Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] [been] able [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a really marvellous holiday in October — three whole weeks , much longer than we 'd ever been able to have while Michael was working . |
| 2 | We 've also been able to have a great deal more equality . |
| 3 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 4 | We are having , we , we are at the moment reviewing all our traffic calming er requests because there are a whole load of them and in fact some of them we 've not been able to proceed as quickly as others so we , we need to look at the whole thing |
| 5 | because we 've not been able to talk to people |
| 6 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 7 | We 've never been able to discover anything about his parents . ’ |
| 8 | We 've never been able to offer you such big , comfortable suites as in our exclusive new American Colonial Collection . |
| 9 | Mrs Ainsworth appeared at my elbow , " That 's something we 've never been able to find out . " |
| 10 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 11 | To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation . |
| 12 | As white lesbians , because of our racism , we had not been able to work out a joint analysis of heterosexism with Black lesbian workers , because we had no knowledge of the implications and ramifications of heterosexism in their lives . |
| 13 | We had never been able to afford to go on holidays — Dad had had to work all the time — so school holidays had been spent at home . |
| 14 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 15 | On seeing the deference with which Hocazade was treated , Karamani Mehmed Pasa remarked : " We have not been able to destroy his good repute . |
| 16 | We have not been able to arrange a Neighbourhood Watch scheme . |
| 17 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 18 | ‘ We have not been able to account for him and we do n't know where he is and we 're very much interested in talking to him , ’ he said . |
| 19 | As a result ‘ we have not been able to take advantage of what the City has to offer . ’ |
| 20 | He is a very nice horse but we have not been able to test him in Dubai , ’ said Conway . |
| 21 | Unfortunately we have not been able to persuade her to have ophthalmic screening , so the presence of congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium is not known . |
| 22 | The reason why we have not been able to debate the report is that we have had a great deal of other business to do . |
| 23 | And , yes , we have not been able to employ them straight away , though they could come into the orchestra to sit with the principals as a co-pilot sits with the pilot . |
| 24 | Although in principle we know the equations that govern the whole of biology , we have not been able to reduce the study of human behavior to a branch of applied mathematics . |
| 25 | We have not been able to trace her . |
| 26 | A Mr Ross from Leominster , who owned a shoe shop in Bishop 's Castle , was a keen cine photographer and when he came to Bishop 's Castle ( by train ) he was in the habit of taking film of the railway , but the family moved away to the South Coast , after selling the business , and to date we have not been able to trace the family or film . |
| 27 | Many times in this council when we 've been discussing more important points , when we 've been discussing the needs of people who have real needs , we have not been able to have our priority we have not been able to have our priority because we could not afford it . |
| 28 | Many times in this council when we 've been discussing more important points , when we 've been discussing the needs of people who have real needs , we have not been able to have our priority we have not been able to have our priority because we could not afford it . |
| 29 | Several of them were fringe members who we have not been able to keep on to some of them especially in er in Little Hulton and Irlam |
| 30 | The loss of a significant relationship through death is , however , likely to be one that we have not been able to prepare for much in advance , and it is likely to be a loss that we do regret . |