Example sentences of "[been] able [to-vb] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secretary-general of the former ruling party , the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) , Abdelhamid Mehri , said that the banning did not solve the two major problems facing Algeria , namely widespread demands for change " which the FIS has been able to channel to its advantage " , and the existence of a " well-rooted Islamic movement which must be taken into account in one way or another " . |
| 2 | She did n't tell him that was the only way she had been able to cope with his absence , by blocking him out completely and refusing even to acknowledge his existence . |
| 3 | ‘ As a result of very careful housekeeping , we have been able to deal with our list of creditors and to bring the cash problem under firm control . |
| 4 | In his arms , pressed close against the hard , powerful body she 'd never been able to banish from her mind , she forgot everything but him , knew nothing but the agonising joy of being in his arms . |
| 5 | He , too , seemed visibly affected by the brief amount of time he had been able to spend with his brother . |
| 6 | They frequently flew together in the two-seater bi-plane , covering large sections of the south coast and Keitel had been able to indulge in his interest for aerial photography . |
| 7 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 8 | It was around Lake Baikal that the woman in pink had been able to share in her daughter 's delight with the journey . |
| 9 | She would never have been able to operate without her husband Eric , who for all his bluff and jolly manner was in practice a hard man , a no-nonsense man , who sent trouble-makers back where they came from , into the main prison system , without any heart-searchings or regrets . |
| 10 | It was the first time the 25-year-old has been able to speak about her ordeal since she was found early on Friday morning after being abducted from near a disco in south Dublin . |
| 11 | Wishing desperately that she were able to defend her grandfather , but knowing that to explain would only cause more trouble until she 'd been able to speak with his mother , and fervently wishing she had locked her door when she 'd come up to bed , Ellie said tiredly , ‘ I do n't know why . |
| 12 | She must have been able to tell from my face how I felt about that . |
| 13 | Charlton had the decency to colour up at the bare-faced plugs for his product that the worthy representing British Gas had been able to lever into his opening peroration . |
| 14 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |