Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publishers must be able to reach out to the widest possible audience . |
| 2 | After the seventh war with the Turks ( 1714–18 ) the Venetians were able to advance up to the present Bosnian border , taking in the whole of Sinjsko Polje and Imotski . |
| 3 | He told the major he feared that in retiring to the palace he was imprisoning himself and would never be able to escape back to the real world . |
| 4 | I now wanted desperately to belong to the Christian church in general ( which to me , from my Free Church background , was what baptism implied ) while not able to belong specifically to the Anglican Church ( which was what confirmation implied ) so long as that church discriminated against women . |
| 5 | If she could make her way along to the right ladder , she would be able to climb up to the painted clouds high overhead . |
| 6 | But so too have been the threats , for not all were able to respond adequately to the new standards set by the leaders . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | You may also be able to refer back to a recent rise in merit pay or bonus in your response . |
| 9 | The view expressed by Lawani & Bayer , that self-citations are used as an ego-enhancement , can not be tested in the present case , and should be rejected in the absence of evidence , because it is essential for an author to be able to refer back to the unpublished parts of theses . |
| 10 | erm how long this system will go on for , well in order to be able to refer back to the nineteen nineties , who knows we might , neither of us might be here |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Because the elite , through their superior wealth , are better able to live up to the so-called modern values , which are all the more costly to support because of their external source , they are further differentiated from the poor . |
| 13 | There would be no wasted space and we would still be able to turn directly to the required name . |
| 14 | Would I be able to change back to the old registration plates ? |
| 15 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 16 | His drawings were so clear and he was always able to get directly to the important issues . |
| 17 | By that time we should have sorted out this business of the poison pen letter and you 'll be able to get back to a normal life again . ’ |
| 18 | It is able to move on to the next stage of the action if the various relevant conditions have been satisfied and to produce documentation for court or reminders for the debt recovery unit personnel to enable them to progress matters beyond the next stage . |
| 19 | With the aid of navigational satellites , the ship would be able to return repeatedly to the same area of ocean . |
| 20 | If that was the case , it seemed unlikely that he would ever be able to return safely to the Middle East , but three months later , the DIA showed it still had plans for him . |