Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] ever been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those leaders have tried to keep their empires isolated from the Darwinian laws of survival , despite the fact that none of the ‘ gods ’ as presented by them has ever been able to set aside the inexorable operation of those laws . |
| 2 | No-one has ever been able to explain precisely why the tropical forests and coral reefs contain so many species , but the two habitats do have several obvious features in common . |
| 3 | After the yard was the house that was built for , and due , so much more life than I 'd ever been able to give it . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's the first time I 've ever been able to persuade Beefy to stop for treatment , ’ says Dave ‘ Rooster ’ Roberts , the new England cricket team physio who is looking after the walkers . |
| 5 | This is the only nine to five sales job I 've ever been able to offer anybody . |
| 6 | The only two dates I have ever been able to remember are the date of my birth and 1066 , the year that William the Conqueror first visited England . |
| 7 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 8 | But nobody has ever been able to decide which . |
| 9 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 10 | Anyone who can see — or who has ever been able to see — is able to visualize . |
| 11 | The oak trees had not yet lost the vivid yellow-green of their late springtime , a colour so bright , so fresh and so unparalleled elsewhere in nature or in art that no one has ever been able to emulate it and it is never seen in paint or cloth or women 's dresses . |
| 12 | And in the depths of the forest , the humming is still strong , and the wind is still swirling all about us , and something is stirring , something that is so strong and so purely magical that no one has ever been able to resist it … |
| 13 | Many of us had our suspicions , but because he covered his tracks so well no one has ever been able to prove anything . |
| 14 | We had a really marvellous holiday in October — three whole weeks , much longer than we 'd ever been able to have while Michael was working . |
| 15 | Comfort was Comfort , he reflected , and no one had ever been able to change her . |
| 16 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 17 | But this was not so ; no one landing there had ever been able to get out and the nearest airport was 600 miles away . |
| 18 | All they had ever been able to do in the face of violence was to bend to it . |
| 19 | Much of it was way beyond anything he 'd ever been able to dream about . |
| 20 | Harvey wondered whether he had ever been able to , even in the beginning . |
| 21 | The effect of such correction can , in some instances , be dramatic , as in the case of a child who , after receiving his first pair of spectacles , spent several evenings looking at the stars as it was the first time he had ever been able to see them . |
| 22 | He found it impossible to believe that he had ever been able to write a book or give a lecture , or advise a government . |
| 23 | I put my arm across his shoulders , and as he leaned against me for a moment and sobbed I wondered if he had ever been able to cry like this — like a little boy with somebody to comfort him . |
| 24 | Nothing had ever been able to keep her down for long — another advantage of her Arian birth-sign , her mother would have insisted . |
| 25 | None of us had ever been able to discover whether it was a deliberate effect , or the result of pure chance . |