Example sentences of "able [to-vb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only by painstaking research are we able to paint an accurate picture of what is really happening . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Len thinks you might be able to sink an awful lot from the Sunderland Shipowners ' Cup , which is one of the Wearside League 's . |
| 4 | He would n't even know who Charles and Di were , for Heaven 's sake , to say nothing of being able to conduct an intelligible conversation on the state of the Monarchy . |
| 5 | TO be able to conduct an uninterrupted interview with Glasgow 's largest TOM Controller , you have to be down in George Square bright and early . |
| 6 | You should be able to carry an unreefed main up to 30 knots of true wind , but it will have to be trimmed quite flat . |
| 7 | If a killer is faced with a quiet prey rather than one that is resisting violently , it will simply be able to enjoy an easier meal . |
| 8 | Plagued by years of opencast development in their areas some local communities have been able to mount an effective campaign against individual applications . |
| 9 | Previous work has shown that alcoholics were able to mount an adequate antibody response to pneumococcal polysaccharide antigen . |
| 10 | Cold weather payments — During periods of very cold weather , you may be able to claim an additional £5 for every very cold week . |
| 11 | During periods of very cold weather , you may in some cases be able to claim an additional £5 for each very cold week . |
| 12 | The difference between these two numbers in chess terms is much smaller than one would think ; not much more than being able to see an additional one or two moves ahead , plus giving special attention to checks and sequences involving piece exchanges and captures . |
| 13 | Not least because he is the first senior politician for some time to write a book that is stylish , witty , beautifully observed and therefore vastly superior to the plodding tone employed by most ex-Cabinet ministers who confuse being there with being able to write an interesting account of what happened . |
| 14 | Over the five years of operation of the National Certificate employers and providers have indicated that , whilst the flexibility of the modular system is of great benefit , it would also be useful to be able to provide an additional separate certificate for a student who successfully completes a group of modules designed to meet the needs of a particular occupational area . |
| 15 | Notionally , each of the bureau should be able to provide an identical service but , as we know from our own experiences and those of our clients , this turns out not to be the case . |
| 16 | Such issues as whether a system is able to provide an adequate model of how humans process the language are of limited interest to this school of research . |
| 17 | Not being able to find an immediate answer to these questions , Cassie crept towards the mirror and stared in . |
| 18 | But when war seemed most imminent they faltered , hoping against hope that Chamberlain would be able to find an acceptable way out . |
| 19 | After the concert , Branson explained how difficult it was to sell Oldfield 's music in America ; indeed , the only way Virgin had been able to find an American distributor for his records at all was on the back of a deal made for a new group on the label , XTC — precisely the kind of music Oldfield abhorred . |
| 20 | ACP representatives considered this allocation incommensurate with both the additional needs of the ACP recipient countries and the overall gross domestic product of the EC donor countries , but were only able to secure an overall increase of 1,200 million ECU in subsequent negotiations . |
| 21 | With the help of another friend , an accountant , he was able to net an additional $12 — $15,000 a year from this work . |
| 22 | You might be able to obtain an occasional permission , but if you are going to do this frequently you will require an occasional licence ( if you do , the licensee would presumably provide the sherry ) . |
| 23 | The user will be able to obtain an Abbreviated Report which will consist of the above information but excluding the module information . |
| 24 | The user will be able to obtain an Abbreviated Report which will consist of only the structured listing . |
| 25 | Or possibly Center Parcs had not quite got the hand of hiring out the proper equipment — certainly you need the jack and the balls but you should also be able to hire an old man in a beret to watch , otherwise the game can not possibly feel authentic . |
| 26 | In Eastern Europe the opposition movements which began to grow rapidly in the 1980s were finally successful in bringing about the collapse of the communist regimes , but they have not yet been able to create an acceptable and stable new order ; nationalist movements have proliferated , and a new labour movement has emerged which contests the policy of restoring free-market capitalism that has so far produced only economic disaster . |
| 27 | The instruments that they carry are thus able to view an entire hemisphere and to return images every 30 minutes . |
| 28 | We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment . |
| 29 | And at the more maths you know , I think , the easier it is perhaps to get a job , and perhaps to be able to choose an interesting field . |
| 30 | Therefore , if a building society prefers lending to white-collar workers wishing to buy modern houses , the chances of an agricultural worker being able to purchase an old terraced house or stone cottage could be slim . |