Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [been] [adj] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've hardly been able to sleep because of all this worry . |
| 2 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 3 | But I 've never been able to write except when I was stone cold sober . |
| 4 | But by mentioning them I have perhaps been able to show that when theists talk of God as ‘ both far and near ’ , or as ‘ visible and unseen ’ , they are not guilty of a simple contradiction in terms . |
| 5 | Many Western scholars have thus been prepared to speculate that the military programmes of the 1970s represented Brezhnev 's way of ‘ buying off ’ the Armed Forces establishment for supporting East — West detente . |
| 6 | I suspect that is merely because I have always been able to anticipate when a fox is likely to be present as the result of scent , footprints and tell-tale evidence around the burrow mouth . |
| 7 | Incumbent members of Congress have always been difficult to defeat and too much may have been made of the advantages of incumbency in the modern legislature . |
| 8 | Royal aides have also been stunned to hear that Morton 's new chapter allegedly includes a blow-by-blow account of how Charles 's friends tried to blacken Diana 's name . |
| 9 | In other studies , investigators have often been able to assume that they know the lexical input to commonly occurring vowel variables such as ( e ) and ( a ) and also that all the lexical items counted have the much the same potential for variation ( that is , the direction of variation will be consistent throughout ) . |
| 10 | Many historians of English seem to have shared the attitude of Oliphant ( above ) and have therefore been inclined to think that apparently non-standard linguistic forms are somehow not to be taken seriously as evidence for ‘ genuine ’ linguistic change . |