Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme has been particularly helpful where the mentor has been able to support the work of the school with pupils at risk and/or with special educational needs . |
| 2 | It is only recently that Champagne has been able to boast as many as seventeen grands crus . |
| 3 | As well as — like Hewlett-Packard Co — embracing open systems wholeheartedly , ICL has been able , like HP , to convince users that its proprietary machines are open systems . |
| 4 | But Maria has been able to glean that they were forced to flee their home town in northern Bosnia when their house was occupied by enemy Serbs . |
| 5 | During the last few years the Printing Division has been able to offer photosetting via its P.E . |
| 6 | With positive support from her colleagues , Lynda has been able to successfully combine a career with bringing up a family . |
| 7 | However , the second language literature has been able to go beyond this simple finding and attributes the age effect to the various underlying variables of motivation , as well as degree of contact . |
| 8 | It is already widely acknowledged that Germany has been able to augment her political weight , especially in European affairs , by pursuing her interests under the European banner . |
| 9 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |
| 10 | Over the past 15 years Allied Colloids has been able to achieve compound annual growth rates of over 20pc . |
| 11 | This is an interesting plan and I am delighted that my Department has been able to offer a grant to help it . |
| 12 | It is the first time the industry has been able to purchase cover for long-term environmental damage although it does buy insurance against sudden pollution incidents or claims from disasters such as explosions . |
| 13 | But the Ellesmere Port complex has been able to ride out the recession by exporting its highly-successful Astra/Opel range , particularly to the buoyant German economy . |
| 14 | It will become clear on June 5th whether the president has been able to exploit this split . |
| 15 | Brian Roberts has been able to show how the Forest of Arden in north Warwickshire was systematically settled in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , with hundreds of new moated farmsteads being created . |
| 16 | Who but Gibbons has been able to reproduce in wood the precise bloom of a ripening peach , the very texture and mass of a bursting apricot , or the exact weight and trajectory of an ear of corn on its stem ? |
| 17 | Voting patterns are a complex business and my colleague , Keith Britto , who is an expert in these things , tells me that no research has been able to disentangle all the strands of voting motivation , a crucial point to remember in planning a campaign ! |
| 18 | Mainstreaming is a very good example of where our policies push beyond what our research has been able to show . |
| 19 | As a result of this the club has been able to run at a constant level of activity . |
| 20 | In Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby there was no doubt that the defendant knew of business secrets but the court decided they were far too complicated and detailed for the defendant to have been able to carry them away in his head and as there was no evidence of actual copying , this part of the claim failed . |
| 21 | One of these writers , the poet Hölderlin , claims our particular attention here for the new attitude towards Germany that his commitment to the Greek ideal entails — and also for his intuitive awareness of a greater complexity underlying " the spirit of Greece " than Winckelmann or his immediate successors had been able to recognize . |
| 22 | A report published in April by the New York-based Carnegie Endowment for Peace claimed that Argentina , Brazil , India , Iraq and Pakistan had been able to circumvent international regulations and build or expand nuclear weapons capabilities . |
| 23 | In his last visit to North Korea , Ceauşescu had been able to see the thirty-storey concrete pyramid in the centre of Pyongyang which had been built under the inspiration of the Dear Leader , Kim Jong Il ( albeit from an original idea by George Orwell ) . |
| 24 | The cell , although uncomfortable and oppressive , made for a haven of quiet and stillness within which Bernice had been able to calm and draw out the traumatized girl . |
| 25 | It was around Lake Baikal that the woman in pink had been able to share in her daughter 's delight with the journey . |
| 26 | More recently , in Mary Tudor 's reign , the family had come into favour at court because of its reputation for piety and loyalty to the Church , and Sir Gregory had been able to build a new house on the site of the old . |
| 27 | Prior to July 1 Soviet Jews had been able to leave for Israel with only a visa . |
| 28 | Without actually giving her the details — and still keeping back the crucial fact of Christine 's death , which would have changed the tone of their conversations completely — Lucy had been able to give Josie some idea of her home situation and of the problems that she 'd caused with actions that she 'd felt to be right . |
| 29 | No reassurances from Scott had been able to lull his twenty-five-year-old wife 's anxiety about her fading beauty . |
| 30 | Ann had been able to show more tolerance towards Susan . |