Example sentences of "able [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If total patient care is practised , the learner is able to report her observations on the progress of the patient and learn first-hand about future care . |
| 2 | Equally , if the developer acted unreasonably , the council and third parties may be able to claim their costs from the developer . |
| 3 | It is only by being so that he is able to concentrate his efforts on the detailed articulation of the paradigm and to perform the esoteric work necessary to probe nature in depth . |
| 4 | At least for the moment , Scapula was able to concentrate his forces on the western frontier , which now extended to the Wye and the Severn . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher , for example , was able to impose her policies against the opposition of large parts of the population with less difficulty than President Gorbachev faced in pushing through perestroika . |
| 6 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 7 | Voluntary settlements ( in particular family settlements made after marriage ) are set aside by a bankruptcy if made within two years before ; and even if made within ten years before , unless it is shown that at the time the bankrupt was able to meet his liabilities without the settled property . |
| 8 | Unsurprisingly , it was a subject that frequently cropped up at the dinner table , especially when visitors were present and Sir Gregory was able to pick their brains on the latest news from Rome , Paris or Madrid . |
| 9 | ‘ I was deeply grateful for our conversation yesterday morning and being able to pick your brains on the subjects was an immense help . |
| 10 | The stoma care nurse and ward nurses were able to answer his questions over the next few days and also showed Mr Reynolds some of the bags which can be worn over a stoma and let him practise handling these . |
| 11 | The lender ( or group of lenders ) is expected to be able to fulfil its obligations under the facility . |
| 12 | I am delighted to be able to express my congratulations to the Society on the occasion of its 40th anniversary celebrations . |
| 13 | It is good to know that he was able to share his tears with the hospital chaplain . |
| 14 | Alternatively , the Soviets might select the site at Brawdy as a target for a sudden nuclear strike in order to demonstrate that they were able to protect their submarines in the Atlantic and so maintain the nuclear threat which the presence of such posed to the United States . |
| 15 | But with practice the student will be able to lift his feet off the floor . |
| 16 | He was therefore able to expand his studies in the way that was ultimately to produce Capital , his main theoretical work . |
| 17 | At first I found the ceremonial rather strange , but once I realised the significance of the ceremony and ritual I appreciated the service to the full and was able to add my services to the whole — as each member of the congregation can take a very definite part in the service if he or she has the will , and knows what is meant by the different ceremonies performed . |
| 18 | It was n't until they had come to a halt that she had felt able to raise her eyes from the floor and look at the two men standing by the alter rail . |
| 19 | But they will be able to raise their children in the village they call home . |
| 20 | Today it is a relatively minor part of the sterling parallel money market due to many Finance Houses obtaining bank status , and therefore able to raise their funds on the sterling inter-bank market . |
| 21 | She was fortunate in that her income came from a family trust fund , so Ralph had never been able to get his hands on the capital . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , Jessica was not able to lay her hands on the flags , which had been put somewhere among the jumble in the attic . |
| 23 | It is too early to say whether IBM 's competitors in the database arena will be able to adapt their products to the new hardware at an affordable cost . |
| 24 | League president Gordon McKeag said : ‘ A response was received from Barnet to confirm that they will be able to honour their commitments to the Football League and , for the moment , we will have to accept that . ’ |
| 25 | Roy Nash ( 1973 , p. 17 ) discovered that pupils as young as eight years were able to say which children in the class were better than them at reading , writing and number ; and their self-perceived class rank correlated highly with the rankings made by the teacher at the researcher 's request ( and therefore not explicitly available hitherto for communication to the children ) . |
| 26 | This alarms others who are unimpressed by being able to order their groceries down the tube and remember the TV-eye in Orwell 's 1984 which spied on the populace as well as thundering propaganda messages at them . |
| 27 | This gave the organisers a chance to check their arrangements for crowd control , while Richie and Patrick were able to test their radios over the full extent of the course . |
| 28 | You may also be able to store your notes on the equivalent of index cards on a computer ( in a database , or in word-processing document files ) . |
| 29 | Licensed semiconductor partners will be able to involve their customers at the beginning of the design process and Sun says its current intention is to facilitate early design adoption and volume sales as soon as silicon is production ready , independent of its own system products becoming available . |
| 30 | That would help to show the universal determination of all parties in the House to achieve an answer that will provide a proper future for British agriculture and enable me at least to be able to tell my companions in the negotiations that there are things that matter so much to us that we will sit there until we achieve them , even if it means that we will sit there for many more months to come . |