Sentence examples for had been agreeable from inspiring English sources

Plenty of merchant vessels wouldn't accept female passengers at all; she'd been lucky that the captain of the freighter West Kebar had been agreeable.

Our divorce had been agreeable and final.

But, she said, he has been agreeable.

But while Obama has been agreeable in mentioning the unions in his speeches, the president struggles with making the promises come true.

In the foreword to the first Bedside he opined: "The task of selecting from a year's issues of the Manchester Guardian has been agreeable but difficult; there was so much material with equal claim".

"I think there were options put forth to the administration and school board that would have been agreeable and not costly to the district, but they chose not to go that route," he said.

Subjects will have completed at least 80% of all recommended glucose meters readings and will have been agreeable to intensification of diabetes according to the treatment algorithm.

"Had Moses been agreeable, the world would have never been turned on its head and the Dodgers would not have left," says Michael Shapiro, author of The Last Good Season, which chronicles the summer of 1957 in Brooklyn.

He had been pursuing an agreeable career as an upper-class architect of schools and mansions when, in 1922, he won an international competition for a new headquarters for The Chicago Tribune.

If these youths had been docile, compliant, agreeable, there would have been no debate.

Until this point, setting crossword puzzles had been for him an agreeable pastime.