Example sentences of "[verb] [be] able [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One must wonder whether the book trade will continue to have the large and complicated distribution systems which it has been able to support in the past . |
| 2 | Mr Cliburn , who was born in Shreveport , Louisiana , into a family that made its pile from oil , has been able to retire to a vast mansion . |
| 3 | However , it is not clear from the information presented by Burr how well he has been able to cope with the irregular morphological structure of English . |
| 4 | In the past this plant would only have been found on the better drained slopes leading to our moorland plateaux , but because of man 's interference in this environment , by digging drainage ditches and lowering the water table , the plant has been able to spread onto the plateaux themselves . |
| 5 | Now , a quarter of a century after that first opening , Mr Smythe has been able to work for the good of the trade which has brought him travel , skill , and national recognition . |
| 6 | No doubt it is because of the vision to train in this way that Ichthus has been able to grow in the way that it has done . |
| 7 | We are delighted that the BBC Big Band has been able to come to the Festival as part of BBC 's ‘ Radio Goes To Town ’ — they will return briefly for a lunchtime programme with David Jacobs in the Ulster Hall on Wednesday ! |
| 8 | It should be noted that no modules will be deleted until the module version deletion process has been able to run through the whole LIFESPAN database . |
| 9 | As a result of this the club has been able to run at a constant level of activity . |
| 10 | But one Moscow designer , at least , has been able to look at the familiar with a fresh eye and use the symbols of Soviet power with wit and imagination . |
| 11 | Recently , the World Bank has been able to hide from the spotlight that has laid the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development bare before the public gaze . |
| 12 | Many of these ‘ deformations ’ may also owe something to the fact that , as Cézanne moved from one section of his canvas to another , he unconsciously altered the structure of objects in an effort to relate rhythmically each passage of painting to the areas around it.1 But apart from emphasizing the aesthetic or two-dimensional plane on which he was working , the tipping forward of certain objects or parts of objects also gives the sensation that the painter has adopted variable or movable viewpoints and that he thus has been able to synthesize into a single image of an object a lot of information gathered from looking at it from a series of successive viewpoints . |
| 13 | Continuing nursing care , it 's important to stress here , that the continuing nursing care , the arrangements have relied to some extent on the use of joint finance to ensure that the Health Authority has been able to meet during the year the extra workload , and er , the budget settlement that they have , er , is actually being discussed at the moment with a view to the picking up some of those costs on a continuing basis . |
| 14 | If only he 'd been able to finish off the plastic swan and the weeping-kid picture there 'd have been some hope for the flat . |
| 15 | If I 'd been able to guess at the future , the turning point would have been right there — wheeling the ship around and moving as fast as possible away from anything to do with Fraxilly . |
| 16 | And she might have been able to deal with the situation — might , indeed , have been able to suppress and finally bury such an errant emotion — if it were n't for her present situation . |
| 17 | He would n't have been able to cope with the larger trunks . |
| 18 | They might not have been able to shelter from the bombs . |
| 19 | Editor , — J Michael Dixon postulates that most dental surgeons previously had both NHS and private patients and would thus have been able to act in the Robin Hood pattern that some of us remember general practitioners adopting before the introduction of the NHS . |
| 20 | And if Oliver had betrayed him , as he had betrayed all the others , what would she have been able to do for the Chartist candidate then ? |
| 21 | He claims that Mr Maitland should have been able to rely on the references and should be compensated for the full amount plus lost interest . |
| 22 | You would not have been able to take in the words I had planned to say that night , the night of number one hundred and fifty-six . |
| 23 | On any other morning , Bissett would have been able to live with the thudding blast of the explosives and with the crisp rattle of sub-machine gun and pistol fire . |
| 24 | But the only reason the Lewis conference in Barcelona was held in a tiny sweat box rather than the air-conditioned Olympic press centre was because his Japanese sponsors would not have been able to advertise at the latter venue . |
| 25 | The secret is how to listen to this inner voice without which the Holy Ones would not have been able to pass on the messages they had been given . |
| 26 | Without our help they might not have been able to fight off the Germans as they did . |
| 27 | Mary was a fast runner , but she would n't have been able to escape from the man if he had n't tripped . |
| 28 | She said another member of the family would have been able to help after the theft but it would have caused more inconvenience . |
| 29 | It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ . |
| 30 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |