Example sentences of "[been] [adj] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The art of management , however , was more than the successful bribery of fifty per cent plus one , if for no other reason than the fact that there was never enough of the articles of bribery to employ it on such a scale , even if the voters had been willing to be so bought . |
| 2 | I should n't have been content to be just a wife . ’ |
| 3 | White and cream and yellow and gold did not to everyone seem entirely appropriate shades to represent the Headleands , whose natural colouring , as in a party game , might have been supposed to be more primary , more violent , more extreme , more robust . |
| 4 | It must have been good to be home . |
| 5 | Outside Scotland and Wales politicians have often been able to be singularly insensitive to local issues . |
| 6 | He had never before been able to be quite so frank with anyone about his innermost feelings . |
| 7 | By contrast , Malaysia has been able to be much more liberal ; there have been no restrictions on the remittance of profits abroad or on the withdrawal of capital through divestment . |
| 8 | They have usually been inclined to be rather self= centred all their lives in a quiet way , and this tendency has become overt and accentuated in old age . |
| 9 | Juliet had been glad of her lie-in , but it would have been nice to be here with him . |