Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 2 | In other pre-modern cultures , however , it has not been usual to give all this information . |
| 3 | A car accident has scuppered Leeds ' plans to sign Australian Test forward Mark Geyer , who had been due to arrive this week . |
| 4 | ‘ I see Dr Nichols would have been due to cover this evening 's surgery anyway . ’ |
| 5 | As a result , Ter-Petrosyan announced on Aug. 9 that the Soviet authorities had agreed to extend the deadline for militias to surrender ( it had been due to expire that day ) , and that the Armenian authorities should handle disarming the militias without interference by Soviet forces ( reportedly at Bakatin 's request , Gorbachev issued a decree on Aug. 11 from his holiday retreat in the Crimea extending the deadline for two months ) . |
| 6 | That it has been possible to reach this point in the book without describing the signs of insanity in detail is a measure of their universality and of the fact that most of us have an intuitive understanding of their general quality . |
| 7 | It had already been possible to offset some of the costs of industrial building , but this incentive was now extended to commercial projects in the zones . |
| 8 | In 1750 , although Pomeranian Słupsk had already become German Stolp , it had been possible to say that east of a line drawn from the tiny Pomeranian fishing hamlet of Rowy to the hamlet of Tuchomie , Polish or various Slav dialects were spoken . |
| 9 | In the early and high Middle Ages it had been possible to spend many tens and even hundreds of years on erecting a single building , be it a cathedral , a castle , or a town hall . |
| 10 | As far as the capital receipt money goes , not all , it 's not been possible to spend all of that this year because the development of some of these urban traffic calming schemes is actually very complicated and we 've had to re-think some of them . |
| 11 | It has been possible to do this with the help of donations from Crisis — the national charity for single homeless people ; the Law Society ; the London Boroughs Grants C Committee and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection . |
| 13 | As described earlier , it has not been possible to measure this peak in the case of citations to Scottish geological theses , because of the small numbers of individual citations recorded , and because of the large spread of the citation period for these works . |
| 14 | While the excavation was in progress , it may have been possible to wash some of the finds and mark each one with a code indicating where it was found : this task has to be completed before any further work can be done . |
| 15 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 16 | ‘ It might have been possible to prevent this . ’ |
| 17 | Felids produce the greatest amount of damage , so great that it has not been possible to obtain any bone samples large enough to quantify . |
| 18 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 19 | Yeah , s s surely the , the point is , we 'd have booked another comedian if it had been possible to book another comedian at that time , which it obviously was n't . |
| 20 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
| 21 | But the test itself was also changed , from gross indecency , which like the deprave-and-corrupt test had been adequate to catch most child pornography , to the lesser test of indecency , the precise meaning of which is left to the jury to assess according to their own standards of propriety for children or young people . |
| 22 | The situation at the other end must have been grave to warrant such an effort . |
| 23 | The typical witch was now the poor neighbour , begging food and drink from people who had once been willing to acknowledge these claims , but did so no longer . |
| 24 | The Democrats in Congress had then been willing to accept such measures provided that the President would agree to more federal funding for local law enforcement and controls on the sale of assault weapons . |
| 25 | Since the 1970s , however , fewer and fewer black , Asian or Coloured people have been willing to accept this separate and unequal provision . |
| 26 | The judges have been willing to concede little more than that separation agreements , divorce and certain other matrimonial orders which were not available in Hale 's time must have some effect upon the exemption . |
| 27 | As usual , they have been willing to sub-contract these important decisions to the nuclear industry and to stand back , like Pontius Pilate , and say , ’ This has nothing to do with us . ’ |
| 28 | Fears of what might happen in the East are one reason EC leaders have been willing to offer some help to those on the other side of the broken Berlin Wall . |
| 29 | For the last two years , the policy has been prepared to give all these people the chance to live a full and independent life , not in hospitals and institutions , but at home , as part of our community . |
| 30 | The government had never been prepared to take any action without incontrovertible proof of a direct relationship between an industrial process and a particular pattern of death , disease or environmental damage . |