Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you been able to gather together the whole of your father 's former collection ? |
| 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 | However , this is all due to change with the proposed introduction of a new chain ferry which will be able to carry twice the number of cars . |
| 4 | Benny could see her mother sitting there stretching her hand out full of what she had been full of for months now : the huge advantages of being able to come home every night by bus . |
| 5 | The committee had not been able to establish clearly the cost of nuclear power but agreed that it was at least 2@1/2 times the cost estimated before privatization was considered . |
| 6 | No research , not even that of Stillman Drake , the leading authority on Galileo , has been able to establish unequivocally the truth about the Scheiner claim . |
| 7 | A corporatist model is neither confirmed nor falsified by evidence of the autonomy of state officials , but such accounts must be able to evaluate precisely the role of elected governing elites , and the importance of their struggle for office . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The law reports , both of this country and of other jurisdictions , contain many statements emphasising the importance of the right , in a democratic society , to be able to criticise freely the conduct of affairs by public authorities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Note here the contrast between closed- and open.loop control schemes ; with open-loop control the downcounter is able to record only the number of step commands sent to the motor and there is no guarantee that these steps have been executed . |
| 13 | She will be able to predict first-hand the impact of operating lists and other ward events . |
| 14 | You should be able to do quite a bit of useful contemplation about whether you actually love this boyfriend of yours . ’ |
| 15 | I should be able to consider seriously the idea of escape , and talk over problems of disguise and frontier crossings with other people for whom the war was not yet over . |
| 16 | Bob has even been able to sketch outdoors a couple of times . |
| 17 | I have to admit Mr Graham has a point here , but all I can say is that after one has been in the profession as long as one has , one is able to judge intuitively the depth of a man 's professionalism without having to see it under pressure . |
| 18 | I want here to begin to develop a conceptual framework that is able to assess critically the effect of the collision of two discourses — that of , race' and that of female sexuality . |
| 19 | The use of words and symbols to influence other people in predictable ways requires that the child must be able to represent mentally the relationship between the symbol ( word or gesture ) , the meaning for which it stands and the intended effect on the other person . |
| 20 | This group of three- and four-year-olds were quite happy on their own , but by listening their teacher was able to learn quite a lot about their use of words and understanding of their meaning . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Even a good marriage may not be able to deliver quite the cocktail of intuition , sympathy , honesty , and insight . |
| 23 | Additionally , the project has also been able to localise successfully the disruption to those tasks in which the order of information has to be preserved . |
| 24 | The government should be able to get quite a lot of the new indirect tax money it is counting on . |
| 25 | But I 'm able to get quite a lot of information and I 'm saying this because you too can get it . |
| 26 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 27 | Even in the sudden rush from the Store the nomes had been able to bring quite a lot of stuff . |