Example sentences of "been able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's ages since I 've been able to sit on the windowsill . |
| 2 | His achievements as Labour leader have earned him respect and admiration , but he has not been able to appeal beyond the party in which he has made his life . |
| 3 | When you live alone , where you keep your money and how you can reach it , is exceptionally important , because you do not have a live-in partner to borrow from if you have not been able to go to the bank . |
| 4 | I am particularly pleased to have been able to see through the work to stamp out default and to promote high standards in the profession . ’ |
| 5 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 6 | The kid 's not been able to see inside the place . ’ |
| 7 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 8 | But I can assure you that I would n't have lasted five minutes in what , by any standards , is a very tricky and difficult market if I had n't been able to cope with the work . |
| 9 | She had been able to cope with the sale of her house . |
| 10 | He had never been able to take in the fact that she was a fifteen-year-old girl . |
| 11 | This was a bit of a bombshell , but after determined encouragement from the chaplain the party managed to sing several verses of ‘ The Church 's One Foundation ’ , and were , in fact , rather pleased with themselves as several members had been able to put in the tenor and the bass . |
| 12 | At her elbow the candle burned with a steady flame , which was more than that perspiring fool of a doctor with letters after his name had been able to say about the Colonel 's heart . |
| 13 | He had n't been able to sleep on the plane at all . |
| 14 | The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes . |
| 15 | I will certainly look with compassion in days to come on the three hon. Members whom I have not been able to call on the statement , but we have a busy day ahead of us . |
| 16 | As for the borrowing lecture and the lecture on job creation , I have been able to state on a number of occasions when I have been a little more demotic that all independent forecast suggest that under a Labour Government — heaven forbid — borrowing and unemployment would be higher . |
| 17 | They wanted to reopen Sadler 's Wells with Carmen , Aida , Trovatore , operas they had n't been able to perform during the war . |
| 18 | And she might have been able to deal with the situation — might , indeed , have been able to suppress and finally bury such an errant emotion — if it were n't for her present situation . |
| 19 | He had never been able to deal with the outside . |
| 20 | ‘ This means that we have been able to deal with the cash position , which earlier in the year had reached crisis proportions . |
| 21 | One must wonder whether the book trade will continue to have the large and complicated distribution systems which it has been able to support in the past . |
| 22 | So far , with Worrell having turned down the chance , no one had been able to complain about the captaincy ; but by now Worrell had his degree , was very much available , and Alexander himself expected him to be made captain for the tour by England in 1959–60 . |
| 23 | The fines imposed upon the Earl of Lancaster and his followers were remitted , and Lancaster received confirmation of his right to Pontefract , Tutbury and Leicester , which he had not been able to recover after the revolution of 1327 , though he had to lease Pontefract from the queen for £1,000 a year . |
| 24 | M. Dauphin 's books include many on Japan , providing a valuable complement to the more recent publications which we have been able to acquire through the generosity of our anonymous Japanese benefactor . |
| 25 | Moreover , in the British context , the fact that Leninist and Trotskyist groupings are hopelessly divided and have never been able to move beyond a fringe role and secure any kind of solid base in the working class has , as a matter of practical politics , forced them to reconsider their own position and that of the Labour Party . |
| 26 | By then , released from stricter vigilance , Nicholas had been able to move from the Citadel to the house of Katelina , and soon Abul Ismail was permitted to join him . |
| 27 | I was trying to accomplish within my own small person what the malais had n't been able to do to a nation . |
| 28 | All they had ever been able to do in the face of violence was to bend to it . |
| 29 | But the development of the law does seem to show that judges have been able to dispense from the necessity of justification under a public policy test of reasonableness such contracts or provisions of contracts as , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations . |
| 30 | If only he 'd been able to finish off the plastic swan and the weeping-kid picture there 'd have been some hope for the flat . |