Example sentences of "be able [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment may mean that people have more leisure time available but lack of money restricts the kind of activities they are able to participate in during their spare time . |
| 2 | When snow many feet deep blankets the land and the lake is covered with ice , the beavers are able to swim out from their lodge beneath the ice , retrieve the green branches and feed on them throughout the winter . |
| 3 | Through her interactions with the children , the teacher is engaged in a continual process of crafting and recrafting the environment , building on their existing collaborative resources , and gradually extending the range of collaboration which children choose and are able to engage in by themselves . |
| 4 | ‘ Criminals are able to listen in to our car and personal radios with them and that gives them an early warning of our approach . ’ |
| 5 | Education is one of the privileges that bureaucrats increasingly are able to pass on to their offspring , together with their important connections in the state apparatus , which Cliff maintains is used as their private property ( Cliff 1964 ) . |
| 6 | Students have to show that they understand what has been learned so deeply that they are able to look down on it and assess it critically for themselves . |
| 7 | This power derives , not from any superior individual or institutional competence , but from the strategically important role which these interests have been able to mark out for themselves in American society . |
| 8 | It was kicked around like a football from family to family , none of whom seemed to have loved it or to have been able to hold on to it for long . |
| 9 | Because that would mean that he would have been able to hold on to his job . |
| 10 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never been able to get through to you , Julius . ’ |
| 12 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |
| 13 | It was another miracle that it was so near the hospital , and that the driver of the car , who had been able to step out of it without any aid , had in fact been a Fitzwilliam Square doctor himself , who had known exactly what to do . |
| 14 | Frankie and Chopper were on Freddie 's heels , but Billy had not been able to keep up with them . |
| 15 | This striding away would not have mattered if the Padre had been able to keep up with him … but the Padre could not move unaided . |
| 16 | Eventually it may become so big that one of the young sons may be able to set up on his own in one corner of it . |
| 17 | These are both the kind of information you should be able to pick up at your local field , in exactly the same form . |
| 18 | She was nearly sixteen ; if she refused to go and told her mother so herself , Anna , they reckoned , would not be able to go through with it . |
| 19 | And anyway if they were super models who would be able to go out with one so sad . |
| 20 | Chris had written a letter to Tina Jelly in Aldershot saying that he still loved her and missed her a lot , but was sure that until he came home she would be able to go out with his mates from the Royal Signals . |
| 21 | You wo n't be able to wriggle out of it , then . |
| 22 | If the receiver succeeds in his plans to sell the company as a going concern then most of them might be able to hang on to their positions . |
| 23 | Even moving from high to low cost areas can raise difficulties — employees may doubt that they will ever be able to move back to their home areas or other more expensive regions once they have committed themselves to living in a lower cost housing area . |
| 24 | Still , I suppose you would have to develop a certain detachment , otherwise you 'd never be able to carry on with what you 're working on at the moment . ’ |
| 25 | Rule-following as a practice must therefore be able to carry on without anything to support it , and we must attempt to wean ourselves away from the feeling of vertigo which is engendered by our recognition of the lack of support . |
| 26 | We recognised there was a need to ensure quality and consistency in everything we did , to be able to point out to our customers how we do things , and where necessary to be audited on these procedures . |
| 27 | No ; not a boy , a man , one who would be able to stand up to her father and say , ‘ It 's done , she 's mine . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I wo n't be able to stand up to them like you , Adam . ’ |
| 29 | Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment . |
| 30 | His only concern at that time was whether his marriage was going to be able to stand up to his time in jail . |