Example sentences of "been able [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination . |
| 2 | She had even been able to effect an imperfect superimposition of her reality upon his own . |
| 3 | It was a full day later before Schmidt had been able to form a coherent sentence , though his words still came in a low , wracked whisper . |
| 4 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 5 | There were wall-sized French windows through which she would in daylight have been able to see the back garden . |
| 6 | Shanti has always been able to see the funny side of a situation . |
| 7 | In the US on the other hand , firms have not been able to realize the potential advantage of overlapping . |
| 8 | Paul Lexington Productions had been able to mount The Hooded Owl at Taunton , but had been unable to bring it into town without Bobby Anscombe 's support . |
| 9 | Plagued by years of opencast development in their areas some local communities have been able to mount an effective campaign against individual applications . |
| 10 | The office gossip had been quite useful in reassuring him on that point , and he had been able to view the uncomfortable ride in the lift with them in an encouraging new light . |
| 11 | While the power of dismissal may be of limited use , where the government has been able to appoint a new rail chairman , it has the opportunity to shape a management team more in tune with its thinking . |
| 12 | In a strange way , she felt cleansed , as though she 'd been able to strip the dark places away from her soul . |
| 13 | INTERNATIONAL terrorism has been able to exploit the natural competitiveness and secretiveness of Europe 's counter-intelligence organisations . |
| 14 | Employees have been able to take a direct stake in the newly privatised companies . |
| 15 | But we both know , although I have n't said it , that the consequence of her unfaithfulness is that I have been able to take the high ground . |
| 16 | He would not have been able to put a precise age on the skeleton . |
| 17 | Widespread dissatisfaction over the quality of justice might eventually be to the king 's loss , although rulers may often have been able to manipulate the legal system to their advantage with relative impunity . |
| 18 | where Trevor Rowley has been able to explain the many routeways as a reflection of the straker routes of commoners herding animals from lowland settlements to upland pastures . |
| 19 | With the consequence of the Falklands still exerting its potency , the economy showing distinct signs of recuperation , and inflation falling fast , Mrs Thatcher had been able to call an early election . |
| 20 | Using its patented Low Pressure Casting technique , Cosworth has been able to incorporate a high degree of stiffness in the compact unit . |
| 21 | By this stage the airlines had been able to restore a basic service by recruiting new pilots , persuading pilots out of retirement and persuading some to return to work on individual contracts . |
| 22 | A further major problem is that voluntary organizations have hitherto been able to choose the particular client group within the field on which they wish to focus . |
| 23 | ( Had ninth-century rulers really been able to collect a generalised army-tax , their armies would surely have been very much larger than they clearly were . ) |
| 24 | This involvement has meant that the school has been able to open a new technology suite — pictured above . |
| 25 | Despite his subsequent recovery to something like his old form , Fox has n't quite been able to stop the shrinking process . |
| 26 | It is the first time the players have been able to field a large cast of nine for a serious production , with some 20 members involved in all . |
| 27 | Some of the more recent studies , which have been able to use a longer data set , have found evidence that the absolute size of mispricings has declined over time . |
| 28 | seventy five degrees I mean , and it was really cold and when we got back it was cold as well , it 's only the last four weeks that we 've been able to use the outdoor pools again |
| 29 | Had the county council been able to use the final figures , the dwelling requirements at the end of the projection period would have been somewhat lower than the figure that we have produced . |
| 30 | Older women are less likely to remarry than younger women ( Ermisch , 1989 , pp. 50–1 ) and are consequently at risk of poverty in old age unless , unusually , they have been able to generate an adequate income through their own resources . |