Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results show that it has been possible to set up community-based placements which offer much richer social and material environments than the hospitals they replace . |
| 2 | So we 're very lucky indeed , I say without any hesitation whatever , that Jeffrey has been willing to take on this |
| 3 | It is now widely accepted that the Chairmanship of the Bar is virtually a full time job , and the profession has been fortunate indeed in the people who have been prepared to take on that responsibility and make that commitment . |
| 4 | But this portrait was different from either ; the wonder was that the artist who could produce this disciplined splurge of colour , this technical artistry and imagination , had been content to churn out meretricious souvenirs for the tourist trade . |
| 5 | Dicynodonts , with their small body size , sprawling reptilian gait and lack of internal thermoregulatory mechanisms , would have been unable to migrate over long distances . |
| 6 | This nun had read passages of some sort to them but Millie had been unable to make out half of what she had said . |
| 7 | Many category 2 queries , however , are from people who have done a fair amount of ‘ homework ’ , but have been unable to find out all they would like to know , or wish to check that they have made the right interpretation of their reading . |
| 8 | McLuhan was enormously popular and apparently influential only a few years ago , since when it has been commonplace to pick out many of the absurdities and contradictions of his thought . |
| 9 | In this chapter I have been concerned to draw out some of the implications for socialist politics of the analysis of capitalist property relations given earlier . |
| 10 | Inevitably we have n't held er er they have n't been able to hold up that new members this year and er the main job has been trying to er keep quite a number of the members who were recruited er to the gen following er the general election . |
| 11 | Even pupils as young as 6 have been able to carry out this exercise . |
| 12 | Despite many years of searching , I have not yet been able to track down any other source of reference on the design and construction of valve pre and power amplifiers . |
| 13 | In 1917 a mere fifty-three households had been able to sell off excess grain . |
| 14 | Thanks to a fantastic response by WWF supporters to our African elephant appeal ( over £300,000 in the UK alone so far in 1989 ) , we have been able to step up vital elephant conservation projects on the ground in Africa . |
| 15 | Other Latin American presidents have been able to bring in economic change without the encumbrances of democratic politics . |
| 16 | It has meant we have been able to bring out this newsletter in double quick time . |
| 17 | But perhaps they simply had n't been able to check out all the prints they 'd found anyway . |
| 18 | His son has been able to buy back some of these volumes and his own collection on this subject now numbers around 8,000 volumes . |