Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We 've also been able to have a great deal more equality . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | because we 've not been able to talk to people |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We 've never been able to offer you such big , comfortable suites as in our exclusive new American Colonial Collection . |
| 11 | We 've never been able to discover anything about his parents . ’ |
| 12 | Mrs Ainsworth appeared at my elbow , " That 's something we 've never been able to find out . " |
| 13 | ‘ If you could make contact with Bell , it might give us an in we 've never been able — ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As white lesbians , because of our racism , we had not been able to work out a joint analysis of heterosexism with Black lesbian workers , because we had no knowledge of the implications and ramifications of heterosexism in their lives . |
| 17 | We had never been able to afford to go on holidays — Dad had had to work all the time — so school holidays had been spent at home . |
| 18 | As a result ‘ we have not been able to take advantage of what the City has to offer . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And , yes , we have not been able to employ them straight away , though they could come into the orchestra to sit with the principals as a co-pilot sits with the pilot . |
| 21 | Mr Binstead , who says he has investigated many similar offers , none of which have produced loans , said : ‘ We are making inquiries , but we have not been able to establish whether these offers are going to come through . ’ |
| 22 | The plane did not return and we have not been able to find out what happened . |
| 23 | We have not been able to establish if anyone got into the cab with him outside the Civil Engineers ' Hall . |
| 24 | ‘ Despite intensive efforts for nearly a year , we have not been able to find a satisfactory formula either in terms of price or consistency of supply ’ he said . |
| 25 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 26 | With the limited resources available at our disposal we have not been able to build too many expert systems and most of these have been on a small scale . |
| 27 | ‘ We have not been able to establish a true motive , ’ said Mr Gough . |
| 28 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 29 | ‘ We have not been able to account for him and we do n't know where he is and we 're very much interested in talking to him , ’ he said . |
| 30 | We regret that this article on the KH864 means we have not been able to bring you Diane Bennett 's regular feature . |