Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] have been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 2 | The poet who against Romantic diction forged a new contemporary language for a poetry which had been able to deal with the modern city face to face , had , to a considerable extent , reinstated Romanticism through anthropology . |
| 3 | up to a point I have been able to illustrate this theme by drawing attention to contrasts which are likely to be familiar to all my readers , e.g. the difference in modern Western societies between monetary and non-monetary exchanges . |
| 4 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 5 | It is the autumn statement of a Government who have been able to increase public expenditure , in a well-targeted and specific way , by 20 per cent . |
| 6 | So behind every change , every innovation , every development project , there must be somebody with a vision who has been able to communicate and sell that vision to somebody else ( even when the change begins with an assignment , not a self-directed initiative ) . |