Example sentences of "[be] able [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why they 're able to go for these very precise figures of public spending , scientific precision about estimates for the years ahead and then say , ‘ All argument hereafter ceases . |
| 2 | Well , certainly this particular piece of work would have been held up , er the salary that we 're able to provide for this young researcher was absol , absolutely essential , and in Great Britain there is an enormous reliance on charitable funding for research , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 3 | In this way researchers are able to search for direct comparisons between reports and to isolate categories of phenomena . |
| 4 | After a few minutes of practise , subjects adapt and are able to compensate for this distortion . |
| 5 | The ZIBF Bookshop , through which Zimbabwean book buyers are able to pay for imported books in local currency , is being expanded , and an application has been lodged with the authorities for a significantly increased foreign currency allocation . |
| 6 | If the general practitioner pronounces the patient fit enough , he may be able to start driving a car again , although he may need to retake a driving test if he has not been able to drive for several months . |
| 7 | Their speciality was tunes like In Sans Souci — to remind Twenties Berliners of that nice Sunday afternoon tram ride they could take out to Frederick the Great 's summer palace at Potsdam — a trip no West Berliner has been able to take for half a century . |
| 8 | His flight had left New York three hours after the Paris flight and by then the worst of the turbulence over the Atlantic had dissipated so he had been able to sleep for most of the journey . |
| 9 | Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure . |
| 10 | Give my respect and thanks to the author , whose novel is the first English one and the French are only romances now , that I have been able to read for many a day . |
| 11 | The word ‘ appears ’ is used advisedly because , although computers have been used to show that the equation does not work for values of n up to several thousand , no one has yet been able to prove for certain that there is no number n greater than 2 for which suitable values of x , y and z can not be slotted in to produce a valid equation . |
| 12 | SGML is supposed to be able to do for document-based information what SQL did for proprietary databases . |
| 13 | It might not be to everyone 's taste or be able to last for hundreds of years but you have to admit that she would turn a few heads if she appeared sitting casually in your garden . |
| 14 | I enjoy my work at the playgroup and hope I will be able to continue for many years to come ’ |
| 15 | In exceptional cases they may be able to continue for 300 yards , but beyond this they quickly become exhausted and give up . |
| 16 | It is often assumed that personal contacts will push through more of your material than that of other PROs and that you will be able to ask for favourable comment here and there . |
| 17 | In some sense it will be more difficult because you will not be able to ask for further details . |
| 18 | A theory of standardization must be able to account for such songs ; and Adorno 's approach surely begins to crack at this point . |
| 19 | If not , he argues , players should be able to opt for another country if — like John Gallagher or the Samoans playing in the All Black trials — they want to play at the highest level regardless of country . |
| 20 | During a hot summer 's day you would n't be able to move for frazzled tourists but when the weather is miserable it 's a different story . |
| 21 | I hope you will be able to arrange for some assistance , possibly by including the burial ground in your Grounds Maintenance contract . |
| 22 | ‘ Indeed , ’ my father said , and shovelled so much food into his mouth he would n't be able to speak for another minute or so . |
| 23 | SCOTTISH , Welsh and Northern Irish athletes will be able to prepare for next January 's Commonwealth Games in Auckland at training camps in Australia in spite of the financial constraints which have imposed limits on the size of their teams . |
| 24 | Better educated mothers may be able to compensate for some unfavourable conditions , where women with no schooling may not , and so on . |
| 25 | The normal absorptive capacity of the colon , estimated to be as much as six litres per day , should be able to compensate for significant fluid losses from the small intestine in secretory diarrhoea . |
| 26 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 27 | Because of the Westernisation of the Christian community , and because of their reputation for hard work and honesty , Goans have always be able to emigrate for higher pay . |
| 28 | When the sewage treatment plant comes into operation in 1998 it will be able to cater for four times the population of Whitby . |
| 29 | Regular budgetary control reports should be able to show for each item : |
| 30 | The total ban on all vehicles including cycles will run from 10.30am to 4pm and they stressed disabled drivers who get into the area before 10.30 would be able to stay for three hours before driving out . |