Example sentences of "[verb] [be] able to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's more , Glass has been able to stage Gormenghast with the blessing of the Peake family . |
| 2 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 3 | ‘ Imagine being able to radio to base . |
| 4 | Purcell probably completed this piece late , and supplied it on a separate sheet ; the part-copyist would have been able to gauge from the skeleton provided in the score how much space to leave in the second violin and viola parts . |
| 5 | He hoped that the rear gunner had been able to parachute to safety . |
| 6 | It is possible that a greater difference would have emerged if we had been able to age-match the Crohn 's disease and control groups , as age has been shown to be inversely correlated with intestinal blood volume . |
| 7 | Lady Amory 's reaction to this was a mixture of sadness and the old excitement : ‘ We 're very fortunate in that in the near part of the wood garden we 've been able to grass over and you would n't realise the number of big trees that have come down . |
| 8 | Firms in the UK have been able to repurchase their shares since the 1981 Companies Act , provided that shareholders are willing to sell and that the firm is left with some issue of share capital following the repurchase . |