Example sentences of "'ve [been] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Y'know that somehow um , perhaps rather like the psychoanalytic notion of repression , something like that , somehow um er they 've been unable to remember for a number of years , possibly even decades , and er something triggers it . |
2 | It 's ages since I 've been able to sit on the windowsill . |
3 | Over the years , we 've taken the risk to increase the court 's costs , erm , where we 've got agreed pro er , principles , and we 've b we 've been able to go to the courts and they 've agreed with us , for instance , standard fees for overloaded vehicle cases , we charge seventy pounds a time . |
4 | In working in years gone by with proprietary applications we 've been able to rely to a large extent on security facilities provided by the operating system . |
5 | We 've been able to lig round the world . ’ |
6 | ‘ We know we have a good product and from what we 've been able to learn about the Japanese I think they will like it , ’ said George . |
7 | And much of the concerns that we 've been able to express about the Health Service has been as a direct consequence of us having information as to for example the numbers of bed closures , as for example the numbers of people on waiting lists . |