Example sentences of "been [adj] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he had been right to prevent the earlier attempt to censure Mr Gilbert . |
| 2 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 3 | It may have been preferable to issue the national curriculum documents as guidelines , templates of good practice against which schools could evaluate their extant curriculum rather than requirements that have to be met . |
| 4 | While useful , I think it would have been preferable to show the entire sentence , but you can at least note the identified points and refer to the main body of text later . |
| 5 | A proposal by Milosevic that the congress should continue without the Slovene delegation was rejected , and in the early hours of Jan. 23 Pancevski finally declared that the session , which had been due to adopt the full congress declaration and resolutions on the congress debate , as well as elect a new party leadership , had been adjourned . |
| 6 | There are a number of variables that can be studied now by noting only each occurrence , but not each non-occurrence , since it has not yet been possible to close the possible set of variants [ my emphasis ] . |
| 7 | Given the very recent appointment of a Head of Scientific & Technical Services , it has not been possible to formulate the likely requirements for laboratory computing for 1993/94 , but discussions during 1993 will enable us to plan this work from 1994/95 onwards . |
| 8 | It has been possible to reconstruct the complete instrument , which was a brass portable sundial with a geared calendar that showed the approximate shape of the moon and its age in days and may also have shown its position and that of the sun in the zodiac . |
| 9 | By and large the original exhibition at Edinburgh has been well adapted to the diverse spaces at Kenwood , even if it has not been possible to make the large plaster reconstruction model , lent by the Museo della Civiltà Romana , Rome , still the focal centre of the show . |
| 10 | Following its purification it has been possible to study the biological properties of platelet-derived growth factor . |
| 11 | If it had been possible to study the whole country cheaply and in sufficient detail they would have done so . |
| 12 | It has not been possible to determine the non-submission rate for Scottish geology , but discussions with senior staff suggest that the rate is not as high as in other disciplines . |
| 13 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 14 | Ockleton , true to his academic training , had been disposed to dismiss the very idea of such a connection . |
| 15 | Geologists and civil engineers who have worked for the Cardiff Bay development corporation as consultants have in general been willing to give the green light to the package . |
| 16 | Several states might have been willing to follow the Six in their ventures if Britain had been willing to join . |
| 17 | Whether such a policy would be desirable is debatable , but certainly no society has been willing to divert the necessary resources to the police in order to come anywhere near such a policy . |
| 18 | At least since the early 1970s successive governments have expressed concern about the decline of our inner cities , but no government has been prepared to devote the massive resources which are now required to overcome decades of neglect . |
| 19 | Although many politicians have not been prepared to accept the thorough-going case for pricing advanced above , many have , under the practical pressure of public spending constraints , been prepared to accept charging as a supplementary way of raising revenue , or to see charges increased as the only way of preserving a service . |
| 20 | Even after Anselm 's visit in 1079 , Lanfranc had been prepared to consign the greater part of these local saints and customs to oblivion . |
| 21 | To date , it appears that no developer has been prepared to challenge the accepted policy by retaining and adapting a low-rise factory structure for housing rather than choosing demolition and redevelopment . |
| 22 | It has not been prepared to consider the wider implications of the massive developments planned for Canary Wharf and the Royal Docks , which will have all kinds of consequences for London and the South East . |
| 23 | His decision is now being appealed and Mrs Hamilton was in court yesterday when it was contended that Lord Prosser had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 24 | His decision was appealed and the parents claimed that he had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 25 | The 25-year-old Welshman , who had been favourite to take the Olympic title , has been unbeaten since the Games . |
| 26 | With all the crowding work , and a little pleasure , too , I would have written to you yesterday , only I partly feared to , because I had a proposal to make , which it would have been unseemly to make the apparent cause of my haste . |
| 27 | SHe appreciated Dr Parmedes ' art : it would have been easy to fix the physical changes , but he had possessed the patience and expertise to make those organs as responsive to stimulation as any natural ones . |
| 28 | ‘ I in no way dissent from this reasoning , but I should myself have been content to derive the same conclusion from the broader consideration that Parliament must have intended rating authorities to act in the same high principled way expected by the court of its own officers and not to retain rates paid under a mistake of law , or in paragraph ( a ) upon an erroneous valuation , unless there were , as Parliament must have contemplated there might be in some cases , special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention of the whole or part of the amount overpaid . |
| 29 | Marshall then joined Smith , who had been content to play the minor role while Nicholas was in , but who then hit the day 's second six , also off Fleming , this one a mighty blow over long-on . |
| 30 | Without the knowledge that the grains were initially uniform it would have been impossible to reconstruct the original population ( Krumbein , 1934 ) . |