Example sentences of "have been able [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ But surely we ought to have been able to find some sort of compromise … ’ |
| 6 | Patrick had been able to do some thinking on the drive from Sandwich . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |