Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was able to carry out the simple reward programme which worked very well and then progressed to rewarding Luke for passing a motion in the lavatory . |
| 2 | Volunteers should be able to carry out the minimal work involved , though some dioceses seem curiously reluctant to accept offers of help of this kind . |
| 3 | The long period of housing the stock meant that the farmer was able to carry out the necessary work in the mornings and evenings . |
| 4 | Mrs Howard said : ‘ Unless we are given a lot more resources we will not be able to carry out the weekly monitoring required . |
| 5 | Later today we shall be able to debate further the great improvement in standards that we are achieving as a result of our reforms . |
| 6 | ‘ And Mama has written to say how grateful she is that we 'll be able to see how the old house has stood up to the war and cope with any disasters for her . ’ |
| 7 | If that standard was implemented in the city we would be able to designate almost the entire area of north Belfast , ’ he claimed . |
| 8 | Hence , one may be able to work out the broad effect of interdependencies once and for all when the strategy is set . |
| 9 | The initial inducement may not be taken by customers to imply the normal credit terms , or if it is , the firm 's credit managers may eventually be able to rein back the actual credit period taken to the planned one month . |
| 10 | I very much hope that the hospital to which the hon. Gentleman referred will be able to consolidate further the remarkable progress that it has made over the past couple of years — a 56 per cent . |
| 11 | But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne . |
| 12 | From these results , it would appear that the younger children were not able to pick up the linguistic cues to the deductive/empirical distinction contained in the experimenter 's questions . |
| 13 | Both his sisters kissed him — another first — and Kitty had to have her hand prised out of his before Charlie was able to pick up the brown paper parcel that contained all his worldly goods . |
| 14 | Armed with this information , the genealogist should be able to track down the relevant baptism entry in a parish or nonconformist register in the years before civil registration began . |
| 15 | Although you may not be able to track down the precise cause under such circumstances , it can be possible to devise a means of overcoming the problem in most cases of this type . |
| 16 | Although the underlying reasons are not fully understood , it does appear that certain female sex hormones are able to damp down the dominant urge . |
| 17 | The abilities not just to comprehend , to take things into one 's own understanding , and to make something of them , but also to be able to evaluate critically the available theories and traditions , and to be willing and have the mental toughness to take up a stance of one 's own : all these abilities point to an intellectual independence , requiring real academic freedom for their realization . |
| 18 | The consequences for the country , especially in the many cases where the recipient government is not able to sort out the resultant confusion , can at worst be disastrous . |
| 19 | Those leaders have tried to keep their empires isolated from the Darwinian laws of survival , despite the fact that none of the ‘ gods ’ as presented by them has ever been able to set aside the inexorable operation of those laws . |
| 20 | In the 1830s and early 1840s Palmerston was able to handle both the Belgian question and the Near Eastern crises of 1832 – 33 and 1839 – 41 with little interference from parliament , so that in 1839 an acute observer of British politics could say with much justification that " foreign affairs are never discussed except at the House of Lords " . |
| 21 | And the labour council — in reality a fragile and temporary alliance of Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) , Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) , christian socialist , Irish nationalist and independent members — elected on a platform little different from that of progressives on the LCC , was never able to challenge effectively the accepted boundaries of municipal activity . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but you might be able to fill in the odd gap . ’ |
| 23 | Ace filled in gaps for her as they talked about his long climb up to Formula One and his present position , and because of her background she was able to fill in the bare facts that he offered . |
| 24 | Benn is too much a product of his comfortable and intensely high-minded background to be able to understand why the common man ( let alone the common politician ) has more vulgar aspirations than plain living and high thinking . |
| 25 | No money spent by the tenants or Council on insecticides seemed able to keep down the swarming beetles in rotting woodwork . |
| 26 | However with Scott supporting him and the stable having hit form he should be able to knock out the odd winner or two in the coming weeks . |
| 27 | However , such concerns are beyond the scope of this article , and although we are not always able to separate out the different areas of linguistic interest in the characterisation of an individual in a dramatic text ( many individual character traits are receptive to a number of different linguistic approaches ) , the large number of insights into characterisation offered by discourse and pragmatic analysis indicates the large extent to which they may be used effectively by the student of dramatic texts . |
| 28 | Television was so quick to join the Yuppie Backlash that there is now a real danger of a Yuppie Backlash Drama Backlash , in which the viewer starts muttering about not being able to switch on the bloody set without seeing a broker being broken . |
| 29 | Kammerer must have been imposing such intense selection on such a large sample of eggs that he was able to filter out the odd egg that carried the remnant complex of genes still present in the species ' gene pool at very low frequencies . |
| 30 | Second , the external influence will in some cases actually be successful , and we may therefore be able to demonstrate how the new forms penetrate the solidary community . |