Example sentences of "have be able [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will become clear on June 5th whether the president has been able to exploit this split . |
| 2 | The longer the system has been able to do this and the longer people have been socialized into accepting the efficacy of the system , the stronger and more enduring the allegiance has been . |
| 3 | It is hoped that this ‘ infrared slavery ’ will explain why quarks are always confined in colorless bound states , but so far no one has been able to demonstrate this really convincingly . |
| 4 | For this he needs a computer at his home with a large storage capacity , and the ESRC project has been able to provide this . |
| 5 | The Chancellor has been able to offer this help because he has found some extra money in the Exchequer 's coffers . |
| 6 | Desmond Bonney has been able to show this for the Enford area of Wiltshire , where the territory of each small settlement can be tentatively defined , even though most of their boundaries never emerge as more than tithing arrangements , if that . |
| 7 | Before Ma left me to collect my new sister from Maternity I would not have been able to execute this upward stretch unaided , now I hold the pose perfectly , without touching the chair back . |
| 8 | If they had been chatting , no matter how lightly , she would have been so absorbed in carefully listening and in getting out a reply through a nervously constricted throat that she would n't have been able to enjoy this wonderful drive . |
| 9 | Juliette Drouet , the mistress of Victor Hugo and his companion on his travels , was put out that a woman other than herself should have been able to make this ‘ difficult ascent ’ and claimed that the Duchess had needed the services of thirty guides and helpers ; less jaundiced reporters speak only of two . |
| 10 | A good spiritual director would have been able to interpret this experience and have led him , step by step , past these dangerous swings of mood to a disciplined equanimity which was rooted in a deeper part of the self and which was not so dependent upon exterior circumstance . |
| 11 | up to a point I have been able to illustrate this theme by drawing attention to contrasts which are likely to be familiar to all my readers , e.g. the difference in modern Western societies between monetary and non-monetary exchanges . |
| 12 | Hitherto , few secondary schools have been able to do this consistently . |
| 13 | Attitudes appear to be somewhat unfavourable to ‘ welfare state ’ provision ; Newby ( 1979 ) suggests that influential local interests ( farmers and landowners ) have been keen to minimize local council house building in order to keep down rates — and through key positions on councils have been able to realize this objective . |
| 14 | We have been able to demonstrate this at Westbury , for the bones from the rodent earth ( unit 15/8 : see Chapter 6 ) , where careful excavation with dental picks revealed complete bones with constituent parts in position but separated from each other by narrow cracks . |
| 15 | The result has been that the Conservatives have been able to transform this country from the laggard of Europe in the hands of the unions with inflation well over 20pc to a lean , competitive economy with low taxes ready to take full advantage of the upturn when the recession ends . |
| 16 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 17 | Other researchers have been able to overcome this problem in split-brain patients . |
| 18 | Qureshi and Simons ( 1987 ) have been able to show this on the basis of data from their Sheffield study of elderly people and their carers . |
| 19 | Archaeologists have been able to follow this trade route across Europe from the Baltic to the Mediterranean by analysing pieces of amber with unique chemical properties which identify the source area in Samland . |
| 20 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |