Example sentences of "[been] able [to-vb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 2 | He was concentrating furiously now , for , he thought , if I know of these places , then surely it must be because people have been able to talk of them . |
| 3 | erm Rusty in the fact that erm we have n't been able to sort of erm get out on the field with a ball in our hand , erm but erm our coach erm Ian McMillan has taken the opportunity to drag us into the gym and give us quite erm hard fitness sessions , so the fitness is still erm quite high on our side , but erm handling the ball will be a little bit rusty , but hopefully this week , now all the snow 's gone , we 'll be able to get out and erm move the ball about at training . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , I have been unable to identify the makers from what you have been able to decipher of the wording on the back . |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't been able to speak of this matter with Dr Armitage yet , but I 'm sure she will co-operate . |
| 6 | It was the first time since her death that he had been able to think of it with anything like acceptance . |
| 7 | Be that as it may , since that first witticism concerning the gypsies , I have not been able to think of other such witticisms quickly enough . |
| 8 | ‘ From the moment I set eyes on you I have n't been able to think of anything else . |
| 9 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 10 | So whereas in the past we may have been able to think of single user types and single solutions to meet those users . |
| 11 | ‘ But I have n't been able to think of an excuse for getting in touch with her , ’ she admitted . |
| 12 | The only thing she had been able to think of doing was going after Lori and getting the jade back herself . |
| 13 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 14 | More , shareholders would have been able to dispose of shares whether in order to spend their capital or to buy into more profitable businesses , thus creating a speculative stock market . |
| 15 | Despite difficult market conditions we have been able to dispose of assets at varying stages of development at prices which compare favourably with those achieved for recent industry sales . |