Example sentences of "been able [to-vb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This power derives , not from any superior individual or institutional competence , but from the strategically important role which these interests have been able to mark out for themselves in American society . |
| 2 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |
| 3 | Not that he could ever have afforded to buy those kind of designer clothes on his meagre wage but with the money he had received to throw the American and his beautiful assistant , or rather partner , off the scent he had been able to splash out for once in his life . |
| 4 | ‘ I still have n't been able to find out for sure . |
| 5 | ‘ My best friend Gillian had given birth to her baby Laura in another hospital nine months before , and had been able to stay in for ten days . |