Example sentences of "able [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calatin will be able to weave the spell that will protect you from the fire of the Time Chariot . ’ |
| 2 | One woman told me that it was the day she was able to swim the width of the local pool after years of being afraid . |
| 3 | At the LTB 's annual meeting last week , Lord Pitt said London was being undermined as a tourist attraction by a ‘ lack of some kind of co-ordinating body , able to promote the capital and fight for its best interests ’ . |
| 4 | The first was a continuation of the earlier sales because Iran had now promised that within about two months it would be able to arrange the release of the remaining five American hostages . |
| 5 | In 1985 we finally were able to arrange the long-awaited visit . |
| 6 | you may also be able to arrange the items to make a pleasing sequence of colour schemes ; |
| 7 | Best you stay with me till we get to Argyle Street-you 'll no be able to miss the station then . ’ |
| 8 | They 're only little buses so you wo n't be able to miss the stop . |
| 9 | You are also like to feel more confident and able to cope the second time around . |
| 10 | That came through their being cooped up at Jerusalem in the persecution which followed on the death of Stephen : as a result of the ordinary followers of Jesus being scattered by that persecution , they were able to preach the good news along the Phoenician seaboard until they came to Antioch , later to become the home of the Gentile mission . |
| 11 | By having this , you are able to hit the ball anywhere on the opposing court . |
| 12 | He had never been able to hit the animal but he knew how to throw a punch , and the Punk was n't such a good mover as Cobber . |
| 13 | No he 's just practising at the moment lovey he 's practising his swing but I agree if he stood that distance he would n't be able to hit the ball would he would you . |
| 14 | And if they offer the unit or investment trust options , they must also offer shares or you will not be able to invest the maximum amount . |
| 15 | If you rely to your detriment on a misleading reference which was given negligently , you should be able to sue the referee . |
| 16 | If a substantial loss has been suffered you may be able to sue the vendor , and if you lack financial resources you may qualify for legal aid . |
| 17 | The consignee is then able to sue the carrier directly , but is also subject to the latter 's direct suit . |
| 18 | Secondly , where an exemption clause is not invalidated by section 2 , the buyer may be able to sue the seller for breach of contract and to defeat the exemption clause by virtue of sections 6 or 3 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 19 | Largely due to her courage and drive she enabled them to grow in stature so that the choirs were able to perform the major choral works drawing an audience of over 1,000 at a performance of the Dream of Gerontius and be broadcast with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on three occasions . |
| 20 | The logic of Ormrod J. 's decision must cause us to say that the male in these examples is no longer able to perform the essential role of a male — that is , assert his biological maleness — and is not , therefore , a male for the purposes of marriage , and that therefore there is no marriage . |
| 21 | The existing knowledge about the employee from inside the organization makes it easier to decide whether he or she is able to perform the work well . |
| 22 | And it is also the mechanisms by which the cells or parts of them are able to perform the instructions . |
| 23 | This has led some people to commit what may conveniently be called ‘ Sahlins ’ fallacy' ( Sahlins 1976 ) , and to suppose that the operation of kin selection requires that animals , or people , are able to perform the necessary calculations . |
| 24 | Sixty years ago C. J. Herrick , the American comparative anatomist , dubbed it the ‘ organ of civilisation ’ , and I have set myself the task of seeing how far our scientific knowledge of nerve cells might earn the neocortex this grandiose title : Would these nerve cells , as actors , be able to perform the play , ‘ Civilisation ’ ? |
| 25 | Working within a paradigm , the fundamentals of which they take for granted , they are able to perform the exacting experimental and theoretical work necessary to improve the match between the paradigm and nature to an ever-greater degree . |
| 26 | One detail needed confirmation , and Huy knew that he would not be able to perform the task himself . |
| 27 | One more duty I was able to perform the next day . |
| 28 | Greenpeace and others also point out that the HMIP has only a small team of monitors and will not be able to perform the tasks of the NRA in this sphere . |
| 29 | The assessment by the police is to eliminate erm any officer that er has psychopathic tendencies or er on the other side of the coin , to eliminate those officers that erm might be so timid that they would n't be able to perform the duties should it be necessary for them to fire a weapon . |
| 30 | And I like the way the Lib-Dems are : catholic in their outlook , tolerant and wide-ranging , able to embrace the raffish radical and the Wesleyan non-conformist alike . |