Example sentences of "able [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am proud to be representing the company and being able to wear the Wedgwood vest . ’ |
| 2 | Premier John Major is not optimistic that he will be able to rekindle the Gatt talks . |
| 3 | It is evident that a relatively small proportion of schools had either chosen or felt able to implement the ISS recommended curriculum and that most schools were not following a broad and balanced curriculum for all pupils . |
| 4 | Unix System Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper , a member of the COSE anschluss , predicted that Unix System Laboratories Inc 's partnership with OpenVision will ‘ be able to drive the COSE effort in systems management forward ’ by establishing common tools and technologies . |
| 5 | Unix System Labs president Roel Pieper , a member of the COSE anschluss , predicted USL 's partnership with OpenVision will ‘ be able to drive the COSE effort in systems management forward ’ by establishing common tools and technologies . |
| 6 | By four o'clock , I knew from the morning 's reckoning that I should have been able to see the Land Rover . |
| 7 | Among the rules and conditions for admission to this establishment a person had to have been resident in the parish for three years to have been receiving parish relief , and to be able to recite the Lord 's prayer and Apsotles ' Creed , also they shall not be an enemy of the Gospel or Established religion , nor a common swearer , adulterer , thief , picker , hedge breaker or drunkard . |
| 8 | Being able to find the Pentatonic scale fingering in any key in any position . |
| 9 | Countries with big debts — like Italy and Belgium — will not be able to meet the Maastricht criteria unless their economies start growing like Topsy . |
| 10 | It sounded risky but it might help take his mind off not being able to meet the Bookman . |
| 11 | I expect we would be able to sell the Benson & Hedges again to a new sponsor . ’ |
| 12 | While based at Solihull , near Birmingham — a location to which she still commutes at weekends — she was able to visit the RSC at Stratford quite regularly . |
| 13 | On this route you will be able to visit the Wasdale Head Inn , a once favourite haunt of rock climbers . |
| 14 | You will be able to view the DC assessment when the specified user has made his assessment . |
| 15 | As shown in Figure 7 , the expression vectors NF4 and NF21 ( which contain cDNAs for two distinct NFI proteins under the control of the RSV promoter : — a kind gift of Dr A.Nicosia ) were both able to activate the HPV 16 construct . |
| 16 | This move was executed overnight , with little time to spare , for Kluck , believing both French and British forces already defeated , was still marching westward at maximum speed and would shortly have been able to envelop the BEF 's left flank . |
| 17 | But it 's still able to undercut the CRX by a useful margin . |
| 18 | For this reason it seems best to concentrate upon the Mustakimzade tradition in order to be able to set the Katib Celebi tradition against the background of what is felt to be a more probable account of the origins of the Muftilik . |
| 19 | On arrival , however , Sir John French heard that Lanrezac 's Fifth Army had been attacked the previous day and was no longer able to cross the River Sambre . |
| 20 | You would therefore need to be able to buy the Metro for about £5,200 cash or less to be better off financing the deal yourself . |
| 21 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 22 | Erm but will you make , be able to make much profit on the on your old Chiswick house to be able to buy the Weybridge one , will that be an economic move ? |
| 23 | By drawing engine cooling air in through the left-front wheelarch , for example , Renault engineers have not only been able to enhance the Clio 's aerodynamics , but also protect the engine from damage caused by ingress of foreign bodies . |
| 24 | It will be recalled that , according to this theory , a stimulus is held to be fully effective only when it is able to generate the Al ( primary activation ) state in the node that constitutes its central representation . |
| 25 | He was able to manage the May term at Cuddesdon , though he needed still to go three times a week to London to see Browne for treatment . |
| 26 | Highlander was able to put the YCCC in touch with other community groups in the mountains which had a wide variety of similar experiences of toxic waste dumping in their communities . |
| 27 | He did not find the relevant information , but was able to use the Prestel mailbox facility to send a message to COIC . |
| 28 | Thus when NHS wide networking is introduced it will be able to use the Read codes for communicating clinical information throughout the NHS . |
| 29 | Under the terms of the initial agreement , Thomson-CSF will be able to use the PowerPC architecture to develop digital processing functions for its equipment and will be licensed to manufacture some microprocessors from the PowerPC family and customise them for defence and aerospace applications . |
| 30 | As 30 per cent of YTS graduates fail to find employment at the end of their course it is crucial to understand which groups are able to use the YTS to gain a foothold in the labour market , and those which are unsuccessful . |