Example sentences of "they able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they able to look without too dominant a preconception coming from the Western tradition ? |
| 2 | They have been spied on by the paparazzi , betrayed by trusted servants , embarrassed by indiscreet friends , and have had to endure a constant torrent of innuendo , gossip , lies and half-truths in newspapers , magazines and books — none of which are they able to repudiate . |
| 3 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1934 , 1962 The Czechoslovaks have only been seen twice in the tournament proper since they reached the 1962 final and on neither occasion were they able to win a match . |
| 4 | No longer were they able to allow for unforeseen problems so they looked at their traditional contracts for any opportunity for reimbursement of additional costs . |
| 5 | For if they are able to communicate danger ( what greater danger to a plant can there be that something destroying its leaves or roots ? ) , one wonders what other signals are they able to pass between themselves ? |
| 6 | As numerous fitted-up Irishmen can bear witness , and not to mention James Hanratty and others , were they able to speak from the grave , hallowed British justice is a myth . |
| 7 | The parents were not shown all the items taken by the police ; nor were they able to oversee the systematic search of their home . |
| 8 | Nor were they able to shed any light on the problem . |
| 9 | In this case the eye is too short and the rays of light , were they able to do so , would fall behind the retina . |
| 10 | Nor were they able to serve new needs in radically different ways . |
| 11 | Racial nationalists and extreme anti-semites respected Leese 's fanaticism and dedication to the cause , but were not prepared to obey his commands or views without question , nor were they able to get personally close to him . |
| 12 | Were they able to ? |
| 13 | As they drive around the countryside the newcomers can not distinguish between those fields which have been ploughed with a supreme exhibition of the farm worker 's skills and those which have not ; nor are they able to appreciate the beauty of a faultlessly drilled seed-bed , healthy stock or clean weed-free fields . |
| 14 | Not only were they able to pick out more surface counters and make more judgments but these were different in kind . |
| 15 | How are they able to do that ? |
| 16 | If the Declaration of Rights gave the Tories the sort of legal assurances they wanted , to what extent were they able to accommodate themselves to the break in the hereditary succession ? |
| 17 | Rarely do the investors have a documented past record to analyse , nor are they able to glean information from historic share price data . |