Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [adv] been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 2 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 3 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 4 | There they will remain for most of April , at least one of the pair on guard at all times on the loch in order to ward off any attempted ‘ take-over ’ , perhaps by young pairs who have n't been able to locate a suitable breeding site . |
| 5 | The Westernizers and Slavophiles who had hitherto been able to voice their opinions only with extreme caution embarked upon a deliberate policy of circulating handwritten memoranda . |
| 6 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , a blow has been struck for the land-owning taxpayer , particularly those less well-off individuals who have not been able to defend themselves against the local district valuer 's increasingly aggressive commercial techniques . |
| 8 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 9 | We have not forgotten this offer , although for various reasons we have not been able to develop an idea until now . |
| 10 | I could say some of the things I had n't been able to say when I left him , because I had n't shared his feelings then . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She needed several things she had not been able to bring away from the Holborn house ; chemises , petticoats , nightgowns , drawers , a frilled nightcap that had taken her fancy , stockings , handkerchiefs . |
| 13 | They say they 're having to deal with more and more dogs owned by families who have n't been able to give them the exercise they need . |
| 14 | Their house is a repository rich with the things they have n't been able to bring themselves to sell . |
| 15 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 16 | A second round of voting , in constituencies which had not been able to complete their quota of candidates , was announced for May 8 ; in this round , the candidates with most votes would be declared elected , even if they received less than the 30 per cent required for election in the first round . |
| 17 | Scientists themselves have always been able to work in laboratories during the week , and to pray in places of worship at the week-end , by accepting the separation of the domains . |
| 18 | ‘ I was a Classic in my youth , madam , and although I have always been deeply interested in the works of the Roman poets and the Roman historians I have never been able to summon up much enthusiasm for Roman architecture . |
| 19 | From Pepita 's symptoms he had rapidly been able to diagnose what kind of spider had bitten her and administer the antidote to its poison . |
| 20 | J. Roberts regretted that due to his many commitments he had not been able to play as active a role in the Society during the past year as he would have wished . |
| 21 | A similar thing has happened to Ms , especially in Britain and Australia : instead of replacing Miss and Mrs it has been added to the system to make a further distinction , referring in many people 's usage to older unmarried women , divorcees and ‘ strident feminists ’ — in other words , to ‘ abnormal ’ and ‘ unfeminine ’ women who have not been able to get — or keep — a man . |
| 22 | They wanted to reopen Sadler 's Wells with Carmen , Aida , Trovatore , operas they had n't been able to perform during the war . |