Example sentences of "been [adj] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has , however , been pleasant to do business with you and I am sure you and your little family will be extremely happy at ‘ La Felicit à'; . |
| 2 | The Conservatives have been right to warn voters that a Labour government would mean far higher tax increases than John Smith currently promises — either that , or Labour would not be able to improve benefits and services in the way people want . |
| 3 | He thought they had unquestionably been right to believe Nuadu and Tealtaoich and the others . |
| 4 | As she looked at her niece 's radiant face , Louise felt sure that she had been right to approach Monsieur de Levantiére . |
| 5 | Shildon had been rash to promise tranquillity : hundreds of tourists sat on the steps of the cathedral , hundreds more flowed in and out of the doors . |
| 6 | Almost two years of acrimonious disputes between the Indian Government and the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Industrie came to an end on Jan. 11 , when a court of inquiry in New Delhi ruled that the crash of an Indian Airlines A-320 Airbus in February 1990 , in which 92 people had died , had been due to pilot error , and not to technical failure , as the Indian authorities had maintained [ see p. 37268 ] . |
| 7 | The team headed by Michel Desgranges which had been due to leave Iraq on March 13 , postponed its departure after the discovery of hundreds of additional leaking chemical rockets . |
| 8 | Gabrielle Fisher , 21 , had been due to leave Southport yesterday at the end of an 18-day visit to England . |
| 9 | The meeting had been due to clarify agreements in the Economic Community , prior to ratification by the constituent republics ' Supreme Soviets . |
| 10 | ( The queen had been due to visit Iran in the royal yacht Britannia in January 1979 ; at the last minute the trip was cancelled because of the turmoil in Iran and the queen sent the Shah a gracious and sympathetic handwritten note of regret ) . |
| 11 | Dalgliesh was interested that the Director had chosen to wait with the rest of the staff in the library , and wondered whether this was intended to demonstrate solidarity with his colleagues , or was , tactful admission that his office was one of the rooms which had been due to receive Mrs. Bidwell 's early morning attention , and must , therefore , be of special interest to Dalgliesh . |
| 12 | Members of the University Lecturers Association had been due to take part in a second one-day strike at the university in Aberdeen . |
| 13 | Talks between Iraq and Kuwait which had originally been due to take place in Jeddah on July 28-29 were delayed until July 31 . |
| 14 | Three controversial referendums on abortion which had been due to take place on Dec. 3 [ see p. 39160 ] were brought forward to Nov. 25 to coincide with the general election . |
| 15 | He was replaced in an acting capacity by his arch-rival , the anti-communist Croatian Stipe Mesic , who had hitherto been Deputy President and who had anyway been due to succeed Jovic in May 1991 . |
| 16 | The prosecution say that following an armed robbery at a building society near Gloucester in 1988 White had been due to give evidence against Gardiner and implicating him in the crime . |
| 17 | White was stabbed and dumped in a lake because he had been due to give evidence against Gardiner in a robbery trial . |
| 18 | The delegation had been due to meet South Korean dissidents to discuss their possible attendance at a North Korean pro-unification rally due to be held at Panmunjom on Aug. 15 . |
| 19 | A murmur crossed the room like a wave when Blanche revealed she was seeking a man called Mr Kennedy , who had been due to meet Nicola Sharpe at nine o'clock on the night she was murdered . |
| 20 | Although John Wright had been due to send Hanns a letter about the technical requirements , it was actually the choreographer who wrote again in late September , suggesting simplification to avoid distracting the eye and adding ‘ You must design several feet around the back cloth , otherwise what you have designed will be cut off by the back legs and flies ’ . |
| 21 | In part this has been due to budget reformers making overenthusiastic claims for overelaborate systems . |
| 22 | As I watched her I thought Granny would have been proud if she 'd been alive to see Mary now . |
| 23 | However , in July 1986 Guinness announced that ‘ it has not been possible to reach agreement with Sir Thomas Risk and he will not now be invited to join the board , nor therefore be nominated as Non-Executive Chairman ’ . |
| 24 | Since the early 1970s , however , it has been possible to collect bile samples at either endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography or percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography and a few small series of patients have been reported with good diagnostic yields and no falsely positive results . |
| 25 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |
| 26 | Whereas it would have been possible to ask Harriet Finlay Johnson , ‘ What are you teaching this lesson ? ’ and the answer could easily be something like , ‘ The Spanish Armada ’ , one could not expect to be given an equivalent answer from Peter Slade , Brian Way or the Speech and Drama teachers . |
| 27 | The modern convergence , which the contemporary sociology of culture embodies , is in fact an attempt to rework , from a particular set of interests , those general social and sociological ideas within which it has been possible to see communication , language and art as marginal and peripheral , or as at best secondary and derived social processes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But ever since Otto Schott invented thermometer glass it 's been possible to measure temperature differences to an accuracy of one thousandth of a degree Celsius . |
| 30 | These eight tasks of audit can not be carried out in smaller schools — schools in which it has never been possible to develop subject differentiation to the same degree as in larger schools . |