Example sentences of "we 've [adv] been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've also been able to have a great deal more equality . |
| 2 | For the future for erm , for record , we 've not been able in the past to know how people spoke only from books , dictionaries and try to describe how people said things , erm , but this is a living record and I 'm getting more and more embarrassed as the minutes go by and those of you who are doing drama this afternoon , anybody doing drama ? |
| 3 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 4 | We are having , we , we are at the moment reviewing all our traffic calming er requests because there are a whole load of them and in fact some of them we 've not been able to proceed as quickly as others so we , we need to look at the whole thing |
| 5 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 6 | because we 've not been able to talk to people |
| 7 | ‘ Out of doors is the best place for Brownies , really , but we 've only been able to be out of doors so much because of this hot summer . |
| 8 | In past years erm in the British Isles especially with the British Met Office , we 've only been able really to study part of the atmosphere over the northern hemisphere . |
| 9 | We 've never been able to offer you such big , comfortable suites as in our exclusive new American Colonial Collection . |
| 10 | We 've never been able to discover anything about his parents . ’ |
| 11 | Mrs Ainsworth appeared at my elbow , " That 's something we 've never been able to find out . " |
| 12 | ‘ If you could make contact with Bell , it might give us an in we 've never been able — ’ |
| 13 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 14 | To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation . |