Example sentences of "able to do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me hard to do the latter without being able to do the former . |
| 2 | That evening Clive could only grin and bear it , but when I told him I would n't be able to do the second summer course he was distinctly cool . |
| 3 | Voluntary organisations , as Diana and her colleagues said , should have the confidence to suggest that although under the right conditions and with the right resources , er , they may be able to do the impossible , miracles are not on offer . |
| 4 | You might be able to do the odd one but I do n't think that you 've got the time , I mean bear in mind you 've gone from four to three to two there 's two of you now supervising all of us if you tell me you 've got spare time then great , and you want to do one or two equally great , however unless you tell me to the contrary |
| 5 | You will also be able to do the grand progress review ( page 227 ) . |
| 6 | Now you could have two buses doing that and forming fifteen minute service because one bus went out in thirty minutes another one fifteen minutes behind it , that came back so that the first bus was able to do the third one . |
| 7 | Most Norwegian local hospitals are able to do the initial clinical CT staging of patients and the follow-up examinations . |
| 8 | After three lessons we were all able to do the basic skiing . |
| 9 | It was not until 1965 that I was able to do the full course and fly the Boeing 707 . |
| 10 | And this is why takes to get all this down and get get a location better than the Carlton for the , I mean , alright , we are n't gon na be able to do the three or four hundred , but then we |
| 11 | As the first one had managed to flutter down , it seemed that the rest should be able to do the same , but I judged it safer to load them into a cardboard box and lower them gently . |
| 12 | If one part of the bay could support a certain amount of aquatic life , then why should n't other parts be able to do the same ? |
| 13 | The French believed that as smugglers in rowing boats constantly managed to get ashore on the English coast , an invasion fleet , given a favourable southerly wind and a calm , dark night , should be able to do the same , and hoped to use some of these clandestine sailors as pilots . |
| 14 | If you feel able to do the same directly from the original plan , then by all means do so : but we 're advising a reversible template so that each kite half is the same — and there 's no guarantee that the first drawing will achieve that ! |
| 15 | After that , ideally , everyone should be able to do the same . |
| 16 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc is circulating a 135-page spiral-bound octavo-sized ‘ SCO Hardware Compatibility Handbook , ’ listing the 200 systems and 800 peripherals it supports and tweaking SunSoft Inc for being able to do the same for Solaris 2.0 on a single sheet of paper . |
| 17 | We might be able to do the same job elsewhere under better working conditions . |
| 18 | We can not all , as it already been emphasised by the last speaker we may not all be able to do the same things we have not all got the same gifts or the same responsibilities er within the church but you all have the same responsibilities in this light of God . |