Example sentences of "have be able [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | No one has been able to point to any useful purpose that it serves at the present day . |
| 3 | As the £38 million Redbridge District Hospital in Essex welcomes its first patients , WCUK can reflect on the first-class treatment it has been able to give to this important health care project . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | ‘ He has been able to speak to us . |
| 7 | On Starr Hills , she 'd been able to talk to him ; but she did n't think she could now . |
| 8 | Had he done that — and this is advice every sensible lawyer would have given to him — he might have been able to return to public life without the long and painful period of atonement to which he was exposed . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Whether he would have been able to stick to it if he had ever risen to be national leader of the Liberal Party is not certain . |
| 11 | We readily agreed that the conversion had been carried out with more imagination than we would have been able to bring to it , but could we afford it ? |
| 12 | She knew only the cream would have been able to get to Teacher Training College in the first place , and so many shared her desire and enthusiasm for education . |
| 13 | For surely he ought to have been able to explain to Colonel Hope , to persuade Colonel Hope , to arrive at a gentlemanly agreement — and what precisely had Colonel Hope said ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them . |
| 16 | He was pleased that he and his wife had been able to talk to the doctor but he was still not sure that he understood about either the X-rays of his bowel or the surgery which might be necessary . |
| 17 | Now , he does think that the one and the mind is present to every one of us , erm , but I also take it that erm he er thought that he himself , had been able to ascend to the one er four times in the course of his life and that he also thought that some of his students were of better contemplation than others and erm so he may also have thought as Plato did , that some people are more inclined towards philosophy than others . |
| 18 | Olga and Joe had been able to go to school , though they had plenty of farm chores as well . |
| 19 | At that time he had been able to write to Lanfranc to ask if he remembered anything about these transactions . |
| 20 | For Liesl whose mother had been able to escape to this country , a battle royal developed between her parent and her foster parent . |
| 21 | If he had been able to speak to Jo each morning before he left for the Embassy , he probably would n't have been such a pain in the outer office . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | first time you 've been able to talk to him properly . |
| 24 | Over the years , we 've taken the risk to increase the court 's costs , erm , where we 've got agreed pro er , principles , and we 've b we 've been able to go to the courts and they 've agreed with us , for instance , standard fees for overloaded vehicle cases , we charge seventy pounds a time . |
| 25 | In working in years gone by with proprietary applications we 've been able to rely to a large extent on security facilities provided by the operating system . |
| 26 | my Lord I can I 'm sitting early tomorrow because a witness is being cross examined by Mr got to go off to so tomorrow he simply could not er , he si simply could not be released but er with your clerk er we 've been able to speak to Mr |
| 27 | Some have received large capital grants to improve their buildings , while others have been able to put to good use the money which would normally be spent on local authority overheads . |
| 28 | Although tigers have been able to adapt to different climates and landscapes , they have not been able to live alongside people . |
| 29 | The particular quality of the English primary school has been the way in which its teachers have been able to respond to the individual child on a personal , almost intuitive , basis . |
| 30 | This project will examine the ways in which local authorities have been able to respond to the opportunities offered by closer European integration . |