Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Haslam has been obliged to cut back on business travel , he and his wife still do a fair amount of travel for personal pleasure and grab as many long weekends as they can to get away from it all , making flying visits to the Mediterranean . |
| 2 | The most comprehensive research has been that carried out by Dingwall , Eekelaar and Murray ( 1983 ) , based on participant observation in social services departments , NHS child health services and casualty departments , and juvenile courts . |
| 3 | Even without insisting on the strict claim that inference from fact to value is logically inadmissible , a claim which since Hume has been a commonplace , and after G. E. Moore 's analysis of the Naturalistic Fallacy was for some time an orthodoxy , it has been convenient to stay out of range of standard criticisms by showing that we can get along well enough without resorting to this kind of inference . |
| 4 | Even in the ‘ settled ’ areas , where the US and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been active , efforts to eradicate opium by crop substitution have run into trouble for one simple reason : in 30 years , no one has been able to come up with a product as lucrative and easy to market as opium . |
| 5 | To date , no one has been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation . |
| 6 | Whereas the bulk of America has been slow to latch on to new British acts , the more European attitudes of New York welcomed anything English and wielding a guitar . |
| 7 | The idea of using this matter-of-fact item as a matter of fashion has been slow to catch on in this country . |
| 8 | One resident says he has been unable to get out of his back garden after a lorry backed into the wall and buckled the gate . |
| 9 | In the five months of the review Mr Heseltine has been unable to come up with , as Labour pointed out , a single extra tonne of coal in terms of orders . |
| 10 | These fry are ready to move on to a larger tank . |
| 11 | He 'd been lucky to get off with a year for that . |
| 12 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 13 | Her early education had been poor because of the misconception amongst her teachers that language ability and intelligence were somehow different facts of a single concept , and it was only in later life , with the help of her husband , that she 'd been able to make up on the intellectual deprivation of those early years . |
| 14 | I 'd got the riding gear from Duncan , but he 'd been unable to come up with a red helmet with black visor . |
| 15 | This was so demonstrably unfair that SAVE was able to hit back by seeking leave for judicial review . |
| 16 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
| 17 | Whether he would have come to that conclusion if the building was betting-shop is an interesting thought , but we ‘ ve been delighted to go along with his judgement . |
| 18 | The ability of this young quartet to present two works from such different worlds so convincingly , led one to expect that Dvorak 's American quartet would be a powerful experience ; but what might have been hot-blooded came over as an indoor gypsy — more pretty than potent . |
| 19 | It would have been easier to set off in the daylight but it was n't possible . |
| 20 | Because that would mean that he would have been able to hold on to his job . |
| 21 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 22 | The didactic works which the nobility used to educate their children stressed , in the words of the Burgundian , Ghillebert de Lannoy ( himself a nobleman ) , the obligation to ‘ expose themselves to death for the good of the land ’ , an ideal which many would have been able to read about in the works of classical authors such as Valerius Maximus , Livy and Caesar . |
| 23 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 24 | I mean , when we was in opposition , if er , if we had a Westminster crisis in Lincolnshire and it suddenly kicked all the conservatives off , we would have been able to come up with an alternative budget to manage this county . |
| 25 | ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning . |
| 26 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 27 | They must have been Steen coming back on the Saturday . |
| 28 | It would have been irresponsible to go on with them having lost so much weight . ’ |
| 29 | We could have been 20 points up in the opening 10 minutes , but they had the pace and the organisation to shut us out . |
| 30 | I like the beds changed often , which I find is hard to keep up with , because of drying the washing . |