Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived on East Broadway where they had been able to afford property . |
| 2 | Retracing my steps , I realized with a shock that I was no more able to find my way back to the village than I 'd been able to find the place we 'd been raking . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had no problem recruiting — I 've had far more offers than I 've been able to use . |
| 4 | The question I I have is quite a simple one , and that is I would like to actually see this pond slightly closer quarters than I 've been able to . |
| 5 | Situations are more dynamic than I have been able to describe . |
| 6 | Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun ! |
| 7 | ‘ They 've said he 's 100pc , so I 've been able to dispel any fears I had after the accident . ’ |
| 8 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 9 | She was contributing more than she had been able to before to her mother 's household expenses . |
| 10 | And so you 've been able to help a number of firms . |
| 11 | I shall seek to show clearly where the hon. Gentleman went wrong on public expenditure and how other nations , which are much more balanced , have been able to develop their real economies , their manufacturing bases and their wealth-creating processes so much more effectively than we have been able to do in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | Mr Tony Cove , Pilkington 's public relations manager , said : ‘ Fortunately we opened a new production line recently and the building industry is down on its orders at the moment , so we have been able to cope . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Fortunately we have been investing heavily in new plant and equipment , so we have been able to respond quickly to this rapid demand growth . ’ |
| 14 | We have been having lovely weather , so we have been able to get out quite a lot . |
| 15 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 16 | Baxter , for instance , concluded that it was a ‘ fierce movie … a social tract and a revolutionary one ’ , but , although he had been able to explain the way the film had produced such ‘ fierce ’ effects , he was unable , or not sufficiently politically motivated , to explain why it was so ‘ revolutionary ’ as a ‘ social tract ’ . |
| 17 | Here , on a small island of some 2,000 or so souls , pocketed by the encircling hills around its charming port , was the ideal place for him to gather his thoughts and address himself more seriously than he had been able to do in busy Montreal , grim London or frenetic New York . |
| 18 | His flight had left New York three hours after the Paris flight and by then the worst of the turbulence over the Atlantic had dissipated so he had been able to sleep for most of the journey . |
| 19 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mala asked , her voice as raw as I 'm sure men would have sounded , if I 'd been able to speak . |
| 22 | If I 'd been able to think straight five years ago , I 'd never have married you . |
| 23 | I 'd have told Jamie as much , too , if I 'd been able to talk and had n't been concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other . |
| 24 | ‘ If I had been able to run my own theatre , like Alan Ayckbourn or Neil Simon , I would definitely have directed all my plays myself . |
| 25 | If I had been able to see a copy of the local Communist party paper , I would have learned that I — with many others — had been unmasked as a conspirator and an enemy of the state . |
| 26 | I could have run away , but I had no money and , even if I had been able to borrow it , I should still have been too frightened because I had nowhere to run to . |
| 27 | I accept that you do n't want my condolences , but if I had been able to speak the right words , they would not have been insincere . ’ |
| 28 | But if I have been able to persuade you that Bishop Wilberforce and Professor Chomsky are really saying the same thing , then those of you who are of rationalist or empiricist persuasion have at least got a measure of the difficulties that you face . |
| 29 | Wishing desperately that she were able to defend her grandfather , but knowing that to explain would only cause more trouble until she 'd been able to speak with his mother , and fervently wishing she had locked her door when she 'd come up to bed , Ellie said tiredly , ‘ I do n't know why . |
| 30 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |