Example sentences of "be able [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
| 2 | Most sufferers are able to return to their own homes and employment after the completion of four or five weeks of residential treatment . |
| 3 | And the more these artists are able to work on their own , or become very powerful , then the more precious and ungrown-up they tend to become . |
| 4 | Such beliefs are able to stand on their own feet , without support from others . |
| 5 | They are able to identify from their own records those types who are the loyal customers — where average order value is highest , where bad debt is lowest , and where responsiveness to mailshots is highest . |
| 6 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 7 | Although I demonstrated the advantages of the ‘ hot mike ’ system to ICAO and to the US National Transportation Safety Board in 1979 , the resistance to retrospective modifications ( because of the cost involved ) which the US airlines are able to organise through their congressional lobbying activities has prevented its introduction in the USA . |
| 8 | I am able to say to my right hon. Friend that I raised that matter with President Yeltsin very forcibly indeed . |
| 9 | Parents have to trust that what they have taught in earlier years and , ideally , been able to demonstrate in their own relationship together , will have provided patterns to be followed . |
| 10 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 11 | Central to child-rearing from the cultural point of view , as we have seen , is that by the time he is six or seven the child should have been able to recapitulate within his own personal psychological development the development history of his culture . |
| 12 | SINCE 1991 , unit trust managers have been able to move from their traditional equity gilt and money market funds into the worlds of property and the mysteriously named warrants , futures and options . |
| 13 | He had wondered , also , how much the mediciner had been able to guess about his own mind and nature . |
| 14 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 15 | Yet the image had addressed Jaq as if some outside force had been able to intervene in his holy trance through the agency of that Discordia card , hacking into the pack . |
| 16 | ’ Now I feel that I 'm able to fight for my full rights as a woman and as a human being … |
| 17 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 18 | She guessed he found it intriguing to be able to talk about his consuming interest in the sport with a girl who not only knew what he was talking about , but could actually offer opinions that were interesting . |
| 19 | I hope er that you will be able to choose from our wide range of crackers and favours , just what you want to enhance your special day . |
| 20 | To succeed , they have to be able to draw on their full resources , built up over a lifetime . |
| 21 | From 19 July you will be able to purchase from your local stores a large range of gifts — carrying our new logo — at competitive prices . |
| 22 | This teacher afterwards remarked that she could not just ‘ set ’ activities such as problem-solving or project work of this kind and expect the children to be able to manage on their own . |
| 23 | All the tools that you need are there and with intelligent use you should be able to manage on your own most of the time . |
| 24 | But now she will be able to return to her outspoken , opinionated self . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems that you would need a vessel such as that in which you came , before you would be able to return to your own world . |
| 26 | However , the patient may be able to return to his own job , when he is sufficiently recovered . |
| 27 | The only way in which we can be convinced that the situation in South Africa is getting better is by abolishing all the racist laws , doing away with the whole system of apartheid , allowing every adult to be able to decide on their own future , in other words universal adult suffrage . |
| 28 | The masses are usually characterised by Class 2 residues , which the governing elite has to be able to manipulate for its own purposes . |
| 29 | With reduced cow numbers ( courtesy of quotas ) and some investment in fencing and sheep handling , I hope we shall be able to cope with our reduced labour force especially as Chrissie is out teaching more and more . |
| 30 | But they wo n't be able to deal with their main sources of production , as er Professor Bradshaw said there , they 're going to have absolutely you 've got no control over the track on on which they operate , and they ar going to have to hire their carriages from and rolling stock from a separate leasing company , so their room for manoeuvre is limited to say the least . |