Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [been] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her astonishment , Sally-Anne , who for two dreadful months had hardly been able to bring herself to be near any man , however young and apparently innocuous , wanted to stroke the corner of his mouth — more , she wanted to smooth the scar away — or , rather , since that was impossible , to run her hand down it and tell him that it did not matter , such a thing could only disturb those who were themselves already disturbed ! |
| 2 | Milne said : ‘ The beauty of rugby is that fans have always been able to have a pint afterwards . |
| 3 | ‘ The beauty of rugby is fans have always been able to have a pint afterwards . |
| 4 | A further major problem is that voluntary organizations have hitherto been able to choose the particular client group within the field on which they wish to focus . |
| 5 | Her parents have today been able to speak to her , but it 's clear she still faces a lengthy recovery . |
| 6 | In the past five or six years , foodservice companies have also been able to supply frozen pasta . |
| 7 | Using a method known as " biolistic " technology , Ciba-Geigy engineers have now been able to penetrate the cell walls of a variety of corn suitable for commercial farming . |
| 8 | This legislation had been hailed as a powerful weapon with which to seize drug barons ' fortunes but up to May last year police and Customs investigators had only been able to confiscate £11 million . |
| 9 | The American budget has not been harmed , and the Republicans have even been able to fight off ‘ peace dividend ’ talk while relaunching some of their cherished defence projects such as the immensely costly B-2 warplane . |
| 10 | In other studies , investigators have often been able to assume that they know the lexical input to commonly occurring vowel variables such as ( e ) and ( a ) and also that all the lexical items counted have the much the same potential for variation ( that is , the direction of variation will be consistent throughout ) . |
| 11 | The argument has special attractions in Italy , whose governments have never been able to beat the Mafia and its offshoots . |
| 12 | Commercial banks have generally been able to provide the finance necessary to support the huge increase in investment because they have collected substantial deposits from savers . |
| 13 | For the past ten years , managers have generally been able to take for granted that nurses will be there to manage . |
| 14 | In the past , chartered accountants have also been able to charge higher rates because of their qualification , but this premium has been put under increasing pressure at the smaller end of the market because of the recession . |
| 15 | For instance , the peasants of the Maramureş to whom Ceauşescu had appealed to preserve their ancient ways had only been able to do so until then because their poor hill-side farms had not yet been collectivized . |
| 16 | It would appear to be due to the strength of these preferences that prime borrowers have frequently been able to raise funds more cheaply by making a eurosterling rather than a domestic issue . |
| 17 | Throughout the years , ICI chemists have always been able to make good use of the profusion of basic materials available on Teesside to make more complex organic compounds . |
| 18 | His critics have therefore been able to attack his biology and think they have disposed of his phenomenology of the unconscious , and of human experience . |
| 19 | The trouble broke out when other party leaders voted to change the rules and thus enable delegation members to elect their chairmen ( as committee members have long been able to do ) . |
| 20 | Until now , doctors have only been able to CONFIRM the disease after death . |
| 21 | Scientists have even been able to distinguish tiny parasitic insects , mites , clinging to the legs of the bigger ones . |
| 22 | But the Americans have only been able to perform this leadership role because other people are paying , without demanding control of the operation . |
| 23 | But Birmingham Labour MP Robin Corbett said : ‘ The hope must be that the police have now been able to find something that will help identify the real culprits . ’ |
| 24 | Formal labour markets in capitalist economies have never been able to provide paid employment for everyone who needed it , and short of allowing wage-labourers and their families of future wage-labourers to starve , either individual capitalists or the state on their behalf had to provide alternative means of support . |
| 25 | Selected industries have also been able to secure extra depreciation in proportion to any increase in the share of exports in their total sales . |
| 26 | Indeed , poorer working women have never been able to leave it . |
| 27 | Employers have always been able to contract out their workers from the scheme if they offered an acceptable alternative . |
| 28 | Its methods and values have rarely been able to challenge the dominance of conservative normativism . |
| 29 | The unions have thus been able to extend their influence over a comprehensive range of working arrangements , and to reduce the areas of sole managerial prerogative . |
| 30 | Outside Scotland and Wales politicians have often been able to be singularly insensitive to local issues . |