Example sentences of "be able [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 2 | It has been previously shown that linear plasmids bearing Tetrahymena telomeric sequences are able to replicate autonomously in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina ( 1 ) . |
| 3 | With this in mind , one must be concerned with how fans gain admission to the Rowdies group , how they are able to progress socially within the group , and with how they are able to graduate out of the group . |
| 4 | think there has to be a er family planning centres have to more on the street , I think family planning clinics have got the people there who are able to go out on the street . |
| 5 | But on Venus , because of its much more massive atmosphere the bending is more marked and we are able to see well beyond the horizon , particularly because the lower atmosphere of Venus is usually very clear . |
| 6 | Crustaceans are able to amble freely among the anemone 's tentacles because their hard exoskeletons protect them from stings from the nematocysts . |
| 7 | I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures . |
| 8 | Launching the highly successful initiative under which schools are able to bid directly for the resources to become Technology Schools . |
| 9 | Also workers are able to commute daily across the river . |
| 10 | After all , unless we can show that we are able to do better with the totality of the sums , and the totality of the business , why should any shareholder believe that we know better how to deal with his money if we are to invest in areas outside our particular expertise , than he can by individual investments ? |
| 11 | All in situ bioremediation schemes in which microorganisms are added require that the injected microorganisms are able to move easily within the subsurface with low degrees of attenuation , or ‘ thinning out ’ of the population due to adsorption on soil particles or natural decay . |
| 12 | Misunderstandings can arise as a result of this , when , for example , teachers see children who are able to run about in the playground with confidence , but seem unable to discriminate printed letters in their reading books . |
| 13 | With this in mind , one must be concerned with how fans gain admission to the Rowdies group , how they are able to progress socially within the group , and with how they are able to graduate out of the group . |
| 14 | It is only through my imaginative shuffling of the aces that we are able to stay ahead of the pack . |
| 15 | In this way those candidates who recognise that they are unsuitable are able to drop out of the process early on . |
| 16 | They are able to do a lot of things that former generations could not do ; for instance a lot of them are able to study now in the legal field , become nurses and so on . |
| 17 | It 's based on the equality of opportunity we talk about , that it should , no matter what your background , erm where you come from , as Marianne rightly says , you are able to get right to the top . |
| 18 | By doing this the work of the council is expedited and the officers of the council are able to get on with the instructions of the committee without waiting for confirmation by the council of the decisions of the committee . |
| 19 | Staff are able to contribute instead to the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme or contribute to a personal pension scheme . |
| 20 | Many more people are able to contribute creatively to the solution of organisational problems than do so . |
| 21 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 22 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 23 | In the second group , there were those countries , like Kenya , who had never been able to borrow much from the banks . |
| 24 | Sir Mark summed up the mood of SERC when he commented that ‘ despite a difficult climate , SERC had been able to respond imaginatively to the financial situation . ’ |
| 25 | It was as if someone had been trapped inside and had kicked and beaten the door — perhaps without success — until the power had gone and they had been able to drive back down the hill . |
| 26 | He took out the slim dossier on Mikhail Vologsky which he had been able to put together over the past few weeks . |
| 27 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 28 | In hotter climates the Sussex has demonstrated several advantages : it has a smooth coat , and twice as many sweat glands as other European breeds ( in this respect it is on a par with the Africander ) and has been able to adapt well to the heat . |
| 29 | A police report submitted to a congressional commission the same month stated that García Meza , ignoring a Supreme Court restriction on his movements , had hitherto been able to move freely around the country under military protection . |
| 30 | Many Libyans especially in the smaller towns had been able to move out of the path of oncoming measures of social justice : many would not have been affected in any case ; some had no doubt been caught . |