Example sentences of "[adv] able [to-vb] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The department has a multi-cultural staff from Polish to Italian to French , all able to pass on their expertise for national dishes when need be . |
| 2 | Recently , she had started thinking the future was hopeless and that she was no longer able to look after her husband and daughter properly . |
| 3 | Fortunately , they were thus able to agree on her name . |
| 4 | Hugh William Viscount Gough was not able to return to her station until the following day , being on station and ready for service again by 1930 . |
| 5 | Can Joan Halton , within the safety of marriage , dare to protest in a way that gets the protest heard in a way she was not able to do with her mother ? |
| 6 | Mr Vanner , not being a member of the committee which met on Monday night , was not able to speak on his motion , but Tory colleague Doug Pallett was the only councillor to support it . |
| 7 | This is an important question , one which we were not able to pursue in our research as far as we would have liked . |
| 8 | Due to the ‘ own country ’ status of Williams ' case , British members were not able to campaign on his behalf . |
| 9 | Charlie found that he could n't get himself to look at them , although he was still able to see from their reflection in the mirror behind the bar that they were deep in conversation . |
| 10 | Was n't it possible that a man of Jamie 's age might be more able to cope with her feminism , her academic success ? |
| 11 | With reports in wide circulation that she was amassing a multi-million fortune at the rate of £620,000 a month , Kylie was also able to indulge in her passion for shopping . |
| 12 | However , a major difficulty in ensuring the effectiveness of any support scheme is to reach in time the small proportion of the population least able to cope with their crisis . |
| 13 | It is advisable to check that your complaint comes within the Ombudsman 's Terms of Reference , and that he is therefore able to adjudicate in your case . |