Example sentences of "able [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 we finally were able to arrange the long-awaited visit . |
| 2 | You are also like to feel more confident and able to cope the second time around . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One more duty I was able to perform the next day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the US on the other hand , firms have not been able to realize the potential advantage of overlapping . |
| 12 | We reported our finds to the local office where we were able to borrow the official car to transport the goodies to Valiant . |
| 13 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 14 | A policeman may be able to restore the public calm without having to resort to an arrest . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now he will be able to carpet the bare boards of his house , something he predicted in last week 's Spectator would be impossible under Labour , so mortgaged to the hilt is he . |
| 17 | Detectives have still not been able to interview the 25-year-old former Vogue girl who is described as stable in a psychiatric unit at Liverpool 's Broadgreen Hospital . |
| 18 | As the mobile libraries have limited space , confirm with Library HQ 's that they are willing and able to carry the relevant documents/information before distribution . |
| 19 | ‘ I will not be able to carry the physical burden of leading the Party at the next General Election . |
| 20 | It was great to be able to report the following month , that the treehouse survived the terrible storms early that year . |
| 21 | This will enable those eager and able to sit the relevant examination and thus qualify . |
| 22 | However , he had to have a close feeling of empathy with the horse in the first place to be able to transmit the mental idea . |
| 23 | As the train slows down considerably on the bend , look out beyond the Castoff Carpet Centre ( formerly Watley Baptist Chapel ) over the spire of Saint Greavsies and you may be able to spot the rusty corrugated sheeting , glistening muddily in the sunlight , that makes up the ground 's perimeter fencing . |
| 24 | Management is increasingly concerned , particularly during economic recession , to be able to monitor the day-to-day performance of the organisation , such as cash-flow , and therefore they desire access to a range of operational figures . |
| 25 | For example , one objective may be that ‘ by the end of the allocation the student will be able to plan the nursing care of a patient following cholecystectomy , based on his or her problems and needs ’ . |
| 26 | Whereas , before nationalisation , the planning of bulk supply points from the National Grid had been constrained by complex legal and financial negotiations between the CEB and the undertakings , engineers were now able to plan the cheapest effective layout , resulting in more supply points and increased usage of the high-voltage 132kV system for energy transfer and thus reduced transmission losses . |
| 27 | We may not be able to plan the unplannable but we have to accommodate it in our plans . |
| 28 | Some of the awkwardness in Anglo-American relations had been dispelled by a combination of circumstances ; James Byrnes had been replaced as US Secretary of State by the anglophile General George Marshall ; Britain , for her part , had supported the launch of the Marshall Plan in Western Europe ; and the Americans were beginning to appreciate that they were unlikely to be able to tame the malign hostility of the Soviet Union as Roosevelt had once hoped . |
| 29 | Dr Kallman has since been on another field trip to this area and is able to confirm the widespread range of this species throughout most of the small tributaries of the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and eastwards from Sarabia . |
| 30 | They won short corners without being able to penetrate the Old Loughtonians defence and often the final pass went astray , so when the second goal came , the large crowd knew it was all over . |