Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mrs Critten has an invalid husband , so is unable to get out and about very much , but thanks to Denise and Julia she is able to carry on with her Machine Knitting . |
| 3 | He has to be able to sit upright in his chair using his trunk muscles , without pulling or pushing himself up using his unaffected arm . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps this might be done through correspondence , to answer some of the above questions , or , in the very near future Peter might be able to go further on his explanation of the campaign strategy . |
| 6 | He 's therefore been stuck , living on er friends ' floors for the last few weeks , not being able to go back to his girlfriend and not being able to see his children , er and Madam that 's had an effect on his , on his business as well . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's now able to concentrate solely on his football , and it 's beginning to dawn on him just how good he really is . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | His only concern at that time was whether his marriage was going to be able to stand up to his time in jail . |
| 10 | Until recently it has tended to be a middle-class , if not an upper-class , home where the father prides himself on being able to provide well for his family , and the mother prides herself on being a good ‘ homemaker ’ who runs the establishment with precise efficiency , giving careful consideration to the basic ( i.e. material ) needs of all the occupants . |
| 11 | and slow down , keep a safe distance , you should always be able to pull up within your range of vision , what else do n't you do , what do n't you do in fog ? |
| 12 | ‘ Criminals are able to listen in to our car and personal radios with them and that gives them an early warning of our approach . ’ |
| 13 | It 's so important for a wife to be able to look up to her husband . |
| 14 | By the way , your ma will be able to help out at your dairy for a month or two as I 'm cutting down on the number of cows at the manor . |
| 15 | But at the end of a very long , very hard life , he was still able to smile enthusiastically into his son 's lens and show that his experiences had n't got the better of him . |
| 16 | Mr will be able to sleep silently in his bed . |
| 17 | He would have to break out of his semi-catatonic state to be able to deal properly with his family responsibilities , let alone all the media attention . |
| 18 | Ownership is not available only to those able to raise their own mortgage or whose parents are able to do so on their behalf . |
| 19 | It would have been nice to be able to keep out of his way . |
| 20 | Pistoliers can also be useful in this role , as well as being able to ride up to your enemy and unload hard-hitting gunpowder weapons in his face . |
| 21 | Because that would mean that he would have been able to hold on to his job . |
| 22 | She had a driving licence , which would enable her to drive the practice 's pet-ambulance , but she had never been able to save much from her salary . |
| 23 | Many women still marry for economic reasons , able to live better on their husband 's earnings than on their own . |
| 24 | Best of all , Joe was sure of being able to stay home after his trip . |
| 25 | Meetings therefore always took place at five-thirty in the evening , a time when a politician , a lawyer or a captain of industry might be expected to be able to get away from his office for an important private occasion . |
| 26 | So it looks as if cameramen ( rather than the proposed cameramans ) will be able to get on with their work in the Gulf ; the beloved accent on abîme will not fall into the abyss ; and the whole affair will have been a non-événement . |
| 27 | Its status is such that those who work within this dominant tradition have generally felt able to get on with their work without having to reflect on its theoretical foundations . |
| 28 | We were able to get on with our routine work without too much drama unfolding around us , and we started to dream of what we would do when the war was over . |
| 29 | Whatever their opinion of him he was clearly in touch with other artists , as in April 1808 he complains bitterly of not being able to get on with his painting because of other artists coming to see his work . |
| 30 | The gardener had become a hermit because he could not abide fools ; but since the bear spoke scarcely three words in the course of the day , he was able to get on with his work without disturbance . |