Example sentences of "[been] able [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been able to save Antoinette . |
| 2 | Configuring the cables of Shuttle Columbia with well over 7 million possible results is a good example of a problem conventional programing just would not have been able to tackle cost effectively . |
| 3 | Over the years , many children from underprivileged families have been able to join youth clubs from which they were able to go away on camps during the Glasgow fair fortnight and at Easter and in September . |
| 4 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 5 | After I 'd kissed her goodbye I felt pretty happy because not only had I at last had an extremely enjoyable sexual experience , but I 'd also been able to give enjoyment . |
| 6 | You know have you given have you been able to give business to these people because if you have that 'll help me I understand |
| 7 | Struggle as it might , psychology has not been able to remain behaviourist . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fish are likely to have been able to detect sound from a very early period . |
| 10 | He had n't been able to see Topaz for over two weeks because Virginia had been ill . |
| 11 | But unlike Donald White , Hall had been able to turn fantasy into reality . |
| 12 | But , although Marxists have been able to refute empiricist critiques of their theories by these methods , it has been the case that the original theory has come under severe strain , and this is one reason for the development of the modern structuralist approaches . |
| 13 | William Hammond Bartholomew was the Resident Engineer on this broad canal which was usual in that it has been able to resist competition from the railways . |
| 14 | It had , however , been the only one that Rory had been able to lay hold of , and at first he had been proud of it . |
| 15 | These above-average profits depended to some extent on the Company 's political influence in England ; in India it was not powerful enough to control the market , but its charter gave it a monopoly in England which let it push prices up further than would have been practicable if non-members of the Company ( denounced as ‘ interlopers ’ ) had been able to import cotton goods into England freely . |
| 16 | He would have been able to claim credit for ‘ one of the Government 's export achievements ’ , a reference to the 30 per cent of those elected to become Fellows of the Royal Society who now live abroad . |
| 17 | This Bill redefined British nationality , excluding perhaps millions who previously would have been able to claim citizenship . |
| 18 | While copyright cases have been won on the grounds that manuals , and other documents that go with software , have been copied , no one has yet been able to claim copyright on the syntax of a computer language . |
| 19 | As a result ‘ we have not been able to take advantage of what the City has to offer . ’ |
| 20 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 21 | They have been able to take advantage of their good standing internationally to raise funds on fine terms which could then be converted into floating-rate liabilities suitable for financing the acquisition of floating-rate sterling assets . |
| 22 | Examples are Hakea ( Proteaceae , Australia ) and pines that have been able to take hold in the Cape . |
| 23 | He says that his face was badly burnt and it 's meant he has n't been able to take part in his favourite game of rugby . |
| 24 | Recent research has shown that well-informed mothers who have been able to take responsibility for decisions in pregnancy and labour feel happier after the event , even when their plans did n't work out as they had expected them to . |
| 25 | In 1991 , the Company had been able to take action to contain the situation , which enabled a break-even for the year to be returned . |
| 26 | The work which has , since 1986/87 , been achieved by Action for Governors ' Information and Training ( AGIT ) took its beginnings from a very wide range of agencies : both through its original base at the Community Education Development Centre in Coventry and through its non-governmental funding , it has been able to take account of differing interests and pressures . |
| 27 | Er , we have n't , in the scheme that 's before you , we have n't been able to take account of , of all the things that people have said and I think the most significant point about that is the comments that Road should also be covered by this scheme . |
| 28 | In the general run of life in a river this may be very true , but many times I have been able to take barbel and chub from the same swim simply by altering the depth at which my bait is fishing . |
| 29 | I 've never been able to say rum a widow . |
| 30 | Now , through the Friends of Craigmillar organisation , the school has been able to tap business expertise in the city to help it towards a new future . |