Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [been] able [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliette Drouet , the mistress of Victor Hugo and his companion on his travels , was put out that a woman other than herself should have been able to make this ‘ difficult ascent ’ and claimed that the Duchess had needed the services of thirty guides and helpers ; less jaundiced reporters speak only of two . |
| 2 | To assist in the establishment of such a regime the bureaucracy must have been able to conserve most of its resources intact through the preceding liberal-democratic regime . |
| 3 | She must have been able to lick enough water to keep alive , ’ he said . |
| 4 | You must have been able to squeeze half an hour sometime or other . |
| 5 | Oh , you must have been able to squeeze half an hour some time or other . |
| 6 | If we had stuck with the fair rates policy the vast majority of people in Britain might have been able to bear that price and public services would remain public services , not sacrificial lambs on the altar of the ideology of the Conservative party . |
| 7 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 8 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 9 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 10 | In other words designers at DEC may have been able to make some process concessions to achieve a record clock rate that might not be appropriate for other architectures . |
| 11 | He has been taking medication and it is believed he may have been able to hide some of the drug . |
| 12 | ‘ Not that I would have been able to do much anyway , that thing 's a death trap ! |
| 13 | A good spiritual director would have been able to interpret this experience and have led him , step by step , past these dangerous swings of mood to a disciplined equanimity which was rooted in a deeper part of the self and which was not so dependent upon exterior circumstance . |
| 14 | He shouted to his riders , at least those near enough to hear , to try not to ride down any mounted men in their way , as those would likely be their own folk , it being improbable that the enemy would have been able to catch any of the fleeing horses . |
| 15 | ‘ But surely we ought to have been able to find some sort of compromise … ’ |