Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
2 | Those who ignored the role of adaptation were able to flourish at the same time as those for whom adaptation was the primary consideration , because the range of problems that could attract research funding allowed both approaches to find suitable niches for themselves . |
3 | Duchamp-Villon and La Fresnaye were also members of the hanging committee , so that the Cubist painters were able to exhibit for the second time that year as a group . |
4 | If you have a weekend free , you can do what many west Berliners are now able to do for the first time since 1952 — simple drive into the country and enjoy the landscape of Brandenburg . |
5 | I do n't support this blanket band of reducing surplus places for the sake of reducing surplus places , like the district auditor , and if quote right , it 's an accountant looking at erm , looking at figures and nothing else , and I think that is the problem with the issue , erm , we 've seen in other schools , in larger schools , where they 've developed erm , classrooms into a decent library , or resource area , but in the , in the , in the overall spectrum they 're still counted as classroom spaces , and if that classroom was put back er in , into a class , the school would suffer environmentally , because that school would have no library facilities , no resource facilities which it 's able to appreciate at the present time . |
6 | ‘ I 'm interested in the small things that gradually lead to the repression of women — I want to make people see these , but be able to laugh at the same time . |
7 | While the existence of a counterclaim does not support a mortgagor 's contention that he would be able to pay within a reasonable time : Citibank Trust Ltd v Ayivor ( 1987 ) 3 All ER 241 , if the counterclaim is directed to the validity of the mortgage deed , that is a different matter , see Barclays Bank v Waterson ( 1988 ) 1989 CLY 2505 . |