Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 4 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 5 | Sharing a common cultural and spiritual heritage with a section of the older and more firmly entrenched Liberal Party , Labour simply had not been able to capture sufficient support from the working-class electorate . |
| 6 | But many authorities have either not been able to find suitable sites or have not complied with the ruling . |
| 7 | A number of assessments argue , for example , that the Department of the Environment has traditionally not been able to provide strategic guidance governing the role and direction of the Programme ( National Audit Office , 1986 ; House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts , 1986b ) . |
| 8 | Local government has not been able to supply clean water from surface sources . |
| 9 | As a student on Imperial College 's petroleum geology MSc course , Mujadid had to go on a number of field trips during his year in the UK , but had not been able to buy suitable clothes for the British climate back home in Karachi . |
| 10 | Confronted by her misdemeanours , as he ended 28 years in prison , Mr Mandela observed with dignity that if his wife was in trouble it was because he had not been free to take proper care of her . |
| 11 | Two days later , after Paul had scarcely been able to give full attention to his work , a letter came . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Middle-class ideals of ‘ playing the game ’ have always been alien to rough working-class culture . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | The department had always been able to prosecute unhygienic premises it was just a question of finding them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the past five or six years , foodservice companies have also been able to supply frozen pasta . |
| 27 | Selected industries have also been able to secure extra depreciation in proportion to any increase in the share of exports in their total sales . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | The insurers have also been reluctant to underwrite non-medical forms of care outside the hospital sector . |
| 30 | We have now been able to give immediate answers to fairly complicated questions . |