Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] able [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marxists , by contrast , had only been able to build a viable organization , under the name of the British Socialist Party , for a few years before 1914 and were always bedevilled by sectarianism and schism . |
| 2 | Mavra , the first Yugoslavian to row the race , had scarcely been able to contribute a stroke to Oxford 's last few . |
| 3 | He had always been able to defuse a potentially explosive situation . |
| 4 | He found it impossible to believe that he had ever been able to write a book or give a lecture , or advise a government . |
| 5 | He had even been able to specify a little more precisely the area where he thought they were concealed . |
| 6 | Ronni had never been able to hear a bad word against Jeff without leaping instantly to his defence . |