Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [be] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 2 | He wonders if she has told her husband the docteur — he imagines a cheerful Depardieu in a white coat — of the steps she has been obliged to take in order to get the part . |
| 3 | Having invented the phrase ‘ Sea Use Planning ’ she has been delighted to note the emergence of departments of Sea Use Planning at some ( not U. K. ! ) universities . |
| 4 | She has been grateful to leave the arguing to him and has rewarded him with gold medal after gold medal . |
| 5 | She has been willing to look outside the civil service for advice on policy — to various ‘ think tanks ’ and individuals who have often reinforced her scepticism about traditional departmental policy views . |
| 6 | So far she has been unable to give police a description of her attacker . |
| 7 | Mia , 47 , is said to be so devastated by her daughter 's affair with Allen she has been unable to eat . |
| 8 | In 1991 , she won more matches on clay than any other player , ( 24 ) , and she had the fourth best win/loss record of all players on that surface , ( 24/3 ) , with a percentage success rate of .904 , although it should be noted that , in 7 attempts to date , she has been unable to overcome the dominant hitting of Seles . |
| 9 | She has been unable to get an academic job since ; she did not get a job in science until 1990 , when she was hired by Genetics Institute , a biotechnology company founded by one of her few supporters , Mark Ptashne of Harvard . |
| 10 | Section 5 of the Business Names Act 1985 provides that where a person fails to comply with the requirement set out in s. 5 and thereafter seeks to enforce a business contract with a party in default by means of a court action , ( a ) if the person in default can establish that he or she has a claim against the proprietor , which due to the proprietor 's failure to comply with s. 5 he or she has been unable to pursue , or ( b ) if a breach by the proprietor of s. 5 has caused the person in default some financial loss , the proprietor 's claim shall be dismissed , unless it is ‘ just and equitable ’ that the proprietor should be allowed to continue the action . |
| 11 | Since her torture she has been unable to stand or walk . |
| 12 | Thus , she has been able to move steadily rightwards while maintaining old links . |
| 13 | If they go away with a positive decision against starting up a tourism enterprise , Sue feels she has been able to help them avoid an expensive mistake . |
| 14 | But she has been able to provide brief descriptions and detectives are now looking for three youths . |
| 15 | Occasionally she has been able to get away and walk the streets of London , or slip out with friends without looking over her shoulder . |
| 16 | She and her husband are members of the National Trust and when visiting stately homes they often come across portraits of those she refers to as ‘ my people ’ ; she has been able to obtain copies some of them . |
| 17 | With the $10,000 she received from the sale of Let Me Speak , her harrowing account of life and political struggle at Siglo XX , she has been able to buy a two-roomed house in the poor neighbourhood of Hayrakasa . |
| 18 | Already she has been able to list such exotic places as Mucky Lonnin , Swinsy and Never ‘ Eed Em Blacksmith . |
| 19 | A defect in the gene which produces a vital enzyme , ADA , means that any infection she contracts is likely to prove fatal . |
| 20 | She 's not been taking them , she 's been able to sleep at night but she 's sleeping all day and all . |
| 21 | They say she 's been able to transplant a gorilla 's brain into a human body , or maybe a human brain into a gorilla 's body . ’ |
| 22 | Luckily she 's been able to come through it . |
| 23 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 24 | When a person is seeking employment , council membership and the demands it imposes are unlikely to recommend him or her to prospective employers . |
| 25 | Lee said earlier this week that a consortium he heads was ready to invest millions in City in return for a seat on the board . |
| 26 | Only a few days before his state 's 40th anniversary celebrations , he has been obliged to accept a deal permitting several thousand of its citizens to flee to the capitalist Federal Republic . |
| 27 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 28 | The extent of these learning skills has been ingeniously studied for individual bees by Randolf Menzel in Berlin over the past two decades , and he has been able to clarify the role of many regions of the bee 's head ganglion . |
| 29 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 30 | 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 . |