Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] 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 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But nobody has ever been able to decide which . |
| 6 | MALCOLM ALLEN , who has not been able to get into the Norwich first team this season , showed that Wales ' absentee forwards , Ian Rush and Mark Hughes , had better beware of him . |
| 7 | Parliament is the arena in which British political leaders are recruited and it is difficult to think of a successful Prime Minister who has not been able to command the House of Commons . |
| 8 | Nina Miklin will be well known to many club members but anyone who has not been able to attend one of her talks will be pleased to hear they now have a chance to go to a choice of two workshops . |
| 9 | Anyone who can see — or who has ever been able to see — is able to visualize . |
| 10 | She has not been able to get any type of work since , despite applying for eight jobs a week . |
| 11 | was actually going to get the information for tonight but she has n't been able to and I have n't seen her . |
| 12 | She has only been able to distribute a few as yet , but they know that they 're there and are overjoyed at the prospect of getting them . |
| 13 | Yeah , luckily enough she 's just been able enough to do her own thing ai n't she ? |
| 14 | She 's never been able to afford the upkeep of it . |
| 15 | I , I , think that there is you know , something er ba er mechanically amiss as well , but er you see , you know , she , she says that she 's , she 's certainly been able to visit , which is mum 's favourite expression , a lot better |
| 16 | I write as someone who 's always been able to take or leave Harrison Birtwistle 's music : the oeuvre as a whole arouses my respect , and impresses by its fiercely-defined character and self-consistency , but only a limited number of pieces ( among them The Triumph of Time , The fields of Sorrow , Melancolia I , Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum ) have spoken to me strongly and cried out for repeated listening . |
| 17 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 18 | But no one has yet been able to identify ‘ extra ’ income , and enterprises do not show it as a separate category . |
| 19 | While copyright cases have been won on the grounds that manuals , and other documents that go with software , have been copied , no one has yet been able to claim copyright on the syntax of a computer language . |
| 20 | I understand this theory and , while I am not able to disprove it , I feel that , in the light of all the research which has been done in more recent times , it leaves too many gaps which no one has yet been able to fill . |
| 21 | The word ‘ appears ’ is used advisedly because , although computers have been used to show that the equation does not work for values of n up to several thousand , no one has yet been able to prove for certain that there is no number n greater than 2 for which suitable values of x , y and z can not be slotted in to produce a valid equation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 … |
| 24 | Many of us had our suspicions , but because he covered his tracks so well no one has ever been able to prove anything . |
| 25 | That was five years ago , and he has n't been able to face a strawberry since ! |
| 26 | " It could just be he has n't been able to catch anyone . " |
| 27 | He has n't been able to contact the list since , so we 're not sure what became of him . |
| 28 | He says that his face was badly burnt and it 's meant he has n't been able to take part in his favourite game of rugby . |
| 29 | He has n't been able to tell his family much about the shooting . |
| 30 | But he has n't been able to forget what happened . |