Example sentences of "have be able [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors , respected journalists who covered the Tampa trial , have been able to weave a convincing and tight narrative out of hundreds of interviews , tape transcripts and other material . |
| 2 | Employees have been able to take a direct stake in the newly privatised companies . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Plagued by years of opencast development in their areas some local communities have been able to mount an effective campaign against individual applications . |
| 6 | With them , chemists have been able to fulfil a long-standing dream : the direct observation of the motions of atoms as molecules undergo reactions . |
| 7 | Once people have been able to make a direct year-on-year comparison of local taxation demands , rather than be confused by a change of system , then councils may well be judged on their own individual performance . |
| 8 | The Italians have mae it work for them because they have been able to inject a comfortable , relaxed mood . |
| 9 | ‘ The owners of the poached ivory stock piles have been able to achieve a virtual monopoly of the international ivory trade , which was used to force prices up by as much as 300 per cent in three years . ’ |
| 10 | At the same time , we have been able to achieve a dramatic reduction in inflation — which , because it is better than the European Community average , means that there are better prospects for exporting firms and for the jobs in them . |
| 11 | Finally , there are a few killers that have been able to develop a special tolerance for certain poisons , enabling them to eat the noxious prey without ill-effects . |
| 12 | Despite the much-needed rain , schools have been able to play a substantial amount of cricket before turning to address the examiners rather than their opponents . |
| 13 | With their recently acquired wealth from the girls ' success , the Polgars have been able to buy an adjoining apartment to make one multi-roomed home . |