Example sentences of "have been [adj] [verb] these [noun] " in BNC.

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1	The historian , Minois , has delved systematically into the changing status of older people in history , and he has been able to link these changes to the dominant social ideas and circumstances of the time .
2	It has been vital to let these colleagues know what will be required of students in the additional assessment , so that they can plan their course work accordingly .
3	Any of them might have died prematurely , he might not have been able to earn these sums , and other misfortunes might have occurred so allowance must be made for this .
4	Mr Prescott said yesterday : ‘ For the authority not to have been able to answer these sorts of questions , without going to Eurotunnel at that late stage when rolling stock had already been ordered , is totally unacceptable . ’
5	A year or so later I chanced to meet him and he acknowledged that this was just criticism , but that he had been obliged to insert these names so that his book would look like a truly up-to-date , intouch work of scholarship .
6	Because , for the past twelve months , Myra had been able to remember these facts , she could not understand why her difficulties about relationships still persisted .
7	He was glad , at any rate , that he had been able to arrange these weeks at ‘ La Felicità ’ , a summer which they would always remember .
8	In some cases , particularly the non.engineering companies , the extent to which they had been able to shape these plans as opposed merely to sanction them was very limited indeed .
9	Li and her coworkers have been able to locate these sequence variations ( which geneticists have identified in amino acid sequences as important for target specificity ) in the three-dimensional structure of the toxin , and found them to be concentrated in the β sheets of domain II .
10	However , very few have been able to maintain these positions : only 5 in the top 50 and 3 in the top 10 .

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