Example sentences of "able [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other extreme of the street , Mr Patel was able to confirm that a man had been working the previous day , and that morning , on the Ford Capri that was still there , still with the bonnet raised , still with a plastic bag on the battery . |
| 2 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 3 | Customers must be able to know that a garment with the label ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was made of 100 per cent natural fibres . |
| 4 | ‘ Meaning ’ theists and ‘ meaning ’ atheists are able to accept that a common definition of ‘ God ’ can be found and the evidence for and against God 's existence duly weighed and argued over . |
| 5 | I presented 29 awards and was able to announce that a further 500 companies are committed to meeting this standard . |
| 6 | What was n't in doubt , however , was the process itself , and even for the 1961–71 period , Champion ( 1976 ) was able to conclude that a marked acceleration had taken place in the rate of outward movement , from the conurbations and large towns , to surrounding areas , and that remote rural areas like the southwest and Wales had either reversed a century-long decline in population , or had reduced it significantly . |
| 7 | Glashow was then able to predict that a neutral weak interaction exists due to the exchange of the Z o , for example in electron-proton scattering ( Figure 4 ) , and that this process would violate parity in a definite way depending on the amount of mixing . |
| 8 | Then , accurate predictions can be made from the blood ( DNA ) : for example , one will be able to predict that a healthy child will die in his or her forties from Huntington 's chorea or from familial Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 9 | Individuals who use the lexical route for word recognition will not suffer this interference , but they will not necessarily be able to determine that a spelling is incorrect provided that the word sounds acceptable . |
| 10 | But in practice a certain period of time may elapse before the authorities are able to recognize that a problem exists . |
| 11 | The court could , for instance , intervene prospectively where a member was able to demonstrate that a proposed business policy would produce an a manifestly inadequate return . |
| 12 | Such a form or stamp is unlikely to be immediately effective , since the seller will be able to argue that a delivery agent will not normally have authority to accept contract terms . |
| 13 | Working with a series of transparent resin models in polarized light , Marsh was able to show that a step was just as bad a stress concentrator as the equivalent crack , in fact it might be regarded as half a crack . |
| 14 | They were able to show that a high proportion of the buildings that still front the main street leading from the church to the market place were retail shops , public houses and other commercial properties whose owners lived on the premises , usually above or behind the shop . |