Example sentences of "have [been] able [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Rittner has been able to channel those modest resources into a taste of British sculpture , with four artists each contributing one important work of art . |
| 2 | The secretary-general of the former ruling party , the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) , Abdelhamid Mehri , said that the banning did not solve the two major problems facing Algeria , namely widespread demands for change " which the FIS has been able to channel to its advantage " , and the existence of a " well-rooted Islamic movement which must be taken into account in one way or another " . |
| 3 | Jack Whitehead ( University of Bath ) will open the conference describing how Avon authority has been able to promote teacher-research . |
| 4 | This luxury has meant that the group has been able to evolve a fairly sophisticated selection and training procedure . |
| 5 | But Maria has been able to glean that they were forced to flee their home town in northern Bosnia when their house was occupied by enemy Serbs . |
| 6 | INTERNATIONAL terrorism has been able to exploit the natural competitiveness and secretiveness of Europe 's counter-intelligence organisations . |
| 7 | It will become clear on June 5th whether the president has been able to exploit this split . |
| 8 | Presumably Pool has been able to predict the end of the Dalek War — and therefore the probability of Earth Central taking an interest in what 's going on here ? ’ |
| 9 | No one has been able to point to any useful purpose that it serves at the present day . |
| 10 | This problem does not seem to afflict the radical right in the same way ; since the early 1980s the Thatcher Government has been able to implement radical change without alienating its newspaper support . |
| 11 | It has been able to shed its loss-making operations without the need for lengthy legal procedures such as those which normally accompany the proposal to close a branch passenger service . |
| 12 | William Hammond Bartholomew was the Resident Engineer on this broad canal which was usual in that it has been able to resist competition from the railways . |
| 13 | He has been able to formulate a general model which encompasses existing models and enables tests to be made of the robustness of the results reported in The Population History of England by varying the projection parameters . |
| 14 | Using its patented Low Pressure Casting technique , Cosworth has been able to incorporate a high degree of stiffness in the compact unit . |
| 15 | The Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative , a nationally funded , vocationally oriented programme , has been able to incorporate some anti-sexist aspects as part of its normal aims and activities , even if the implementation of these aims is limited . |
| 16 | No Defence Secretary in recent years has been able to grip his department effectively , which means taking harsh decisions that reflect a coherent view of Britain 's priorities . |
| 17 | I spoke to David on the phone yesterday and he , too , has been able to do very little because of not being able to get into Tim 's program , like everybody else . |
| 18 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 19 | What Making Belfast Work has been able to do is draw on the ability of what Mrs. Thatcher would call West Belfast 's ‘ active citizens ’ to develop many of the self-help projects that have characterised the enterprising nature of the community for many years . |
| 20 | One of the reasons why it has been able to do so is its policy of charging for special exhibitions . |
| 21 | They summed up your guitar playing as nobody else has been able to do . ’ |
| 22 | The longer the system has been able to do this and the longer people have been socialized into accepting the efficacy of the system , the stronger and more enduring the allegiance has been . |
| 23 | Oxford United achieved what no other team this season has been able to do . |
| 24 | The historian , Minois , has delved systematically into the changing status of older people in history , and he has been able to link these changes to the dominant social ideas and circumstances of the time . |
| 25 | Although the affair stinks of a set-up , the government has been able to manipulate the publicity to deflect some of the heat from the Bofors affair . |
| 26 | As such , Microsoft has been able to manipulate the pace of change , and pre-empt rivals with its own Windows versions of popular MS-DOS applications ( spreadsheets , word-processors and the like ) . |
| 27 | Now , through the Friends of Craigmillar organisation , the school has been able to tap business expertise in the city to help it towards a new future . |
| 28 | Last autumn they reported an improved figure , after moving the apparatus to Goesgen , of 1.05 + 0.02 , in other words , a result consistent with there being no oscillations ( CERN Courier , vol 22 , p 371 ) — In its latest work the team has been able to dispense with having to make a comparison with the expected antineutrino spectrum , thereby removing one source of uncertainty . |
| 29 | You know , I do n't think he ( Souness ) has been able to pick from all his players every week certainly probably for 18 months since he 's been there . |
| 30 | Where critical psychologies have written off conventional psychology , as with marxist and other radical psychologies in the 1960s , the mainstream discipline has been able to ignore or co-opt them . |