Example sentences of "had be able [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that I could achieve results despite the difficulties , and I knew that I had been able to demonstrate the ability to work with people of other countries . |
| 2 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 3 | Only Mr. Smith said he had been able to see the man 's face . |
| 4 | Baxter , for instance , concluded that it was a ‘ fierce movie … a social tract and a revolutionary one ’ , but , although he had been able to explain the way the film had produced such ‘ fierce ’ effects , he was unable , or not sufficiently politically motivated , to explain why it was so ‘ revolutionary ’ as a ‘ social tract ’ . |
| 5 | When Leo told me , I asked if he had been able to give the message . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thanks to the cooperation of the Austrians in Flanders , the French had been able to extend the embarkation area and the main assault would now be delivered second , not first . |
| 8 | Moreover , the head claimed that he had been able to use the appraisal to make a strong case against a proposed reduction of 7.4 staff , in line with cutbacks planned by the LEA due to falling rolls and reductions in spending . |
| 9 | Rudolf Gutmann had been able to leave the running of the family business to his elder brother while he studied prints at the Albertina . |
| 10 | If O'Keeffe had been able to ignore the criticism of her art that Stieglitz 's ideas initiated , she might not have felt compelled to limit her experimentation with abstraction in the early 1920s . |
| 11 | While under Polish rule , the Orthodox hierarchy in the Ukraine had been able to resist the spread of Catholic influence only by adopting many of the methods and some of the ideas characteristic of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 12 | Even if he had been able to fix the damage , Manville had no desire to drive through the streets of Washington with the slogan ‘ Fuck U Honkies ’ sprayed in bright red aerosol paint on the ice-blue hood of the Ford . |
| 13 | A.A. Milne refers to the clump at Gills Lap as being enchanted because no one had been able to count the number of trees , even by tying string round each trunk as it was counted . |
| 14 | ‘ If he had been able to find the doorstep ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Schmidt had been able to hear the chauffeur crashing round in the woods . |
| 17 | It was largely due to her that Fred had been able to secure the leasehold of the cafe and build up trade by extending the seating arrangement and brightening up the fare on offer . |
| 18 | By reducing the size of the warheads , however , the Iraqis had been able to increase the range of some of their Scuds . |
| 19 | He was used to such things , and he had been able to pass the time by fulfilling an old ambition , to read Edward Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the original English . |
| 20 | The MoD said it would comment when it had been able to study the report in full . |
| 21 | When Maggie had hugged Rachel as a child , her small arms stretching wide to reach round her bum , Maggie had been able to feel the solidness of her , the deep-grounded certainty that Rachel exuded . |
| 22 | The fact that he had been able to make the journey across the Atlantic meant that life was at last reverting to its customary shape . |