Example sentences of "have [been] able [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under different circumstances , she might have been able to appreciate the irony of it . |
| 2 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |
| 3 | The principal limitation of the Sutton Hoo boat was that , in having a keel plank and not a keel , it would not have been able to support a sail ; the slightly smaller boat from Kvalsund ( Norway ) dating to c . |
| 4 | We may not have been able to stop the legislation ( although we did succeed in reducing its scope ) , but we let the world know that we remained strong and proud and shameless . |
| 5 | Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition . |
| 6 | First , had proportional representation been in force in 1983 , then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government on their own and coalition would have forced a moderation of policies . |
| 7 | At auction the purchaser may have been able to acquire the site at a marginal figure above the next highest bid . |
| 8 | But , allowing that he could , he might just about have been able to drive the car to Exeter Sunday night . |
| 9 | According to the board , Ocean Ranger was structurally sound and should have been able to weather the storm . |
| 10 | The latter have lacked an effective spokesman partly because the Polytechnic of Wales which , in other circumstances , might have been able to give a lead , is in an isolated position , being the only one of its kind in the Principality . |
| 11 | I kind of wished I 'd sat behind Verity ; I would n't have seen so much of her — not even a hint of that slim , smooth face , frowning in concentration as she barrelled the big black Beemer towards the next corner — but I would n't have been able to see the speedometer , either . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt it had to be my fault : I was a weak human being with no moral fibre or I would have been able to kick the habit . ’ |
| 13 | I was a lot more worried about you — versatile I might be , but I 'd never have been able to do the make-up you 've created ! ’ |
| 14 | But without somebody to make the bullets he would n't have been able to do the job . |
| 15 | It is something of a puzzle , therefore , that others using the flavour-aversion procedure ( Best , Gemberling , and Johnson 1979 ; Kaye , Swietalski , and Mackintosh 1988 b ) should have been able to demonstrate an attenuation of latent inhibition . |
| 16 | When she retires next month , challenging behaviour will be only one of the many items she will have been able to put a tick next to on the learning difficulties agenda , although she would the last to claim there is nothing left to do . |
| 17 | Flipping back through the pile of loose pages again , he looked for the words he had written about the dark-haired princess who had so generously , so openly acknowledged his presence , the girl to whom ( surely ) he would have been able to tell The Truth . |
| 18 | Tell that story to one of America 's many grumblers about Japanese investment and the response is that Mr Dukakis would never have made that mistake at a Japanese firm : he would have been able to tell the difference . |
| 19 | It was pleasant but had I been blindfolded I would not have been able to tell the difference from its cheaper , non-organic counterpart . |
| 20 | Preferably , you should have been able to read the text over before the lecture . |
| 21 | Although I remember him stepping out of them and the sight of his white pants , I felt it was not seemly to observe too closely : otherwise I should have been able to verify the assertion that his underclothes were American but the rest very English . |
| 22 | It would have been wonderful if we could have been able to afford a gramophone as well . |
| 23 | She had seen no reason to abandon it when she came to Medewich two years ago , even though she might now have been able to afford a car . |
| 24 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
| 25 | We 'd never have been able to build a club up . |
| 26 | He explained : ‘ Gazza would not have been able to function the way he did against Turkey without Paul Ince and Carlton Palmer because they had a very important job to do . |
| 27 | On this and many other occasions he would have been able to gauge the strength of local feeling against Richard 's imperious rule . |
| 28 | In some cases , parents would have been able to keep the child if minimal material assistance had been available . |
| 29 | If only there had been some worked examples , we may have been able to follow the article . |
| 30 | Computer or no computer , I should certainly not have been able to handle the mathematics myself but John Cook likes that sort of thing and using the Mercury computer at Farnborough he was able to map the stresses very close to the tip of a crack which had a finite tip radius . |