Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For various reasons , it has not been possible to arrange for this sub-committee to meet . |
| 2 | But even if the revolutionaries had been willing to settle for gradual extension of liberty the middle classes appeared powerless to extract major concessions from the Tsarist regime . |
| 3 | It is also important to recognise that indirect costs of issue exist in terms of the final issue price being below what the market might have been willing to pay for all of the shares ( and hence the company receiving less funds than it might otherwise have done ) . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , in the time period available , there was considerable shortfall due either to delays in the courts or the file having been impossible to trace for some reason . |
| 5 | The matter may be looked at retrospectively ( ie where the partner has been unable to work for some defined period or periods ) or prospectively ( where it has become apparent that the partner 's health has failed and will not improve ) . |
| 6 | If the general practitioner pronounces the patient fit enough , he may be able to start driving a car again , although he may need to retake a driving test if he has not been able to drive for several months . |
| 7 | Their speciality was tunes like In Sans Souci — to remind Twenties Berliners of that nice Sunday afternoon tram ride they could take out to Frederick the Great 's summer palace at Potsdam — a trip no West Berliner has been able to take for half a century . |
| 8 | His flight had left New York three hours after the Paris flight and by then the worst of the turbulence over the Atlantic had dissipated so he had been able to sleep for most of the journey . |
| 9 | Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure . |
| 10 | Give my respect and thanks to the author , whose novel is the first English one and the French are only romances now , that I have been able to read for many a day . |
| 11 | The word ‘ appears ’ is used advisedly because , although computers have been used to show that the equation does not work for values of n up to several thousand , no one has yet been able to prove for certain that there is no number n greater than 2 for which suitable values of x , y and z can not be slotted in to produce a valid equation . |
| 12 | But his department has been slow to ask for more cash for environmental aid to the Third World . |
| 13 | The vogue for advocacy and self-advocacy has been slow to develop for older people . |
| 14 | ‘ As Kim Bailey does n't like making up his mind about where his horses run until the last minute , it 's been difficult to try for outside rides . |
| 15 | It proposed a network of under-fives centres throughout the borough — an idea which the under-fives workers had been anxious to promote for some time . |
| 16 | In recent years increases in grant have not been sufficient to compensate for inflationary costs , particularly books and journals , and so additional sources of income have had to be found , in the form of sponsorships , grants , bequests , and donations . |