Example sentences of "[vb past] been available " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laing & Cruickshank , Knighton 's stockbrokers , confirmed that funds for the deal had been available . |
| 2 | These courses , designed to provide this information , were over-subscribed and the feedback from those who attended was that they wished they had been available earlier . |
| 3 | How much ‘ Bomber ’ Harris would have appreciated Gulf War laser technology if it had been available then ! |
| 4 | As the world warmed , the global sea level rose at rates which certainly were without parallel in the last 100,000 years , but until this month no continuous record of this sea-level change had been available to scientists . |
| 5 | Compact disc technology had been available for some time , but the quadraphonic experiment had failed and videotape technology was in something of an impasse . |
| 6 | Certainly , an oil engine and clutch system would not have had the same degree of flexibility as a steam engine , even if a suitable engine had been available . |
| 7 | No recording of Jenkins 's music had been available for years before the Thorofon CD , and now this Astrée issue comes onto the market , as if to underline how huge a gap in the recorded repertoire that was . |
| 8 | Judicial officials were given more guidance as to punishment than had been available previously , but a great deal of discretion remained . |
| 9 | If fierce enforcement powers had been available when basic accounting standards were being evolved , compliance with standards might have been more uniform , but the standard of financial reporting would not necessarily have been improved . |
| 10 | In some cases , parents would have been able to keep the child if minimal material assistance had been available . |
| 11 | With this scene of confusion before his eyes it seems unlikely that he would have contemplated using any wheeled transport , even supposing that it had been available for his use at the time . |
| 12 | One 60-year-old campesina woman felt that her life would have been very different if family planning had been available in her day : |
| 13 | Since financial , technical , and geographical constraints did not permit efforts to be made to bring their sewage works into compliance with the existing standards ( even if time had been available ) , the only other means of demonstrably maintaining compliance was for the agencies to change the standards to fit the existing discharges . |
| 14 | If the ‘ at least ’ reading had been available , the sentence would not be odd . |
| 15 | This was an adaptation , evolved by the courts , of the writ of account which from the thirteenth century had been available against bailiffs , factors and receivers . |
| 16 | The evidence shows that this may well be a case in which failures by the ambulance service to provide an ambulance more quickly to a person who was in extremis was a cause of the death which might have been avoidable if the ambulance had been available earlier . |
| 17 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 18 | If that opportunity had been available to him , who knows what difference it might have made ? |
| 19 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 20 | Tech. ) had been available , validated by the National Council for Technological Awards ( NCTA ) , the predecessor of the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) . |
| 21 | ( Prior to World War I , where gas had been available for cooking , it was often used only for the Sunday dinner . ) |
| 22 | He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security . |
| 23 | There is no trace of a lease for the adjacent Coniston Manor at this period though one would have expected the Champions to have taken this " sett " if it had been available . |
| 24 | Until then , income tax relief had been available on the premiums paid on the majority of life assurance policies . |
| 25 | He came back a day or two later and they told him it definitely had been available before nineteen thirty-nine . ’ |
| 26 | If the information had been available in the form requested , I should have given it . |
| 27 | If the will had been there and secure accommodation and prison accommodation had been available , I suggest that magistrates would have applied the law in the way that was intended when that legislation was passed . |
| 28 | The Commission voted on Nov. 26 , 1990 , to suspend the four-year-old subsidy system which had been available to EC shipbuilders to encourage them to compete against cheaper products from South Korea or Japan . |
| 29 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 30 | A generation later the political opportunities which had been available in the middle of the fifth century were closed , but equally the restrictions of the 470s had lifted . |