Example sentences of "able [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish that we had been able during the last few months to persuade our European colleagues that we are not arguing just for a narrow British position . |
| 2 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 3 | The war seemed to have swept away the slightly homosexual attitudes of that corner of the pub , for which Charles was thankful , though not feeling particularly able for the brittle heterosexual backchat around him this evening . |
| 4 | In 1989 , however , the University allocated the VanDyck Gallery in Park Row to the Collection and the following year , which by a happy coincidence marked its 40th anniversary , the Theatre Collection was able for the first time to mount an exhibition in its own Gallery . |
| 5 | He held his head defiantly lifted , as if he wished no man to see him in dejection ; somehow I felt the gesture very characteristic , and was able for the first time to recognize his arrogance . |
| 6 | The question sometimes arises whether in fact the plaintiff will be able for the rest of his life to obtain outside the National Health Service the facilities that he requires . |
| 7 | The earliest church in Jerusalem were able after the miracle of Pentecost to be ‘ one in heart and mind ’ . |
| 8 | The most able of the judges was unquestionably Isambard Kingdom Brunel . |
| 9 | I have made as accurate an estimate as I am able of the value of my own estate , and have arrived at a total of about £580,000 . |
| 10 | Of course the two regimes , of legacy and trust , were assimilated to each other in certain relatively minor respects ; but Gaius was still able in the mid-second century to state that there were many differences between legacies and trusts ( multum autem differunt ) , and this was after the rules on capacity had finally been brought into line by Hadrian . |
| 11 | Their aim was to start from the bottom up and to grow a church that would be able in the end to plant other churches . |
| 12 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |
| 13 | It was an exhausting schedule , and he was not able in the end to maintain it . |
| 14 | The projects were to be of real and lasting value , and able in the long run to pay for themselves . |
| 15 | For the future for erm , for record , we 've not been able in the past to know how people spoke only from books , dictionaries and try to describe how people said things , erm , but this is a living record and I 'm getting more and more embarrassed as the minutes go by and those of you who are doing drama this afternoon , anybody doing drama ? |
| 16 | I hope that Mr. Vance , with whom we have been in touch in the past 24 hours , will feel able in the light of his further explorations to suggest to the Security Council that a peace-keeping force should be sent . |
| 17 | You could , you may , what you may feel confident in er , your employment prospects , you know , if you 're the , the most able in the village or , you know , in your little sort of , social environment |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Government should introduce 100pc rebates for people least able to the pay the poll tax , claimed Middlesbrough council leader Mike Carr . |
| 20 | So to be able to the sweepstake in the past another church and they could be , they could be on the interest you know , the amount towards running costs such as this . |
| 21 | There is no point in reading quickly , however , unless you are able at the same time to take in the meaning of what you are reading . |
| 22 | In many cases he was even able at the first consultation to diagnose the probable organism which the patient was harbouring on the basis of the patient 's temperament , and was able to confirm these later by bacteriological studies . |
| 23 | The pope acknowledges Oswiu 's conversion to orthodoxy and the Roman Easter , thanks him for the gifts he has sent but grieves that the bearer of these gifts had died in Rome , and regrets that he has not been able at the time of writing to find someone suitable to send as Wigheard 's replacement . |
| 24 | Whether senior buyers are able at the same time to exercise an influencing and decision making role will depend on organisational factors . |
| 25 | The County Council 's position is it does n't feel able at the moment to express a definitive view on these three elements in respect of er of either sector . |
| 26 | therefore letting , opening the door wide open to , who are able at the moment on the current generation of platforms , and the next generation . |
| 27 | there is one there now , but we were n't able at the time , no |
| 28 | I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings . |
| 29 | All pupils , therefore , must be able by the age of 16 to use spoken and written Standard English ; but schools have the responsibility to develop their own policies on the detail of how this should be done . |