Example sentences of "we [modal v] have been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only there had been some worked examples , we may have been able to follow the article . |
| 2 | We may have been able to buy our departmental systems from a single vendor . |
| 3 | So whereas in the past we may have been able to think of single user types and single solutions to meet those users . |
| 4 | ‘ But surely we ought to have been able to find some sort of compromise … ’ |
| 5 | We should have been able to move more quickly . ’ |
| 6 | But I 'd 've thought that , that generally speaking , we should have been able to at least hold the line . |
| 7 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 8 | I 'm crying as I write this because we might have been able to save her . |
| 9 | If only the photographers had n't been there , we might have been able to hush it up . ’ |
| 10 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 11 | We might have been able to put more into housing this year , but we had to put £50 million out of the block into local authority spending . |
| 12 | It would have been wonderful if we could have been able to afford a gramophone as well . |
| 13 | See th history of the union is I mean er but er you know it 's a it 's a process is n't it in in a way the management have are probably really kicking themselves now for what 's happened you know I mean , their li latest statement is er , Well if there had n't been so much ou outside interference I 'm sure we 'd have been able to settle . |
| 14 | Erm however we would wish to see that policy complemented by the inclusion of the strategic exceptions policy erm and we know that I know that 's to be discussed tomorrow but I will mention now that I think it would have been much more useful to the discussion if we 'd have been able to discuss the strategic sites issue as part of this debate . |
| 15 | We readily agreed that the conversion had been carried out with more imagination than we would have been able to bring to it , but could we afford it ? |
| 16 | Mr Farrar said : ‘ If he had gone for help , it is beyond question we would have been able to save Mary Jo 's life . ’ |
| 17 | I mean , when we was in opposition , if er , if we had a Westminster crisis in Lincolnshire and it suddenly kicked all the conservatives off , we would have been able to come up with an alternative budget to manage this county . |