Example sentences of "able [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 2 | It 's a case of ‘ determined ’ ( by causes outside our control ) versus ‘ self-determination ’ Are you able through your own will to fulfil yourself , to overcome your conditioning ? |
| 3 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 4 | The argument that there is a thing called capitalist society which renders its population entirely pathological and dehumanized , with the exception of certain theorists who , although inevitably living their private lives in accordance with the tenets of this delusion , are able in their abstracted social theory to rise above , criticize and provide the only alternative model for society , is somewhat suspicious . |
| 5 | When Merry blows it in the Shire the revolution against sloth and shabbiness and Saruman- ‘ Sharkey ’ is on : no doubt Tolkien would have liked to be able in his own person to do the same . |
| 6 | A British official observed that , ‘ The truth is that Mr Yoshida , although able in his own way , does not give the impression of being particularly well-qualified to cope with the intricate political and economic situation in which Japan now finds herself . ’ |
| 7 | On the basis of our initial fieldwork , we were able in our fifth report to group these under five main headings : |
| 8 | One , one of the most common question of the last weeks are we yes last weeks Sunday visiting that I was involved with in my ward was from people who were perturbed , not about means testing because that is not the word that it was about , but about something that is on the same kind of sphere and that was about whether erm East Gates which decided to be their own managers would also be able to their own tenants and keep the ones that were less suitable away from the ones that knew that they were suitable . |