Example sentences of "able [to-vb] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing had she made all those journeys with her employers — she now showed herself to have a familiarity with timetables quite out of the ordinary and was able to spot at once where a connection could be made . |
| 2 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 3 | You will find in this section many programs , from Home and Hobbies to professional DTP packages , that you are able to try at only 2.50 per disc . |
| 4 | Plus points include the availability of a wide range of standard sizes — you should be able to find at least one to fit your site — and the fact that the manufacturers have gone to great lengths in recent years to improve the poor appearance that older prefabricated sectional buildings traditionally suffered from . |
| 5 | I would like to be able to find at least an oddment of eroticism . |
| 6 | With the adolescent , however , one will normally be able to communicate at least on a broadly similar level of sexual understanding with one 's own . |
| 7 | er , that in future , said conference would be able to pass at least one motion to the T U C Congress elect delegates to the same . |
| 8 | Thus , ME language states , being so variable , should in principle be suited to the same kind of analysis that we use in present-day social dialectology , and by using variationist methods we should be able to explore at least some of the constraints on variation that might have existed in ME . |
| 9 | It follows that affirmative assessors must be able to discriminate at least between these two types of grief reaction . |
| 10 | We shall never be able to look at either our own or other people 's religions in quite the same way again . |
| 11 | Midani would be able to afford at least that , and a general offer would be cheaper for him to fund because of his existing stake . |
| 12 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 13 | ( You ought to be able to deduce at least five . |
| 14 | You may prefer to pay more for a course geared specifically to the needs of health visitors rather than something more general , and may be able to recoup at least part of the costs of attending a course from your local continuing education budget . |
| 15 | We will not be able to do at once everything that we would like to do . |
| 16 | By draining meres and felling trees the inhabitants of the north Shropshire parish of Myddle were able to clear at least 1,000 acres of land between the late fifteenth and the early seventeenth century . |
| 17 | Such engines would be able to run at very high temperatures , with high efficiencies — but the difference between the expansion rates of metal and ceramic components is a big obstacle . |
| 18 | He suggested that maybe the electrons were not able to orbit at just any distance from the central nucleus but only at certain specified distances . |
| 19 | If you take advantage of the sales you 'll be able to save at least 20p in the £ on goods which are already at rock-bottom prices . |
| 20 | It is possible that in the course of time scientific advance will be able to offer at least an hypothesis which will throw some light on the mystery of the origin of the universe and give substance to the belief that life , in some form or other , does have an ineradicable and eternal place in the universe . |
| 21 | By DNaseI footprinting , we could demonstrate that the 303 bp BglI-NaeI segment ( see Fig. 1 ) , including the RARE and the 80 bp fragment , is able to bind at least two different factors , but only one , the so called footprint I , is localized in the 80 bp region , known to be necessary for full transcriptional activity . |
| 22 | Water companies are obliged to give more comprehensive data to local councils , so consumers should be able to get at least the same amount of information . |
| 23 | You should be able to spend at least two or three hours learning with Carrie . ’ |
| 24 | If you really enjoy cooking you will probably want to be able to take at least some meals in the kitchen and to have as much space as possible for herbs , spices , pots and pans , cook books and all the other impedimenta collected by the keen cook , quite apart from generous food storage and good kitchen aids . |
| 25 | If Barth was now able to say at least some of the things that Brunner also wished to say , he was doing so within his own perspective — and demonstrating at the same , time that that perspective was not as narrow and restricted as Brunner had imagined it must be . |
| 26 | This means that even in old age , we are able to recover at least partially from what might look like an incurable condition . |
| 27 | The business of the yard door was puzzling ; it was bolted at II.I5 and mysteriously unbolted later so that an unidentified woman was able to enter at about 11.30 , but bolted again when the police arrived some time after six in the morning . |
| 28 | Second , the firm with the smaller financial backing will be the first to crack , even though it may be able to produce at slightly lower cost than its richer rival . |
| 29 | Are normally able to speak at least one of the languages of the competing teams . |
| 30 | Second , within five years , we want four out of five 16 to 18 year olds to be able to achieve at least five GCSEs at grades A , B or C , or their equivalent . |