Example sentences of "[been] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 2 | She 'd never been able to lie to Candy — the other woman knew her too well , could see through her straight away . |
| 3 | Olga and Joe had been able to go to school , though they had plenty of farm chores as well . |
| 4 | The USS Enterprise may have been able to go into hyperspace , but the ITN news machine was in hypertime , boldly going where no returning officers had gone before . |
| 5 | To counter the first fear of specialisation , ‘ disabling ’ clients is certainly not the objective of casework , and advisers must resist the personal satisfaction that they may get from acting on behalf of a client when that client may well have been able to cope with assistance alone . |
| 6 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 7 | From the polytechnic , the court was told , Bedworth had been able to hack into computer systems all around the world using his microcomputer — a type found in many schools — as a master terminal . |
| 8 | For Hardy , who had written in a letter to Thomas Macquoid , ‘ I am glad you like Tess — though I have not been able to put on paper all that she is , or was , to me ’ , it was ‘ the beginning of the end of his career as a novelist ’ . |
| 9 | She 's not been taking them , she 's been able to sleep at night but she 's sleeping all day and all . |
| 10 | Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun ! |
| 11 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
| 12 | However , the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland has increasingly been able to give some very substantial grants towards churches , ensuring that churches faced with closure because of a repairs crisis have been able to continue in use . |
| 13 | But he might still have been able to stop in time if he 'd braked hard enough . |
| 14 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 15 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 16 | Beaumont 's study of assisted migrants in Scotland in 1976 showed that 88 per cent of his sample said they would have wanted to move in the absence of government assistance and , even more important , 69 per cent of the sample said they would have been able to move without government assistance . |
| 17 | I have been able to do as Minister is to remove the spectre of listing ’ |
| 18 | A century later John Murray , the British ambassador in Constantinople , bitterly regretted that in 1774 he had not been able to act as mediator in the making of the Russo-Turkish peace of Kutchuk — Kainardji and thus gain the valuable presents from both sides which would have been his reward . |
| 19 | Up to 1946 , Truman had been able to rely on support from both Democrats and Republicans in dealing with the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Mr McGregor still suffers from a reduced function in his arms and has not been able to return to work . |
| 21 | Manuel had not been able to improve on par the first day but everyone knew he was capable of making up a lot of leeway with one of his famous ‘ charges . ’ |
| 22 | I refer to Julia Kristeva 's somewhat obscure remarks about ‘ the role that the pervert , with his invincible belief in the maternal phallus and his obstinate refusal to recognise the existence of the other sex , has been able to play in anti-semitism and the totalitarian movements that embrace it , . |
| 23 | What , for example , is the basis for the influential role doctors have been able to play in health service policies ? |
| 24 | Almost the entire population listens to the Persian service of the BBC , and the BBC reports the latest broadside from the Ayatollah in Paris and such information from Teheran as correspondents have been able to sift from rumour . |
| 25 | Who but Gibbons has been able to reproduce in wood the precise bloom of a ripening peach , the very texture and mass of a bursting apricot , or the exact weight and trajectory of an ear of corn on its stem ? |
| 26 | She knew only the cream would have been able to get to Teacher Training College in the first place , and so many shared her desire and enthusiasm for education . |
| 27 | But , so far , at any rate , he had not been able to get beyond page 12 . |
| 28 | THE Tories are said not to have been able to get in right in 13 years . |
| 29 | Since then nobody has been able to get in touch with her . |
| 30 | In Cambridgeshire , Jack Ravensdale has been able to show from documentary references how the village plans of Cottenham , Landbeach and Waterbeach have changed and developed over the centuries . |