Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The constricted room for manoeuvre that Friedman had been prepared to assign to monetary ( but not fiscal ) policy in affecting real variables was repudiated in the writings of the new classical school . |
| 2 | The technologies considered so far have been those relating to large-scale carpentry and items worn or carried , especially brooches and weaponry . |
| 3 | Some have received large capital grants to improve their buildings , while others have been able to put to good use the money which would normally be spent on local authority overheads . |
| 4 | Although tigers have been able to adapt to different climates and landscapes , they have not been able to live alongside people . |
| 5 | Had he done that — and this is advice every sensible lawyer would have given to him — he might have been able to return to public life without the long and painful period of atonement to which he was exposed . |
| 6 | Mrs Currie , an ardent self-publicist , had been keen to return to ministerial office . |