Example sentences of "[been] able [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But he might still have been able to stop in time if he 'd braked hard enough . |
| 3 | 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 , . |
| 4 | What , for example , is the basis for the influential role doctors have been able to play in health service policies ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | THE Tories are said not to have been able to get in right in 13 years . |
| 7 | Since then nobody has been able to get in touch with her . |
| 8 | They have been able to work in government service , even in the army , and there has been no need for work permits . |
| 9 | For the first time , archaeologists have been able to study in detail the techniques used by post-medieval builders to construct the typical ‘ cob ’ houses for which the West Country is famous . |
| 10 | The only other argument that I have been able to find in support of tonight 's regulations is where the DSS states that the use of regulation 72 puts ’ an over-emphasis on the Department 's welfare role and overlooks the fact that persons acting for the claimant could have made inquiries on the claimant 's behalf . ’ |
| 11 | And to add to her joy , Hilda took her to meet sister Lena as the two had been able to keep in touch . |