Example sentences of "able [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably the national selectors are able only to select from those players who have achieved at least county level . |
| 2 | Moralists able only to think of autonomy , of the active imposition of the will on what is round us , miss the essential values of receptivity , of contemplation , of openness to the splendours of what is not oneself . |
| 3 | She had herself spent several weeks alone in her cottage when she had just bought it and when she returned to mix with people she had found that her vocabulary had deserted her , that without stimulation she had completely lost the art of conversation , had been able only to mutter inanities in monosyllabic form . |
| 4 | The workshop classes were a mixture of all grades of academy , and it was here that I found common ground absorbing my trade instruction ; and happily in this field I was able not to be as conspicuous as I was at school . |
| 5 | Almost immediately it has vanished , able somehow to levée and jetée through the undergrowth without a sound . |
| 6 | Thus the high-modernist building was able simultaneously to enshrine a notion of pure rationality in systems-building , pure formalism in its opposition to ornament , pure functionality which was seen as the basis of its aesthetic value , and pure style . |
| 7 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |