Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors , respected journalists who covered the Tampa trial , have been able to weave a convincing and tight narrative out of hundreds of interviews , tape transcripts and other material . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sure , Lewis , that Mrs Downes will be able to arrange a private consultation with Mrs Lewis at some convenient point . |
| 3 | We should be able to arrange a temporary overdraft with a special low rate of interest on amounts up to £1,000 . |
| 4 | Local volunteer schemes may be able to arrange a regular visitor or you could contact an employment agency or advertise for a kindly ‘ sitter ’ . |
| 5 | If an accident does occur , you may be able to arrange a free initial interview under the ‘ ALAS ’ scheme [ Accident Legal Advice Service ] operated by many solicitors . |
| 6 | In 1985 we finally were able to arrange the long-awaited visit . |
| 7 | You are also like to feel more confident and able to cope the second time around . |
| 8 | That came through their being cooped up at Jerusalem in the persecution which followed on the death of Stephen : as a result of the ordinary followers of Jesus being scattered by that persecution , they were able to preach the good news along the Phoenician seaboard until they came to Antioch , later to become the home of the Gentile mission . |
| 9 | And if they offer the unit or investment trust options , they must also offer shares or you will not be able to invest the maximum amount . |
| 10 | The House of Lords accepted evidence that the NSPCC relied on anonymous informants for much of its work in child protection and held that the public interest in informants coming forward with information outweighed the parents ' interest in being able to sue a malicious busybody . |
| 11 | You may be able to sue a negligent surveyor or go to arbitration , but you are likely to be the loser , though your interests are now ( since April 1989 ) better protected in law . |
| 12 | To be able to perform a full schedule of aerobatics in a range of winds from 8 to 40 km/h ( 5–25mph ) , some bridle adjustment is essential for ‘ tuning ’ . |
| 13 | Now and then , he was able to perform a special service for one of his clients and there was a little secrecy involved . |
| 14 | Moreover , to be able to perform a reliable statistical analysis the sample size must be considerably larger . |
| 15 | This has led some people to commit what may conveniently be called ‘ Sahlins ’ fallacy' ( Sahlins 1976 ) , and to suppose that the operation of kin selection requires that animals , or people , are able to perform the necessary calculations . |
| 16 | The logic of Ormrod J. 's decision must cause us to say that the male in these examples is no longer able to perform the essential role of a male — that is , assert his biological maleness — and is not , therefore , a male for the purposes of marriage , and that therefore there is no marriage . |
| 17 | Largely due to her courage and drive she enabled them to grow in stature so that the choirs were able to perform the major choral works drawing an audience of over 1,000 at a performance of the Dream of Gerontius and be broadcast with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on three occasions . |
| 18 | Working within a paradigm , the fundamentals of which they take for granted , they are able to perform the exacting experimental and theoretical work necessary to improve the match between the paradigm and nature to an ever-greater degree . |
| 19 | One more duty I was able to perform the next day . |
| 20 | And I like the way the Lib-Dems are : catholic in their outlook , tolerant and wide-ranging , able to embrace the raffish radical and the Wesleyan non-conformist alike . |
| 21 | In the US on the other hand , firms have not been able to realize the potential advantage of overlapping . |
| 22 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |
| 23 | We reported our finds to the local office where we were able to borrow the official car to transport the goodies to Valiant . |
| 24 | It is much easier to talk about something or explain if you have it in front of you and even though the listener can not actually see it you will be able to paint a mental picture for him . |
| 25 | Only by painstaking research are we able to paint an accurate picture of what is really happening . |
| 26 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
| 27 | By this stage the airlines had been able to restore a basic service by recruiting new pilots , persuading pilots out of retirement and persuading some to return to work on individual contracts . |
| 28 | In this study the subjects simply watched the slides while their heart rate was recorded and they listened to a sentence describing the event in each slide ( e.g. ‘ Father was able to find the broken connection ’ versus ‘ Father was able to restore the severed limbs ’ ) . |
| 29 | A policeman may be able to restore the public calm without having to resort to an arrest . |
| 30 | She gripped the wheel , looking alternately into the rear-view mirror and ahead , searching for a turn-off where she might be able to lose the chasing Audi . |