Example sentences of "been able [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd had another sleepless night and ahead lay customs , who could n't be expected to be exactly pro-British , and because of post and telephone strikes in Argentina , he had n't been able to confirm the flight with Alejandro , so they 'd have to go through the hassle of hiring a car to drive the 330 kilometres out to his estancia . |
| 2 | Until now , doctors have only been able to CONFIRM the disease after death . |
| 3 | I think the people of Wiltshire recognise that we have been able to set a budget that enables all the departments to have more money in real terms to spend on delivery of service for next year , and I think that 's something that we can some credit in , and I think it does reflect a new partnership between councillors , officers and those that are delivering services to the public across the county . |
| 4 | According to the board , Ocean Ranger was structurally sound and should have been able to weather the storm . |
| 5 | Some experimenters indeed ( including Ellis and Muller ( 1964 ) themselves when they made use of the more complex 24-pointed shapes as their stimuli ) have been able to demonstrate a superiority of distinctiveness training over the observe-only control condition ( see also Kurtz and Hovland 1953 ; Ranken 1963 ; Ellis and Feuge 1966 ; Ellis and Homan 1968 ) . |
| 6 | It is something of a puzzle , therefore , that others using the flavour-aversion procedure ( Best , Gemberling , and Johnson 1979 ; Kaye , Swietalski , and Mackintosh 1988 b ) should have been able to demonstrate an attenuation of latent inhibition . |
| 7 | I knew that I could achieve results despite the difficulties , and I knew that I had been able to demonstrate the ability to work with people of other countries . |
| 8 | Using the PPT element linked to magnetic beads we have been able to demonstrate the enrichment of a protein with a molecular weight of 40k with that of the binding activity . |
| 9 | In the right circumstances , Mr Solarz has been able to give a nudge or two to history . |
| 10 | The latter have lacked an effective spokesman partly because the Polytechnic of Wales which , in other circumstances , might have been able to give a lead , is in an isolated position , being the only one of its kind in the Principality . |
| 11 | When Leo told me , I asked if he had been able to give the message . |
| 12 | In other words , the price mechanism has not yet been able to form a support for the market . |
| 13 | At no other time has either left or right been able to form a government without the support of the FOP , which has therefore been the essential junior partner in coalition either with the CDU/CSU or , less often , with the SPD . |
| 14 | Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition . |
| 15 | First , had proportional representation been in force in 1983 , then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government on their own and coalition would have forced a moderation of policies . |
| 16 | ‘ So far as I know , ’ Miss Honey went on , ‘ nobody else in the history of the world has been able to compel an object to move without touching it or blowing on it or using any outside help at all . ’ |
| 17 | We have been able to fund the research behind and preparation of the document internally . |
| 18 | We have been able to fund the research behind and preparation of the document internally . |
| 19 | Under different circumstances , she might have been able to appreciate the irony of it . |
| 20 | Redcar 's Stead Hospital has been able to create a home from home to help rehabilitate patients , thanks to the support of the town 's Rotary Club , which raised half of the £38,000 needed to provide a therapy suite . |
| 21 | In this picture , Joni has not just imitated or interpreted a style , but has been able to create an object with all the patina , or aura , of an ancient work of art . |
| 22 | Most have replied and I have been able to draft a progress report which enables you to see what stage your councils have reached and how they match up to progress in other councils . |
| 23 | She had not been able to drink the tea , although she had tried , so as not to be ungrateful . |
| 24 | have I been able to see a fight so clearly … |
| 25 | If I had been able to see a copy of the local Communist party paper , I would have learned that I — with many others — had been unmasked as a conspirator and an enemy of the state . |
| 26 | It must be almost dawn , she thought absently ; an hour ago she had not been able to see a thing . |
| 27 | One example er , a couple of examples erm , we 've worked together with the unions in Moulinex in northern France who bought Swan Kettles er which is where the G M B is erm is highly organized and er in those er meetings between the unions in , in Moulinex and Swan we 've been able to see the disparity between the conditions and the wages and be able to speak about ways in which people can go back to their , to their er workplace and work on that with that knowledge . |
| 28 | I kind of wished I 'd sat behind Verity ; I would n't have seen so much of her — not even a hint of that slim , smooth face , frowning in concentration as she barrelled the big black Beemer towards the next corner — but I would n't have been able to see the speedometer , either . |
| 29 | In fact M42 is only the brightest part of a vast nebular cloud which covers most of Orion , but I have never been able to see the rest of it with binoculars . |
| 30 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |