Example sentences of "[verb] been able [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Even though it has been able to obtain relief for £16 billion-worth of foreign debt as a result of its participation in the multinational force , it still has £35 billion of remaining debt to contend with and an annual revenue shortfall of around £7 caused by the conflict . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This time she contacted me again after just a week to say that , for the first time , she had been able to buy clothes for her children in a certain famous store rather than having to rely on ordering from a mail order firm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This paper presents an improvement of this technique in which we have used voluntary , respiratory gating and have been able to obtain images for periods of 2–3 hours . |
| 7 | Some have been able to introduce charges for particular tourist attractions , but a large number still depend on the good will of visitors , too many of whom studiously ignore the collection box . |