Example sentences of "been [adj] to take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has not been possible to take one building off this list in the intervening six years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Confronted by her misdemeanours , as he ended 28 years in prison , Mr Mandela observed with dignity that if his wife was in trouble it was because he had not been free to take proper care of her . |
| 4 | Eliot had a bad attack of bronchitis in June , which forced him to stay in bed for a week , but in July his sister , Marian , and a niece arrived from America and he went with them to Suffolk for ten days — the first holiday he had been able to take all year . |
| 5 | If they had been able to take more time over preparation of their findings and reasons the difficulties this court has faced on this appeal might not have arisen . |
| 6 | In organisations like the WEA particularly , because of its grass roots and more democratic base , women have been able to take more control of their own learning and become their own teachers and organise themselves in ways which are less controlled by patriarchal infiltration . |
| 7 | When she was fastened to my fist people really scared her , whereas if she had been free she would have been able to take evasive action . |
| 8 | The details have escaped me , but he and Sir Andrew Clarke , as churchwardens ( their memorial tablets are near to each other in the south transept ) had been obliged to take legal action over the advowson — the word which , because of its precision of meaning and its sound , I could see he enjoyed introducing ; but they had evidently covered themselves in so doing , because , the Anglican Church being established , their office carried official responsibilities . |