Example sentences of "they have [been] able [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that he hopes they 've been able to reasure the people living nearby , and that the travellers will now quietly leave . |
| 2 | They would no doubt have been astonished , of not appalled , if they had been able to glimpse the bitterness and pain of the long voyage that lay ahead , In some ways the exile on which the Shah was now embarked echoed not only his first exile in 1953 , but even that of his father , Reza Shah , before him . |
| 3 | Although the German forces on the eastern front of the European battle-zone , had not reached Moscow , they had been able to reach the outskirts of Stalingrad by August 1942 , in which month Winston Churchill visited Stalin in Moscow . |
| 4 | She said I had not been meant to have this until I was twenty-five , but since I was married and had a child , they had been able to break the trust . |
| 5 | They have been able to oversee the family 's tennis progress , not least that of their other son Mashishka and daughter , Mashona , both of whom receive financial support from the USTA . |
| 6 | One important point is that they have been able to determine the temperature profile of the gas and this shows that , within the central 75 kiloparsecs , the temperature decreases as one goes towards the centre of the cluster . |
| 7 | They have been most successful when they have been able to win the trust and acceptance of the other management board members . |
| 8 | By constantly shuffling alliances with smaller satellite parties they have been able to prevent the left from taking office . |