Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [adv] able [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the investigating officer , using his own personal radio , or the officer accompanying him is then usually able to check those details almost immediately on the police national computer . |
| 2 | Irritable but excited , as though he were only just able to hold something important under control . |
| 3 | The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised . |
| 4 | Edit , cut , amend , interpolate or transpose what he will , there is — he began to realize — a dimension beyond him which he is not now able to reach or to shift . |
| 5 | He is so seldom able to stay in London . ’ |
| 6 | Nevertheless , he was probably better able to communicate directly with his people than were most other African leaders — more so , for example , than neighbouring nationalist leaders like Samora Machel in Mozambique , Milton Obote in Uganda or Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia . |
| 7 | After August 1691 , he was no longer able to leave his house . |
| 8 | Franco repeated the message of his 2 December letter when he said that he did not " see any advantage in change " and that if he were ever to delegate the leadership of the government , it would only be when he was no longer able to carry out the functions of that position as well as those of head of state . |
| 9 | Latterly Dad had sobered much when he was no longer able to perform his old feats of strength and daring . |
| 10 | 11–2–1903 The Moderator intimated that owing to the state of his health he was no longer able to perform all his duties and resolved to ask the General Assembly for a grant from the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund to aid in securing the services of an unordained assistant . |
| 11 | When he was no longer able to provide this , Dorothy Hardisty persuaded the International Student Service , who were already paying Hella £20 a year , to increase their grant . |
| 12 | Now , however , four days later , having escaped into Austria himself , Loehr was making a final attempt to surrender his forces to the British , saying that he was not longer able to control the movement northwards into Austria either of his own German troops , or of a huge column of Croat troops and civilian refugees advancing from Zagreb on the frontier town of Dravograd , south-east of Klagenfurt . |
| 13 | He was not only able to make most of his subjects feel proud of being Italians but also succeeded to a great extent in making them believe that his great dream of giving Italy an important place in the world , as important as that of Britain and France , could become a reality . |
| 14 | He was however never able to sign it . |