Example sentences of "able [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must be able to swim 500 yards and should not be in full time education at the time of the expedition . |
| 2 | Consequently the guideline in the BCU Coaching Scheme lay down that all canoeists should be able to swim 50 metres in light clothing and that capsize drill should be included as an early lesson ( p 357 , Canoeing Handbook ) . |
| 3 | Learning means lots of falling in , so you must be able to swim 25 yards . |
| 4 | Living near a public course he was able to hit 200 balls a time . |
| 5 | The Bölkow 207 is a very desirable , capable aeroplane : able to carry four people and their luggage in excellent comfort for a reasonable distance at a respectable speed ; capable of getting into and out of quite small airfields or airstrips ; capable of fingertip handling which is both very stable or very sprightly ; capable of convincing this air-tester that there is another 180 hp Lycoming-engined wooden aeroplane which might just , in certain areas , be equal to or ( whisper it quietly ! ) even better than another , similar-powered , big wooden aeroplane with bent wings . |
| 6 | If you are , feel able to go one step further , and make specific guidance as to sectors in the way we 've described , by reference to physical features , that would be fine . |
| 7 | Some antelopes have been recorded fleeing at 42 miles an hour for a mile , or 35 miles an hour for 4 miles , and deer have been able to sustain 30 miles an hour for an astonishing 20 miles . |
| 8 | In her first term at St Cecilia 's there 'd been a girl who 'd had the gift of levitation , a disturbed girl called Julie who had been able to float eight feet above the ground , whom Miss Scuse had eventually had to have removed . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , when — and if — we ever raise that hull , we should be able to kill two birds with one stone : to determine the causes of both the explosions and this man 's death . ’ |
| 10 | All rooms accommodate up to 3 adults with a small number of rooms able to accommodate two adults and two children . |
| 11 | There 's simply no excuse here , for Philips was perfectly able to accommodate three Haydn Symphonies onto a previous release featuring Sir Colin Davis and the royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ! |
| 12 | It would be able to accommodate 150,000 drums of radiocative material accumulated in Taiwan since 1979 , as well as low-level waste produced by both governments for the next three years . |
| 13 | The ‘ starlab2 will boost limited resources for studying astronomy and will be able to accommodate 30 pupils at a time . |
| 14 | For the past week , with your donations , CARE have been able to mount six airlifts a day to Baidoa and Bardera — two of the towns featured in the Mirror 's shock report . |
| 15 | I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face . |
| 16 | Xenly now looks the same , everybody has no hair on top and big full beards , everybody is able to pinch two inches , no more and no less and every person is in hospital with dire cases of food poisoning . |
| 17 | ‘ For every £21 raised during the bike ride we will be able to provide 10 people in the Gambia with clean water or educate five children in Bolivia . ’ |
| 18 | Each teacher should be able to train 40 pupils in a year . |
| 19 | The success of the new Continental R , and before that the Bentley Turbo , shows that if it can make the sort of car that new customers approve of , it should still be able to find 3,000 buyers a year around the world . |
| 20 | The election of 1979 seemed to mark something of a return to " normal " in that third parties had their vote cut back to less than 20 per cent and they were only able to secure twenty-seven seats . |
| 21 | With a little practice you should be able to brew 40 pints of good cheap beer in less than three hours ' work . |
| 22 | The biggest anuran of all , the goliath frog from West Africa , is able to jump three metres or so . |
| 23 | In fact , an evaluator was able to observe one meeting of the library committee . |
| 24 | At first there was some response and I was able to meet two officials , Jack Dromey and Miss Catherine Scorer , in Belfast on 28th April 1974 during a visit to Northern Ireland which they were making together with Martin Loney , the general secretary . |
| 25 | The ability to be able to pull nine G which is er generally accepted to be the physiological limit for pilots , which is more than any of our aircraft can . |
| 26 | We have been able to feed 300,000 people in some of the worst hit areas of Somalia . |
| 27 | ( Its walls are so thick that the present Lord and Lady Lambton were able to install two bathrooms in their width . ) |
| 28 | Note whilst you are able to deinstall more than one process model at a time , you are only able to install one process model at a time . |
| 29 | In March , those prepared to buy a second dish will be able to receive five channels of British Satellite Broadcasting . |
| 30 | Top of the class came Andrew MacDonald and Stuart Richardson , who were able to remember 20 objects in under three minutes using word association . |