Example sentences of "[adv] able [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was apparently able to win at will , despite a strong challenge from Raul Gardini 's Passage of Venice . |
| 2 | He was assessed as only able to work at 50 per cent of the rate for the job and only half his wages were paid under the scheme . |
| 3 | Are normally able to speak at least one of the languages of the competing teams . |
| 4 | They got their chance to delve into the details at a news conference … but Chris Dean also got the chance to say how pleased he and Jayne are to be in the region and finally able to stay at home . |
| 5 | Hardly able to move at all for the blissful heaviness of her limbs , Julia tried to make her mind work enough to answer him . |
| 6 | As I said earlier , we are also able to look at the successes being achieved by other trust status hospitals elsewhere . |
| 7 | If Barth was now able to say at least some of the things that Brunner also wished to say , he was doing so within his own perspective — and demonstrating at the same , time that that perspective was not as narrow and restricted as Brunner had imagined it must be . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , reviews within the periphery did begin to deal with the relationship between form and content in far more radical ways than left or core reviews were prepared to do and were even able to hint at possible political meanings that might be derived from this process . |
| 9 | Nathan cheered up a touch when he had eaten his way through half the menu , and was even able to smile at the prospect of spending the night in our corridor-like room . |
| 10 | She ate the food , sipped her brandy and was even able to smile at the sight of Iris peering between the slices of bread to ensure that the contents were acceptable to a vegetarian . |
| 11 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 12 | She remembered how she had ridiculously thought meeting him had left her tingling , and was then able to scoff at such a fanciful notion . |
| 13 | And erm , my wife who 's a teacher had erm a very devastating experience just after I retired so it was erm , it was as well that I retired when I did because I was then able to stay at home and er |