Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives have for too long been able to exploit simple ideas about choices and markets . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , in accordance with the regulations of the shipping company , they had all been obliged to buy return tickets . |
| 3 | Two days later , after Paul had scarcely been able to give full attention to his work , a letter came . |
| 4 | The Soviet media noted that this meeting would also raise the issue of American military bases in the Philippines ‘ where it is supposed the Pentagon has already been able to site nuclear weapons secretly ’ . |
| 5 | Whilst the polymerase chain reaction now enables generation of large amounts of DNA , it has still been difficult to synthesize total cDNA from small numbers of cells in a form which can be amplified by PCR . |
| 6 | Hollywood had always been prepared to use social realism in the service of melodrama and especially in the service of making prestige films out of literary classics and this practice remained in evidence during these years and led to such notable films as An American Tragedy and All Quiet on the Western Front . |
| 7 | The Church Commissioners , however , had always been reluctant to vest urban churches in the Redundant Churches Fund and made it absolutely clear that they considered All Souls would impose an impossible burden on the resources of the Fund . |
| 8 | Overall , these families frequently tend to be placed in the worst housing or on the worst estates , partly perhaps because of their inability to pay higher rents , and partly because local authorities have always been inclined to allocate poor people and slum dwellers to particular estates ( Gray , 1979 ) . |
| 9 | Middle-class ideals of ‘ playing the game ’ have always been alien to rough working-class culture . |
| 10 | In spite of the considerable popularity of Tough 's framework , she has not subjected the specific strategies to a rigorous examination of reliability and , when other researchers have attempted to replicate her work , they have not always been able to demonstrate good agreement between different observers ( Wells 1979 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ We have the best trained , the best qualified law enforcement officers that can be found in any major city in the world so we have always been able to maintain solid protection for our community without having the comparable size departments that other cities have , ’ he says . |
| 12 | The department had always been able to prosecute unhygienic premises it was just a question of finding them . |
| 13 | Throughout the years , ICI chemists have always been able to make good use of the profusion of basic materials available on Teesside to make more complex organic compounds . |
| 14 | It would not disturb you , would it , if I had to bear our child in this hole , among this dirt — I have hardly been able to keep clean over the time we 've lived here , with only a jug of cold water — and the unbearable food , and hardly enough light to see by when I have to read your script aloud to you in the evening , and then give you your pleasure in the bed every night with that woman listening through the wall ? |
| 15 | Is that not surprising because the Chancellor has repeatedly been eager to make precise pledges of cuts in income tax to 20p in the medium term ? |
| 16 | Pending the re-establishment of Chinese sovereignty in Hong Kong , the Society has also been anxious to develop good relations with Chinese counterparts , and welcomed a high level delegation of Chinese lawyers to the UK last May . |
| 17 | In addition to the substantial delivery of Government programmes , the Agency has also been able to deploy earned surpluses on a range of innovative projects from training to business development financing . |
| 18 | The Museum of Modern Art has also been able to give contemporary photographic artists catalogues published to a standard possibly even higher than that achieved with the Atget volumes : see , for example , NICHOLAS NIXON : PICTURES OF PEOPLE , printed in tritone by Franklin Graphics , Providence , Rhode Island , 1988 . |
| 19 | But TV has also been able to accommodate new forms like — Monty Python ‘ s Flying Circus ( 1969–74 ) , where narrative logic is a joke or non-existent . |
| 20 | I have also been able to make significant extra resources available to safeguard the environment , on which expenditure is planned to increase by more than 27 per cent . |
| 21 | In the past five or six years , foodservice companies have also been able to supply frozen pasta . |
| 22 | Selected industries have also been able to secure extra depreciation in proportion to any increase in the share of exports in their total sales . |
| 23 | ‘ We have also been able to provide dedicated space for Daniel Rodgers , our Mortgage Consultant , who is able to offer free and professional advice on all financial aspects of a move . |
| 24 | The insurers have also been reluctant to underwrite non-medical forms of care outside the hospital sector . |
| 25 | We have now been able to give immediate answers to fairly complicated questions . |
| 26 | The insidious growth of statutory planning restrictions , since the.first real control was introduced forty years ago , has increased with such rapidity that it has often been difficult to keep abreast of new legislation without concentrating exclusively on this aspect of the development process . |
| 27 | Scientists have even been able to distinguish tiny parasitic insects , mites , clinging to the legs of the bigger ones . |
| 28 | Modern archaeologists have at least been able to conjecture possible rational motives for the primitive societies to have devoted enormous efforts to building pyramids or stonehenges , such as their use as astronomical or more likely astrological observatories . |
| 29 | The technology for these new industries was always backward by world standards , and it has never been possible to find secure markets outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 30 | He says that he has never been afraid to put national and constituency issues ahead of the party when appropriate . |