Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range . |
| 2 | the restaurant must be able to serve both water and soft drinks as well as alcohol ; and |
| 3 | Because they 'll never be able to afford even equity share accommodation and it 'll be difficult to afford anything more than that . |
| 4 | Since fusion , courts have been able to administer both law and equity but the distinction between , on the one hand , the costs to be allowed to a successful mortgagee/litigant and , on the other hand , the costs that should be allowed to a mortgagee on the taking of an account in a redemption or foreclosure action remains a real one . |
| 5 | In close communities like mines , the workers have been able to express both grief and anger openly . |
| 6 | Mitsubishi still clings to the option of being able to use only rear-wheel-drive on the road , claiming it 's quieter and less expensive on fuel and tyres . |
| 7 | Users of private WANs have been able to send both voice and data over the same lines for years . |
| 8 | At first the explosions were thought to have been caused by a gas leak , but gradually the police were able to piece together evidence linking the disaster to the Weathermen , one of whom had attached a wire to the wrong terminal . |
| 9 | The distinction between liquidity and solvency is important , for the lender must be confident that the borrower will invest wisely and eventually become able to repay both interest and capital . |
| 10 | More recently , some writers have tried to combine elements from various of these approaches , so as to be able to explain both class and gender inequality . |
| 11 | This also applies to children , although the very young may only be able to take either chloroquine or prognanil . |
| 12 | Such an approach would be able to take both style shifting and code switching into account , whether in monolinguals or bilinguals ; and could relate both of these , as well as other discourse related phenomena , to wider " patterns of linguistic behaviour " in the community . |
| 13 | He himself was able to bequeath only plate and household goods , and to request in his will to be buried under a ‘ plain black stone ’ with a simple inscription recording his Christian belief . |
| 14 | If a business makes both exempt and taxable supplies , it is said to be partially exempt and will be able to recover only part of the input VAT . |