Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergeant Major , you 've been in the Army for about nigh on twenty years now , do you think that a soldier has to be able to cope with that sort of taunting and name calling when he 's on the streets of Belfast for example . |
| 2 | He did n't seem able to agree with this version of his people 's history . |
| 3 | Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope . |
| 4 | the point about membership is that you ought to be able to comment on those suggestions of change and get involved with them on a broad basis . |
| 5 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 6 | The centres will be able to look at all aspects of energy use in a society , and perhaps help convince people with very different interests . |
| 7 | Jones has the bonus of being able to play on both sides of the front row , although Peter Wright , Scotland 's new cap at tight-head , showed the same facility against the Queensland Country Origin XV . |
| 8 | Alf was able to play on either flank of our defence and indeed , on occasions early in his career , in various positions further forward , but it was at left-back that he settled to give of his best from 1958 to 1961 . |
| 9 | I should add that in any event the Bank of England are in my judgment entitled to the presumption of regularity both as to reasonableness and as to the scope of their functions , and Mr. Philipson has not been able to point to any evidence of fact which can not be reconciled with them having the required reasonable opinion . |
| 10 | We will be able to point to those aspects of the enforcer 's experiences which justify their view . |
| 11 | What we are saying is , the patient ought to be able to determine at any stage of their illness what care they receive , and they ought to know what is coming next . |
| 12 | Even authoritarian regimes , if they are to last , must be able to count on some measure of consent , though not necessarily that of a majority . |
| 13 | That might work with the philosophe who put together the doctrine in the first place but it is unlikely to work with a follower who is able to live with all sons of inconsistencies so long as a few slogans can be repeated again and again . |
| 14 | There 's also a close correlation by not just the erm the size of the number for G , but how long can it go on pulling that G given the thrust and the aerodynamic capabilities of the machine and we are essentially building this aircraft so that it can sustain nine G and we are providing the pilot with the sort of equipment he requires to be able to survive in that kind of environment . |
| 15 | Free surveys are available , and trained consultants are able to advise on any type of retail or office property . |
| 16 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 17 | erm , and you 're not likely to be able to get into that line of work again |
| 18 | The important points which emerge from this case are that the employer will be able to rely on this part of the duty of fidelity if it can be shown that the employee works for a trade competitor in his spare time and : ( a ) knows of business secrets which may be of use to the competitor and/or ( b ) occupies a position which makes it expedient to recognise the existence of his duty to work for the employer alone . |
| 19 | Ed : In the space available , G. B. Carter was only able to touch on some aspects of CBDE 's work . |
| 20 | In the meantime , the hot product that is cooking is a duplex version of the 3900 , which will have two print engines and will be able to print on both sides of the paper as customers are demanding . |
| 21 | Yet it was abundantly clear that only when she was away from the influence of the house was she able to return to some semblance of normality . |