Example sentences of "[been] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " 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 | Mr Robertson suggested the possible end of timber-cutting in 62 out of 156 national forests , covering 24m hectares ( 59m acres ) of land , where cutting has been costing more to administer than the Forest Service has been able to recoup from sales . |
| 3 | Although tigers have been able to adapt to different climates and landscapes , they have not been able to live alongside people . |
| 4 | She 'd never been able to lie to Candy — the other woman knew her too well , could see through her straight away . |
| 5 | Had he been able to argue with Northumberland before the present arrived he would have refused it , for four reasons . |
| 6 | Olga and Joe had been able to go to school , though they had plenty of farm chores as well . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She might not have been able to put into words the high hopes she held for her daughter but her actions spoke volumes . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 14 | Prior to July 1 Soviet Jews had been able to leave for Israel with only a visa . |
| 15 | She 's not been taking them , she 's been able to sleep at night but she 's sleeping all day and all . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | For surely he ought to have been able to explain to Colonel Hope , to persuade Colonel Hope , to arrive at a gentlemanly agreement — and what precisely had Colonel Hope said ? |
| 18 | Indeed they were given a meal , more substantial than any they had been able to enjoy at Berwick for a while , before they set off again . |
| 19 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We want to wear some of those clothes in the wardrobe that we have n't been able to wear for ages . |
| 23 | But he might still have been able to stop in time if he 'd braked hard enough . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In deference to the opposition within the party , the abandonment of the referendum was kept secret until Law had been able to consult with Borden , who of course insisted that tariffs without food taxes would be no value to Canada , but who also refused to make a public intervention in British politics . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I have been able to do as Minister is to remove the spectre of listing ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Up to 1946 , Truman had been able to rely on support from both Democrats and Republicans in dealing with the Soviet Union . |