Example sentences of "been [adj] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government has been quick to say that it plans to continue the economic policies that have pleased businessmen and kept the country relatively well-off . |
| 2 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 3 | In many countries besides America , public opinion strongly supports capital punishment — undeterred by the fact that no criminological study has ever been able to prove that it reduces crime . |
| 4 | The truth is that it is in a dreadful state of disrepair and would have been difficult to sell unless it went to a builder who would demolish it and redevelop the site . |
| 5 | Had heard about it , read about it , but never actually experienced it , nor this violent awareness , and it would have been nice to see if it led anywhere . |