Example sentences of "able [to-vb] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her savings mounted and she was confident that come the summer she would be able to afford a journey to England . |
| 2 | I also heard that a party of girls from Bishop 's Home orphanage school in Rangoon had got stranded at Katha and I was able to send a telegram to Jack Cardew of the Burma Railways asking him to extricate them and get them on a train to Myitkyina . |
| 3 | Mavra , the first Yugoslavian to row the race , had scarcely been able to contribute a stroke to Oxford 's last few . |
| 4 | He/she should be able to demonstrate a commitment to performance of high quality studies to Good Laboratory Practice in a busy commercial environment . |
| 5 | From the definition of IT above , it should be clear that IT ought to be able to offer a lot to mathematics learning in schools and colleges — but how much , in fact , has IT affected it ? |
| 6 | So far he had been able to maintain a claim to even-handedness on the grounds that he treated both sides , Moslems and Copt , with equal severity . |
| 7 | Powerful actors , especially , are able to make a difference to things ; for example King Louis XV 's lasciviousness made him indulgent toward Madame de Pompa-dour , who was therefore able to protect the position of the incompetent General Soubise in spite of the fact that his army was unreliable in defending France 's military interests . |