Example sentences of "able [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are also like to feel more confident and able to cope the second time around . |
| 2 | One more duty I was able to perform the next day . |
| 3 | Would anyone be able to enjoy the first public performance of a pageant , devised and directed by Mr Malik , with the working title of Islamic Wimbledon ? |
| 4 | The development , first reported in The Scotsman three years ago , opens up the possibility of being able to treat the first signs of breast cancer when the chances of success are highest . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , Wesker was struck by another ( albeit minor ) disaster : Teomi was not able to attend the first day of rehearsals because Wesker had forgotten , when writing his schedule , that it was also Yom Kippur . |
| 6 | We can say with certainty that we would be able to mount the first kind of display ; but at the moment we can not be so certain about the travelling display which , although the more attractive proposition , has much more significant resource implications . |
| 7 | You were looking at the beetle world in such a way as to be able to see the third dimension . |
| 8 | Granted his education and career it is not surprising that Sidonius , both in his panegyrics and also in his letter-collection , was able to see the last days of the imperial court within a traditional perspective . |
| 9 | be able to see the last little of it . |
| 10 | I 've been lucky to be able to launch the first concept of dread disease insurance , in South Africa you might have heard about us . |
| 11 | Thanks to new technology , ICI was able to launch the first solvent-free emulsions in the USA and UK in March 1992 . |
| 12 | We might thus be able to provide the first step in assisting a school to maximise any award which it receives . |
| 13 | Suddenly Reading was the Glastonbury you could go to and still be able to catch the last train home . |
| 14 | Unless you happen to be a keen follower of American football , you are more likely to be able to answer the first six questions than the last two . |
| 15 | After that she felt better able to tackle the next course of chicken and chips . |
| 16 | The postponement of the opera ( it eventually opened on 13 January ) meant that Nannerl , who reached Munich on 4 January 1775 , was able to hear the first performance . |
| 17 | One of the most beautiful experiences of my life was being able to play the Tenth Symphony for Shostakovich when we last visited Moscow . |
| 18 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | While Mr Major has signalled that he wants to leave the choice up to backbenchers , he is understood to favour the new Speaker coming from the Tory ranks , dashing Labour hopes that they might be able to nominate the next occupant of the Speaker 's chair . |
| 22 | Congress might just be able to form the next government alone ; if not , it would try to split bits off other parties . |
| 23 | So one has to actually learn erm an entirely new alphabet before even being able to read the first word on the first page that you see in the archives . |
| 24 | He was able to address the Eleventh Party Congress in August that year and emphasised the need for ‘ less empty talk and more hard work ’ ( quoted in Benewick and Wingrove 1988 : 14 ) . |
| 25 | " You see I could win one week , be at peak form and not be able to compete the next . |
| 26 | If it fails , the world 's biggest democracy will be even less able to survive the next assassin 's blow . |
| 27 | Like an Elizabethan tickling the back of his throat with a peacock feather to induce vomiting so he would be able to face the next enormous course , he brought up another cloud of ghosts . |
| 28 | so I wo n't be able to pay the first payment cos , you know ai n't got no money . |
| 29 | So I wo n't be able to pay the first payment cos you know I ai n't got no money . |
| 30 | I am sure that the Secretary of State will be able to explain the next point to me , because it is so simple . |