Example sentences of "[be] able [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's only groggy , not out , but you 're able to secure him to the bed with the other set of handcuffs and the leather straps from the same drawer the hood came from . |
| 2 | Rather , while ageing is often experienced as a disruptive life event , some people find that they are able to accommodate themselves to the changes — both practical and emotional — in their lives . |
| 3 | But even if we are able to accommodate ourselves to the fact that our parents were not altogether " good " from the child 's viewpoint , we may still retain the ideal in our minds . |
| 4 | And without doubt , many birds as well as pigeons , are able to guide themselves by the earth 's magnetism . |
| 5 | Although social classes change over time , they are able to reproduce themselves to the extent that they can maintain their distinctive position in the social structure within and across generations . |
| 6 | But if you see the top man around the business you are able to look him in the eye and tell whether you can trust him or not . |
| 7 | This does not mean that all pensioners live in poverty , but the effect of age discrimination is to depress the whole of this group 's income and it is only those with access to higher incomes through , for example , substantial occupational pensions , who are able to cushion themselves against the economic consequences . |
| 8 | She wished that she had been able to spot him in the crowd . |
| 9 | With the binoculars that they carried , they must have been able to see her from the moment that she set out . |
| 10 | I have never been able to see it with the naked eye ( as some observers claim to have done ) , but it is not hard to find with × 7 , and it is easy with × 8.5 . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , a blow has been struck for the land-owning taxpayer , particularly those less well-off individuals who have not been able to defend themselves against the local district valuer 's increasingly aggressive commercial techniques . |
| 12 | He has never been able to do anything about the chairs . |
| 13 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 14 | Sir I commend to you the expert evidence relating to the historic character and I hope sir when you visit this site , although it may look very different at this moment from the way it would have done had you been able to visit it after the originally scheduled date of this enquiry , when the daffodils were out , |
| 15 | She could have wished it otherwise — then she might have been able to lose herself in the crowd . |
| 16 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 17 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 18 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 19 | I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’ |
| 20 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 21 | Trapped in the revolving world of afternoon TV , this is a man who would have quite happily recorded the LP from the comfort of his bed had they been able to fit it in the studio . |
| 22 | It had been his only relationship , a habit of natural loyalty founded in his childhood , further cemented by the dependence of the field officer on his Control , and never questioned in its foundations … perhaps because , in accepting the Colonel as his father-figure , he had been able to protect himself from the manner of his real father 's death . |
| 23 | Our advise would be to first speak to your accountants who would be able to talk you through the various options which are : |
| 24 | Spokesman Jun Shimoyamada said : ‘ You 'll be able to immerse yourself in the picture . ’ |
| 25 | His knowledge of classical music was very comprehensive — you only had to sing him a snatch of any symphony or concerto and he would be able to identify it immediately , but this is n't sufficient to get you up there in front of a hundred or more qualified musicians and be able to lead them into the opening bars of Beethoven 's 5th , or even the Warsaw Concerto . |
| 26 | If it is not , and the root ball crumbles , you are not going to be able to plant it in the ground without disturbing the roots . |
| 27 | Nor do I think they will be able to charge anything like the premium they used to ; in fact , it 's debatable whether they 'll be able to charge a premium at all . ’ |
| 28 | Er and to be able to pick it off the machine at the end of the day you know , as a first class , simple object at , at a competitive price . |
| 29 | Oxfam is regularly approached with inventions and has not yet decided whether it will be able to do something with the ’ friendly fuel ’ . |
| 30 | He had no idea that he would ever be able to do anything about the predicament . |