Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who can see — or who has ever been able to see — is able to visualize . |
| 2 | ‘ Although I have n't been able to convince myself . ’ |
| 3 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 5 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
| 6 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 7 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 8 | It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football . |
| 9 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 10 | Now I might forget some of them but , er , what about er , you , seeing as how your skill is one that I have n't been able to acquire yet , Jo how did you get to make the perfect quiche . |
| 11 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 12 | Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination . |
| 13 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
| 14 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
| 15 | There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | My home is 90 miles away , so I have n't been able to afford to go back very often . |
| 18 | The original bouquet for this picture was exceptionally large , so I have not been able to reproduce a life-sized replica but instead have scaled it down to fit into a picture frame . |
| 19 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 20 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 21 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 22 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 23 | She explained that she had not been able to bring herself to discuss things with them , although she had managed to speak to her married brother , who had been very supportive and helpful . |
| 24 | She was bitterly sad that she had not been able to see her aunt before she died . |
| 25 | Riding one of Jennie 's fabulous dressage schoolmasters , Katharine was able to experience a whole host of dressage movements from flying changes to pirouettes that she had never been able to try before . |
| 26 | After Mark 's funeral Robyn 's lips had been so painful that she had hardly been able to speak or smile for days — but then that had suited her fine , still suited her , although no one guessed , except Anne perhaps . |
| 27 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 28 | and then go back over stuff that you 've done earlier that you have n't been able to understand where you 've felt , Ooh I do n't know what 's going on here . |
| 29 | Does n't it worry you that you have n't been able really to make an efficient crackdown here and your officers are still suffering attacks ? |
| 30 | The loss of a significant relationship through death is , however , likely to be one that we have not been able to prepare for much in advance , and it is likely to be a loss that we do regret . |