Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year .
2 But we were able to drive home under our own power .
3 ‘ But I would not have been able to concentrate properly on my own game .
4 able to come here on my own .
5 There was a Burma Research Society in which both Burmese and European scholars took part , and I was able to learn much from its regular lectures and its quarterly journal .
6 And unlike the US and some of Europe , the UK mail order business has never been able to break away from its traditional downmarket image .
7 Well there could be a whole range of different therapies that would be appropriate , depending on on the individual needs of the persons involved , erm but certainly in in a therapeutic situation erm one is able to establish a relationship with another caring adult that can readdress those erm perhaps foundations in the personality that were not able to develop appropriately in their early childhood .
8 The Weberian claim that the professions are able to act primarily in their own interests has been called into question .
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