Example sentences of "been able [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had someone insisted he had seen me in Romorantin , or further afield , I should not have been able to confirm or deny the sighting . |
| 2 | Other Allemandi titles include a Catalogo della Manifattura Lenci by Alfonso Panzetta , who by studying documentary and photographic material kept at the Turin factory has been able to classify and illustrate the Lenci ceramics workshop 's entire output ( L200,000 ) ; and Ralph Jentsch 's The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy , published for the current exhibition devoted to the Italian livre d'artiste at New York 's MoMA . |
| 3 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 4 | The primate house has been a key stage in the zoo 's development and we have been able to plan and equip the house and enclosure to the very highest standards , pooling animal management expertise and design ideas . |
| 5 | When I was twelve , and I got baptized , erm a lady gave me a little text and it was from Joshua chapter one and it was verse nine and it says have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be terrified , do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go and that 's a verse that I 've been able to remember and to thank God for on so many different occasions all through my training as a doctor and it 's , all the promises in the bible are absolutely true and you can rely on them because it 's not a book written by men but it 's a book written by God . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At the end of the session , June Braithwaite said she had found it useful ; she had not needed to become hysterical , and he had not been able to leave and disappear into the kitchen . |
| 8 | In this way we have been able to analyze and classify all the internal modes of the PH 3 groups . |
| 9 | I have not been able to sleep or eat . |
| 10 | I have n't been able to sleep or eat or anything . |
| 11 | ‘ I have n't been able to sleep or eat since our last meeting and , from the way you look , neither have you , ’ he said , taking in the discarded food and her too slender form with one glance . |
| 12 | The Bureau has undertaken several studies which have combined systematic econometric testing with economic analysis of particular equations or sectors of the models , and has been able to reconcile and resolve many of the differences in treatment between the models , in turn translating this resolution into its impact on full model properties . |
| 13 | Without the help of ACET and other direct service organisations and charities , I would not have been able to continue and maintain my independence . |
| 14 | Without the help of ACET and other similar organisations I would not have been able to continue and maintain my independence . |
| 15 | Just for a change the Doctor and his party have been able to relax and unwind awhile after so many strenuous adventures . |
| 16 | The most successful zones have not been where the public sector has withdrawn , but where ( as in Corby or the Isle of Dogs ) one public-sector agency has been able to acquire and to service land for private developers and occupiers . |
| 17 | For the last ten years , we 've been able to retire and keep our living standards up . |
| 18 | Where critical psychologies have written off conventional psychology , as with marxist and other radical psychologies in the 1960s , the mainstream discipline has been able to ignore or co-opt them . |
| 19 | I 'd have told Jamie as much , too , if I 'd been able to talk and had n't been concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other . |
| 20 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
| 21 | Following the earlier reduction of similar size Amdahl says it has been able to restructure or consolidate a number of operations and the new cuts represent a further streamlining . |
| 22 | Following the earlier reduction of similar size Amdahl says it has been able to restructure or consolidate a number of operations and the new cuts represent a further streamlining . |
| 23 | By locating these and hammering stakes into the ground at strategic points they have been able to divert or stop the streams and return the house or area to a healthy state . |
| 24 | Adults , who have been able to read and spell for years , tend to forget what it was like when they could n't unless they have recently learnt a foreign language . |
| 25 | Only in the last hundred years have most people in the developed world been able to read and write . |
| 26 | Few of Camille 's schoolmates , even had they been able to read and write , would go on to a career in the sciences , since the chemistry lab had been the first to succumb , years back , when the rules had just been relaxed and attitudes to education liberalized . |
| 27 | The cell , although uncomfortable and oppressive , made for a haven of quiet and stillness within which Bernice had been able to calm and draw out the traumatized girl . |
| 28 | He was a quiet baby , watchful , with a stillness about him which , if he had not been able to crawl and stand and almost walk , would have been a cause for concern . |
| 29 | So he has followed a dual approach , honouring the supply to the supermarkets while continuing to supply and expand the local market ; it is only in this way that the operation has been able to survive and continue to provide a quality product while supporting a number of local employees and their families . |
| 30 | We 've been able to advise and help the the members . |