Example sentences of "[be] able [verb] [adv] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | His son has been able to buy back some of these volumes and his own collection on this subject now numbers around 8,000 volumes . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sure you 'll be able to pick up some ideas . ’ |
| 3 | But we do know enough to be able to pick out some clear changes , and continuities too , by tracing particular themes . |
| 4 | So in order to have something that enables you to keep records of two or three hundred customers , and then of course to be able to print out some sort of lists or invoices at the end of it , you would need to pay , probably even now , a couple of thousand pounds , and very often of course more . |
| 5 | It is in fact NACAB policy that advice workers should be able to carry out some limited counselling functions and they do run training to that end . |
| 6 | I am making the assumption that Kirov will be able to fill in some of the blanks once we come up with a workable number … probably no more than three . |
| 7 | Without committing themselves they would be able to test out some of their newest toys — ’ |
| 8 | From this profusion of language-specific material one then might be able to build up some idea of just which aspects of the context of utterance are likely in general to exert functional pressures on language . |
| 9 | Davide haggled ; he got him five per cent , and knew that the man would be able to claw back some more , as well as keep some of the harvest . |
| 10 | We are not saying that taxpayers should not be able to claw back some of the costs at a later stage , but the carer 's position should be protected . |
| 11 | The social worker may be able to free up some complex feelings ; however the emphasis in this kind of work is on the impact of recent events , not on trying to unscramble past jealousies and conflicts . |
| 12 | The retina contains only nine light detectors , but by scanning the image up to ten times each second it is able to build up some kind of picture . |
| 13 | In ( 3 ) , SPAR is able to identify both some biscuits and a bowl on the floor , allowing both definite noun phrases to be fully resolved ; but it can not find any biscuits that are already in a bowl . |
| 14 | It was a great thing to get HE into a village to see conditions and what needs to be done , and I was able to press home some of my own ideas about village life and health . |
| 15 | By chasing the index entries under Cognitive , I was able to put together some disparate information on cognitive approaches to language , but I am still unclear whether there is a definable school of linguists working under that name . |
| 16 | Taking a two-fisted grip on my spare tyre , I was able to wrench round some flesh and get a good look at one of these bloodless wounds . |