Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] been able [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitherto , few secondary schools have been able to do this consistently . |
| 2 | Has my right honourable friend had time to study the recent annual survey of grant maintained schools which shows that since becoming grant maintained , schools have been able to recruit more teachers , improve their results and offer better facilities for their pupils . |
| 3 | For example , one partner facilitated the removal of carpet tiles so that our staff and parents have been able to carpet most of the school . |
| 4 | The result has been that the Conservatives have been able to transform this country from the laggard of Europe in the hands of the unions with inflation well over 20pc to a lean , competitive economy with low taxes ready to take full advantage of the upturn when the recession ends . |
| 5 | THE England women 's selectors have been able to include both Fatima Whitbread , the javelin world champion , and Tessa Sanderson , the Commonwealth champion , in the 48-strong team for January 's Commonwealth Games in Auckland , despite neither woman throwing at the trials in August . |
| 6 | Li and her coworkers have been able to locate these sequence variations ( which geneticists have identified in amino acid sequences as important for target specificity ) in the three-dimensional structure of the toxin , and found them to be concentrated in the β sheets of domain II . |
| 7 | In organisations like the WEA particularly , because of its grass roots and more democratic base , women have been able to take more control of their own learning and become their own teachers and organise themselves in ways which are less controlled by patriarchal infiltration . |
| 8 | Other researchers have been able to overcome this problem in split-brain patients . |
| 9 | Archaeologists have been able to follow this trade route across Europe from the Baltic to the Mediterranean by analysing pieces of amber with unique chemical properties which identify the source area in Samland . |
| 10 | Attitudes appear to be somewhat unfavourable to ‘ welfare state ’ provision ; Newby ( 1979 ) suggests that influential local interests ( farmers and landowners ) have been keen to minimize local council house building in order to keep down rates — and through key positions on councils have been able to realize this objective . |
| 11 | Some researchers working on the removal and examination of fertilized cells have been able to reject those which were clearly mongoloid , only replacing those known to be able to produce normal infants . |