Example sentences of "been able [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents have to trust that what they have taught in earlier years and , ideally , been able to demonstrate in their own relationship together , will have provided patterns to be followed . |
| 2 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 3 | Central to child-rearing from the cultural point of view , as we have seen , is that by the time he is six or seven the child should have been able to recapitulate within his own personal psychological development the development history of his culture . |
| 4 | SINCE 1991 , unit trust managers have been able to move from their traditional equity gilt and money market funds into the worlds of property and the mysteriously named warrants , futures and options . |
| 5 | He had wondered , also , how much the mediciner had been able to guess about his own mind and nature . |
| 6 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 7 | Yet the image had addressed Jaq as if some outside force had been able to intervene in his holy trance through the agency of that Discordia card , hacking into the pack . |