Example sentences of "been able [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
| 2 | Specialized ornithischians in the late Cretaceous were the remarkable duck-billed dinosaurs , animals that lost their front teeth and had arrays of tiny grinding teeth at the back of the jaw that were continually replaced , like those of the shark , and must have been able to cope with tough vegetation . |
| 3 | Some have received large capital grants to improve their buildings , while others have been able to put to good use the money which would normally be spent on local authority overheads . |
| 4 | ‘ We have been able to put in double glazing and central heating , which makes things more comfortable for William as he does n't get out too much — just for a little bit of gardening when the weather 's better . ’ |
| 5 | By appearing in only the Sunday episode of Not So Much a Programme , Crawford had been able to continue with other work , which included a run of The Striplings on stage at the New Arts Theatre Club , in London . |
| 6 | Had he done that — and this is advice every sensible lawyer would have given to him — he might have been able to return to public life without the long and painful period of atonement to which he was exposed . |
| 7 | So whereas in the past we may have been able to think of single user types and single solutions to meet those users . |
| 8 | The greater the past achievement and the higher the social class , the more status individuals have been able to maintain in old age . |
| 9 | To date the U S have been able to count on diplomatic backing from the Soviet Union over its stand against Iraq ; but Bush would like them to take a more active military role in the Gulf . |
| 10 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |