Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 You are also like to feel more confident and able to cope the second time around .
2 One more duty I was able to perform the next day .
3 Would anyone be able to enjoy the first public performance of a pageant , devised and directed by Mr Malik , with the working title of Islamic Wimbledon ?
4 The development , first reported in The Scotsman three years ago , opens up the possibility of being able to treat the first signs of breast cancer when the chances of success are highest .
5 Unfortunately , Wesker was struck by another ( albeit minor ) disaster : Teomi was not able to attend the first day of rehearsals because Wesker had forgotten , when writing his schedule , that it was also Yom Kippur .
6 We can say with certainty that we would be able to mount the first kind of display ; but at the moment we can not be so certain about the travelling display which , although the more attractive proposition , has much more significant resource implications .
7 You were looking at the beetle world in such a way as to be able to see the third dimension .
8 Granted his education and career it is not surprising that Sidonius , both in his panegyrics and also in his letter-collection , was able to see the last days of the imperial court within a traditional perspective .
9 be able to see the last little of it .
10 I 've been lucky to be able to launch the first concept of dread disease insurance , in South Africa you might have heard about us .
11 Thanks to new technology , ICI was able to launch the first solvent-free emulsions in the USA and UK in March 1992 .
12 We might thus be able to provide the first step in assisting a school to maximise any award which it receives .
13 Unfortunately , they were soon moved to different duties , but before doing so they were able to train a third person , a Sergeant , who has since carried on the work .
14 It has been able to obtain a third of the income that it needs from sponsorship , while a further third has been obtained from admission charges .
15 Suddenly Reading was the Glastonbury you could go to and still be able to catch the last train home .
16 Unless you happen to be a keen follower of American football , you are more likely to be able to answer the first six questions than the last two .
17 After that she felt better able to tackle the next course of chicken and chips .
18 ‘ But we kept our shape well and it was unfortunate that we were n't able to nick a second goal .
19 For readers still able to afford a second home in Europe the most sensible advice is : do n't rush ; carefully study the conditions in the area chosen ; and obtain proper advice .
20 The postponement of the opera ( it eventually opened on 13 January ) meant that Nannerl , who reached Munich on 4 January 1775 , was able to hear the first performance .
21 By 1950 the party was able to win a second general election with an increased vote .
22 One of the most beautiful experiences of my life was being able to play the Tenth Symphony for Shostakovich when we last visited Moscow .
23 She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ?
24 That evening Clive could only grin and bear it , but when I told him I would n't be able to do the second summer course he was distinctly cool .
25 Now you could have two buses doing that and forming fifteen minute service because one bus went out in thirty minutes another one fifteen minutes behind it , that came back so that the first bus was able to do the third one .
26 While Mr Major has signalled that he wants to leave the choice up to backbenchers , he is understood to favour the new Speaker coming from the Tory ranks , dashing Labour hopes that they might be able to nominate the next occupant of the Speaker 's chair .
27 Congress might just be able to form the next government alone ; if not , it would try to split bits off other parties .
28 If time and numbers permit we may be able to start a second item .
29 So one has to actually learn erm an entirely new alphabet before even being able to read the first word on the first page that you see in the archives .
30 He was able to address the Eleventh Party Congress in August that year and emphasised the need for ‘ less empty talk and more hard work ’ ( quoted in Benewick and Wingrove 1988 : 14 ) .
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