Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | His achievements as Labour leader have earned him respect and admiration , but he has not been able to appeal beyond the party in which he has made his life . |
| 2 | The administrative burden would be lifted from local government ; it would then be able to concentrate on the job in hand . |
| 3 | Where such an understanding develops the teacher is more able to relate to the child in the classroom . |
| 4 | In the case of the Blackwood By-Pass , I have passed your letter and the public consultation paper to our Gwent Branch in the hope that they will be able to look at the scheme in more detail . |
| 5 | In 186 B.C. there were Galatian mercenaries in Egypt who were able to announce to the world in perfect Greek from the little temple of Horus in Abydos " We of the corps of the Galatians have come and have captured a fox " ( Bitten berger , OGIS 757 ) . |
| 6 | Amusingly , the one threat she had encountered was from another ‘ Queen of the Night ’ , a grossly huge woman , who only felt able to emerge into the world in the dead of night , and was enraged to find another woman watching her take her secret walk in the darkness . |
| 7 | Only after the mysterious mass extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago were our ancestors able to emerge into the daylight in any substantial numbers . |
| 8 | Mr Hutchinson , who said wallabies would be able to live in the wild in Britain on their diet of grass and fruit , appealed to anyone seeing Wally to call him on 0207521133 . |
| 9 | But the right balance is not something which partners should expect to be able to settle at the outset in such a way as will necessarily be appropriate throughout the life of the firm . |
| 10 | You have to agree to keep up payments for ten years and normally will not be able to get at the cash in the meantime . |
| 11 | Roy Hattersley knew that Neil Kinnock , from his starting point on Labour 's left , was able to take on the ultra-left in a way he never could have done . |
| 12 | There is a very substantial and relevant literature of research , practical discussion and theory to be mastered before language work can be developed with the sophistication that English graduates are able to bring to the work in literature . |