Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [been] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | ITV have been able to do that because of the monopoly . |
| 2 | It is two thousand years since the Children of Israel have been able to follow the Torah of Israel as citizens in their own land . |
| 3 | Firms in the UK have been able to repurchase their shares since the 1981 Companies Act , provided that shareholders are willing to sell and that the firm is left with some issue of share capital following the repurchase . |
| 4 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 5 | so far this year , packed chlorine sales are running at 160% of budget and ICI Watercare have been able to supply new overseas markets which had previously been impossible because of the shortage of packages . |
| 6 | The Z particle decays into other particles too quickly to be detected directly , but by measuring the speed and direction of the tracks of the particles into which it decays , physicists at CERN have been able to measure the Z particle 's vital statistics with unprecedented accuracy . |
| 7 | in recent years and that efficient councils such as Wandsworth have been able to provide nursery education fully to all the children in their areas ? |
| 8 | The major thrust may have been carried by a dozen committed individuals , but when push has come to shove , the YCCC have been able to fill meeting halls for important confrontations , and have succeeded in getting eight places out of eleven on the City Council filled by candidates representing a broad coalition under the slogan ‘ It 's time for change , ’ which campaigned specifically on local issues . |
| 9 | Since the beginning of last year , police officers in Suffolk have been able to use their computer terminals to plug into both their own ‘ criminal information ’ files , containing facts and suspicions , and to national records held on the PNC . |
| 10 | All of this has been achieved with an inevitability which few batsmen since Bradman have been able to suggest , and in 111 Tests at the end of the 1989–90 series he was just ten runs short of 8,000 at an average of 51 . |