Example sentences of "able to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot was able to ‘ recognise himself through someone other ’ — a changeable other , but at one point it was the Frenchman Laforgue . |
| 2 | Being able to side-slip , therefore , is a useful safety valve and has prevented many a nasty accident . |
| 3 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've never been able to , ’ said Lucy . |
| 5 | I should be so lucky to be able to . |
| 6 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
| 7 | First , we have evidence from Renée Baillargeon ( see the Bremner volume referred to above ) that babies as young as three or four months are able to ‘ represent ’ , in some sense , the continuing existence of an invisible object behind a screen because they show ‘ surprise ’ when this out-of-sight object does not resist the backwards movement of the screen . |
| 8 | With relatively little loss of traffic or even complaints , InterCity was able to phase out many of its old life-expired Mk 1 coaches . |
| 9 | Moreover , the dancers involved have to take this type of performance very seriously , even though they must be able to ‘ toss off ’ the mistakes with an air of surprised innocence . |
| 10 | By the end of the 80s , Sinitta had established a stable home life suitable for a dog , even if she was n't always able to be around . |
| 11 | If you want to try acupuncture , ask your vet and he should be able to ‘ point ’ you in the right direction ! |
| 12 | It would be able to ‘ require each government department to review its policies , practices , and existing and proposed legislation ’ . |
| 13 | I still intend to train as a doctor , because I feel there is no more interesting and worthwhile way to spend my life , but how many other people will be able to or want to in the future ? |
| 14 | The Hong Kong government , no longer able to down-play the exodus , admitted that at least 45,000 of its best and brightest left last year . |
| 15 | Understandably thinking that he had achieved an odd escape , declarer gleefully played off three rounds of diamonds to discard his losing club , but now it was West who took the setting trick when he was able to ruff . |
| 16 | ‘ Imagine being able to radio to base . |
| 17 | However , ‘ not represented ’ must be understood to include ‘ not willing to be represented ’ , as well as ‘ not able to be represented ’ — a qualification without which the very essence of parliamentary representation itself is denied . |
| 18 | ‘ I get satisfaction from being able to be involved in a number of activities in the part of the world where |
| 19 | After Easter and many other alarms , when none of the girls was able to be in Great Meadow , Rose had her sister buy a brown Franciscan habit in the town . |
| 20 | During the long luxurious breakfast Maggie told Rose and Sheila and Mona more details of her life in London than she was able to the night before — the parties , the dances , the different bands and singers , the boys she met , her girlfriends . |
| 21 | Sometimes , like last night , if we are landing in a field location we will be able to home-in on radio transmissions from a ground station and fly until we are overhead . |
| 22 | It will mean that wide-ranging corporate risks will be able to be placed with just one underwriter . |
| 23 | It will mean that wide-ranging corporate risks will be able to be placed with just one underwriter . |
| 24 | Their contemporary , Batty Langley , advertised in the City and County Builder 's Treasury as being able to ‘ design and build Grottos , Cascades , Caves , Temples , Pavilions , and other Rural Buildings of Pleasure … in the Grand Taste ’ , and this is what the Halfpennys did for Clutterbuck . |
| 25 | Six or seven days , I would say — I 'll not be able to be more precise until the autopsy . ’ |
| 26 | Indeed , some Tory Euro-sceptics like Teddy Taylor now see such a deal as the harbinger of a two-tier Europe in which Britain would be able to ‘ opt out ’ of policies it did not like . |
| 27 | He governs , so far as he is able to , on borrowed time because none of the groups contending for power yet feels strong enough to make a grab for it . |
| 28 | No amount of insisting that black fashion , black history and black speech are as valid as white alters the fact that to get a decent job means to work where being able to ‘ act white ’ pays . |
| 29 | This misconception has meant that their work has not been ‘ subservient to practice ’ , and able to ‘ promote the benefit of life ’ . |
| 30 | There had been a running buffet in the kitchen and they helped themselves when they were hungry , like gauchos on an Argentine estancia , but meals glued life together for Alan 's family and he could be heard intoning , intoning , instructing , instructing in his foggy monotone with never a word in reply , until the children were able to ‘ get down ’ . |