Example sentences of "able [to-vb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Martyn , churchwarden of Long Melford in Suffolk , for example , kept the reredos , organ , clocks , and bells of Holy Trinity Church in his own home , in the hope that his heirs would be able to restore them to the church sometime in the future . |
| 2 | Most importantly , when you meet work colleagues and friends , your springy step must be able to bluff them into believing that you could have managed two laps of the course . |
| 3 | Rita 's sorrow today at having to leave her children thousands of miles away is well concealed by her satisfaction at being able to support them from afar . |
| 4 | Where he did have strong personal views , he proved less willing or less able to implement them over the opposition of others . |
| 5 | " You have come here chiefly to hunt the rare wild animals in our jungles so that the people of America will be able to see them on display in the Sherman Museum in Washington . |
| 6 | She found herself wondering idly whether , if she and Johnny were to make love now , here beneath the apple tree , Ben would be able to see them from his garden , or Mrs Draper from her bedroom window . |
| 7 | In another sense they may seem to know them too little , to be too little able to see them in relation to other , contemporary , young people : as much chance of a fair assessment from a family as from a school . |
| 8 | It is worth noting , however , that one of the ideas behind the risk theory , namely that losses should be borne by the party best able to absorb them with least dislocation and disruption , is a very popular one in the ( private ) law of tort where the theory of fault liability is , in some areas at least , under attack . |
| 9 | I have watched student teachers attempting dramatic role plays of the Vikings , only to come unstuck with parts for girls ; not really able to encourage them to be raped or pillaged , the only alternative is , as one student hastily improvised , for them to be ‘ Viking wives at home ’ . |
| 10 | And he might bear in mind that muddled dispositions in his will could somehow be validated if the jurists were able to construe them as trusts . |
| 11 | A spokesman for a large nationalised service industry wrote of headhunters being able to provide them with ‘ the feel of external experience ’ and an appreciation of the stature in the market place of their existing staff and the organisation itself , together with a more extensive network of contacts than they could possibly have at their disposal . |
| 12 | By absorbing these , the subject is then in turn able to impose them upon some new domain not previously encountered , and thereby immediately to assimilate this into its particular cultural order . |
| 13 | To illustrate this point , I have given an example of a pattern for a knitted rectangle here in all three types of pattern notation , so that you will be able to relate them to each other . |
| 14 | Blind , deaf , but able to smell ; able to find them by the food smell , even in this raging , wind-swept , rain-driven night … |
| 15 | Both oral presentation and writing , however , have an additional function in helping the researchers to sort out and understand their findings in order to be able to communicate them to others . |
| 16 | It may be argued on the one hand that where the owner of goods was under no tortious liability for their appearance on the occupier 's land , he ought to be able to retake them in any event , provided he does no injury to the premises or gives adequate security for making good any unavoidable injury . |
| 17 | His knowledge of classical music was very comprehensive — you only had to sing him a snatch of any symphony or concerto and he would be able to identify it immediately , but this is n't sufficient to get you up there in front of a hundred or more qualified musicians and be able to lead them into the opening bars of Beethoven 's 5th , or even the Warsaw Concerto . |
| 18 | Three days later , on 23rd. , the Stukas returned to the skies over Malta , and on this occasion the defences were able to engage them without undue fighter interference , although Plt.Off . |
| 19 | They are shown as separate locations only because Drachenfels was able to visit them in whatever order he chose , and characters might somehow be able to by-pass one terrain to get to another in the sequence . |
| 20 | Barton has heavy borrowings too , and to put it crudely , if they 're paying interest and Huerter is n't , Huerter ought to be able to undercut them in the market . ’ |
| 21 | As rock characteristics can vary considerably over very short intervals , it is useful to be able to evaluate them on a continuous basis from log data . |
| 22 | The average Russian ca n't afford a Montego at the moment , but if the economy improves then some skilled workers and farmers may be able to afford them in a couple of years . |
| 23 | If you would like details of your nearest local group so as to be able to help them in activities such as this or to write letters on the cases that they are campaigning on behalf please contact : |
| 24 | Attitudes are changing , partly because managers can see that without their involvement computer systems are unlikely to succeed , and because they believe that computer systems should be able to help them in their decision-making . |
| 25 | Anyone who may be able to help them in their inquiries is urged to contact Stroud Police Station . |
| 26 | What they 're actually asking for is that whether we would be able to help them by arranging for a loan on their behalf , they would service the debt at this time , so I might suggest chairman that we revert it to the finance committee for |
| 27 | Are these sufficiently closely defined for us to be able to apply them to particular cases ? |
| 28 | The skill of the marketing manager therefore lies in understanding how the four categories of the Marketing Mix interact , and in being able to combine them in the most cost-effective manner such that the company 's marketing objectives are satisfactorily achieved . |
| 29 | so if you get to the shop you should n't be able to buy them from unless you took |
| 30 | A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover . |