Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that this scheme will be able to light up a town of about 30,000 people , just as my hon. Friend can today , almost single-handedly , light up her constituency . |
| 2 | In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , on the first night of the war he was able to round up a ring of twenty-one German spies in an effectively timed and executed coup which probably deprived the Germans of any information on Britain 's initial military dispositions . |
| 4 | By studying numerous manuscripts , textual critics have been able to work out a set of principles which can be applied to many different sorts of document . |
| 5 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 6 | and he would be only able to pick out a lot of the basic words , he could probably pick out the beginning of appreciation |
| 7 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
| 8 | The Committee have been able to smooth out a lot of anxieties on this item , although it is impossible to make everyone happy on such a diverse subject . |
| 9 | Support staff , numerically increased in some areas , but threatened with further reductions in others , are able to reach only a minority of the estimated number of children in need of special attention . |
| 10 | As a result of their conversations they were able to draw up a list of MPs favourable to abolition . |
| 11 | Republicans say Mr Bush 's win on capital gains suggests that the White House might be able to put together a majority of its own for budget restraint , with or without the Democratic leaders . |
| 12 | These seemed to be excellent local background material and I was able to use quite a number of facts from the pamphlets , giving the appropriate reference in each case . |
| 13 | You should be able to do quite a bit of useful contemplation about whether you actually love this boyfriend of yours . ’ |
| 14 | Detetives still have n't been able to build up a description of the attacker but they believe he may have worked with horses in the past . |
| 15 | Using a technique perfected by medical artists , they hope to be able to build up a picture of what the princess would have looked like twenty centuries ago . |
| 16 | Bob has even been able to sketch outdoors a couple of times . |
| 17 | Then he was able to lift back a flap of skin each side of the incision and get to the extra body fluid that had collected around my wrist . |
| 18 | By 1990 , 1 understand , everyone in France with a phone will be able to call up a display of any number he wants , in just 15 seconds . |
| 19 | I have been able to offer only a summary of the GR-1 's facilities , knowing that the curious amongst you will want to seek one out and demand a ‘ hands on ’ demo at your leisure . |
| 20 | They had microwave ovens where he was able to heat up a portion of hot food to eat in the car . |
| 21 | The government should be able to get quite a lot of the new indirect tax money it is counting on . |
| 22 | But I 'm able to get quite a lot of information and I 'm saying this because you too can get it . |
| 23 | " If at the end of seven years , he can make up the fraction of a quarto forme and impose it , or is able to lay down a sheet of 16 's correctly , the apprentice so qualified may considered himself well advanced . " |
| 24 | The trainees should be able to lay out a sequence of responses to this simple situation of Katy 's . |
| 25 | Any manufacturing jeweller would honestly be able to take over a consignment of several hundred , especially if he were offered a 10 or 15 per cent discount on market price . |
| 26 | So you are able to print out a section of the design that is 45 squares wide , and 38 squares high . |
| 27 | Even in the sudden rush from the Store the nomes had been able to bring quite a lot of stuff . |
| 28 | When Rob broke a leg she was able to make up a lot of lost ground and was selected to the British Team two seasons before him in 1981 . |