Example sentences of "have been able [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative , a nationally funded , vocationally oriented programme , has been able to incorporate some anti-sexist aspects as part of its normal aims and activities , even if the implementation of these aims is limited . |
| 2 | Freed from the need to work quite so hard to survive , man has been able to change some of his long-term habits . |
| 3 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 4 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 5 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 6 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 7 | In other words designers at DEC may have been able to make some process concessions to achieve a record clock rate that might not be appropriate for other architectures . |
| 8 | He has been taking medication and it is believed he may have been able to hide some of the drug . |
| 9 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 10 | But however enjoyable , reading about islands is nowhere near as rewarding as visiting them , and I consider myself fortunate in having been able to spend some time on the north Atlantic islands of Iceland , the Faroe Islands and that most remote of the British islands , St Kilda . |
| 11 | ‘ But surely we ought to have been able to find some sort of compromise … ’ |
| 12 | Patrick had been able to do some thinking on the drive from Sandwich . |
| 13 | It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm . |
| 14 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 15 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 16 | We 're also , now that we have er erm the , the council 's actually hung , but now we have the , the Labour Group largely in control of the direction of what 's happening in the city er we 've been able to raise some issues that were extremely difficult to raise under the previous Tory administration . |
| 17 | We have been able to enjoy some lovely walks , and even to find some new ones which are usually too boggy to attempt . |
| 18 | However , it has been good that , thanks to the work of Ronnie Martin and his helpers , we have been able to have some use of the building on Sundays for our expanding Learning Together programme . |
| 19 | This fabulous Autumn continues with a brilliance of colour such as I do n't ever remember , and we have been able to have some lovely walks . |
| 20 | Virgin says that by expanding aggressively and bucking the trend it 's been able to get some really hard bargains . |