Example sentences of "and have [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because government has never lost sight of the primacy of production , and has been able to avoid excessive borrowing to pay for it — in Cameroun because of the availability of oil , and in Kenya as a result of the low-key transfer of assets into African hands without any disruption in production . |
| 2 | Lotus , being in the Anglia region , has found a new sponsor and has been able , at last , to bring out its long-awaited cheap saloon — the Flan . |
| 3 | In hotter climates the Sussex has demonstrated several advantages : it has a smooth coat , and twice as many sweat glands as other European breeds ( in this respect it is on a par with the Africander ) and has been able to adapt well to the heat . |
| 4 | As market size has reduced , the division has been closely monitoring the position and has been able to make swift , well-informed decisions on pricing strategy . |
| 5 | In collaboration with Mr Filedt Kok and Mr Pieter Schatborn of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam he has photographed the complete collection of Rembrandt etchings in the printroom , making some 2000 exposures , and has been able to put together a detailed picture of Rembrandt 's use of paper . |
| 6 | The Bureau has undertaken several studies which have combined systematic econometric testing with economic analysis of particular equations or sectors of the models , and has been able to reconcile and resolve many of the differences in treatment between the models , in turn translating this resolution into its impact on full model properties . |
| 7 | The subsidence which occurs as a result of the mining in any event is very limited and has been able to be taken into account quite adequately on other developments within the Selby District . |
| 8 | She is learning German , working on the biography of a distant relative , a Victorian actor , and has been able to offer help from her long experience of managing a large cottage garden to the wife of the curator of Milton 's cottage at Chalfont St. Giles . |
| 9 | Now that he has retired from full time teaching , Guisborough-based John Brelstaff is able to devote more of his time to painting and has been able to resume the work left off when he left the Slade in the mid-Fifties . |
| 10 | Emmanuel Levinas , for example , whose career has been long enough to have introduced Husserl to Sartre in the thirties and to have been able to reply to Derrida in the seventies , proposes a rather different critique of such models of knowledge to those which we have encountered so far . |
| 11 | Yet they also said that they had managed to increase output without increasing the workforce and had been able to grow more effectively . |
| 12 | He had exercised effective control of the labour force for ten years at the giant plant and had been able to bring the workers out on strike at the drop of a hat . |
| 13 | She had been experiencing considerable feelings of grief about her husband and had been able to cry on occasions . |
| 14 | ‘ My best friend Gillian had given birth to her baby Laura in another hospital nine months before , and had been able to stay in for ten days . |
| 15 | Fortunately she 'd found herself within reach of the small hall table which held the telephone and had been able to ring her neighbour . |
| 16 | Robert had once put his ear to the door during one of his colleagues ' classes and had been able to hear nothing from Class 2 but an eery silence . |
| 17 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 18 | Consequently , in the civil war , the Serbs and the Croats have generally controlled the roads and have been able to cut supplies to the Muslims at will . |
| 19 | Most of us have dieted at some time in our lives , and have been able to stick to the new regime quite rigidly for a little while . |
| 20 | The students have reported useful insight from their self assessments and have been able to identify things they did well , problems , and how they could improve . |
| 21 | This paper presents an improvement of this technique in which we have used voluntary , respiratory gating and have been able to obtain images for periods of 2–3 hours . |
| 22 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |