Example sentences of "have be [adj] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , since roubles are inconvertible , the National Bank has been obliged to issue dinars to Yugoslav exporters in exchange for blocked roubles , and thus to increase the domestic money supply . |
| 2 | As a result it has been possible to provide donations to both RAFA and other local charitable causes until a major RAFA project in the area is identified . |
| 3 | Lang , in fact , has been able to raise culture to a position of preeminence within French politics . |
| 4 | A bandage round his head , a cup of tea in his blunt hands , he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe , and Nathan could understand exactly why he 'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he 'd been given a room on the first floor , one of the large ones , for nothing . |
| 5 | Cocteau would have been delighted to introduce Modigliani to his world of the new couturiers and of Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes , to help him to become a fashionable and popular portrait painter . |
| 6 | Without the resources of the Oxford department in the following three years , Florey would probably not have been able to bring penicillin to clinical fruition . |
| 7 | If it had done so , and had included among such grounds the case where the company had been formed with the purpose of defrauding creditors … the Spanish court would have been entitled to give effect to it notwithstanding the terms of the Directive ( p 32 ) . |
| 8 | We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit . |
| 9 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 10 | Before the emancipation of the serfs the government had been reluctant to return peasants to the countryside after they had served in the army , for fear that they would use their training to promote discontent . |
| 11 | He would never have achieved his popularity , if he had been unable to give expression to the existing moods of his audience . |
| 12 | I received twenty completed record sheets — and a load of very apologetic letters explaining why the remainder had been unable to do justice to the trial . |
| 13 | Most Marxist thinkers , beginning with Marx and Engels themselves , have been inclined to relegate nationalism to a position of minor importance by comparison with class struggles ; to dismiss it ( as did Rosa Luxemburg in her statements on the Polish independence movement ) as a refuge of the petty bourgeoisie , which would lose its political significance with the growth of the socialist movement ; to connect it particularly with the development of capitalism in its imperialist stage ; or , finally , to attribute a limited value to national struggles against imperialism , as an adjunct of the fundamental conflict between the working class and the bourgeoisie . |
| 14 | Being one of those select few companies that have been able to secure access to initial deliveries of Texas Instruments Inc 's SuperSparc RISC processor ( UX No 384 ) , it is understood that ICL last week totted up numbers required by its various departments and placed its order with TI for the part , which will feature in the DRS6000 workstation range from the fourth quarter . |
| 15 | Consequently , in the civil war , the Serbs and the Croats have generally controlled the roads and have been able to cut supplies to the Muslims at will . |
| 16 | ‘ They have been ready to give priority to their own interests regardless of the effects on other unions and particularly on the Welsh Rugby Union . ’ |
| 17 | Excavators have been reluctant to put dates to their finds and one can understand why . |