Example sentences of "[be] able [to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The cards are being sent to the Welsh Office for Mr Redwood 's attention in batches as we are able to sort them out into community areas , ’ said campaign secretary Bryn Williams-Jones . |
| 2 | Most of us have these harmless ‘ floaters ’ and are able to put them out of our minds . |
| 3 | You may have the rest that you covet as soon as I am able to make it over to you . ’ |
| 4 | In many ways , he would have preferred to have been able to give himself over to the delusion and accept it as truth ; but there seemed to be a definite boundary here , and it was n't his choice whether or not he crossed it . |
| 5 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 6 | For those leaving , we believe we have offered good separation terms , and we have , in many cases , been able to back them up with independent , professional job-counselling . |
| 7 | You told her you had n't been able to get her out of your mind and begged for another chance . |
| 8 | Nothing had ever been able to keep her down for long — another advantage of her Arian birth-sign , her mother would have insisted . |
| 9 | I might have been able to pay you off within six months ! ’ |
| 10 | If he 'd just been trying to clear the hell out , then it meant there were probably other FAKINTIL escapers at large who had n't been able to make it back to the mountains either . |
| 11 | A year ago she 'd have been able to race him out to the ketch , maybe even climbed on deck and dived off … |
| 12 | Pat Palmer would like to establish an emergency telephone chain in each Area and it is hoped that every Area Organiser will be able to set one up by the Autumn using the same overlap list as for collecting class statistics . |
| 13 | He had assured her he would be able to lead her out of the forest , but so far they seemed only to have become tangled further in its mazy pathways . |
| 14 | I sipped cocoa , and wondered how and when I would be able to turn him out into the night again . |
| 15 | I mean I do n't think that many people can do convincing Neville Brody pages , presumably he has three of them — the three- or ten , or however many he has , to be able to turn them out with him being around , but as soon as he walks away it 's not as good . |
| 16 | No , he will be able to sort them out into a short-list of three or four for further interview . |
| 17 | Foreign lawyers will still be able to practise as such on their own within the UK without registering but solicitors employed by them will not be able to hold themselves out as such to clients of the business . |
| 18 | Well I 'll be able to take them down in a minute . |
| 19 | She said I wo n't be able to take you out to lunch till after Christmas time cos I 'll be far too busy . |
| 20 | Speak to you vet who may be able to manipulate it back into place . |
| 21 | He or she has to believe it , and to be able to back it up with reasons which he or she also believes . |
| 22 | If the tile has simply slipped out of place but is undamaged ( that is , it still has its hanging ‘ nibs ’ on the back ) , you should be able to slide it back into place after easing up the surrounding tiles under wood wedges . |
| 23 | It is essential ‘ to appreciate other people 's points of view but to be able to swing them round to yours if necessary ’ , a social skill which must be practised in an extremely wide range of relationships . |
| 24 | It had occurred to him that maybe , just maybe , they 'd be able to link him in with what he 'd done . |
| 25 | You are also likelier to be able to carry it through with you at airport check-ins . |
| 26 | But if she did that John would n't be able to let himself in with his key . |
| 27 | Erm if you you will not be able to put it back after that date . |
| 28 | We may be able to put it off for a while , but make that decision , we have got to , some day or another . |
| 29 | The two Englishmen missed their family and their lives in England , and had thought that even with no money and no civilian clothes they would be able to make it back across France to one of the Channel ports . |
| 30 | There was also a group of wounded men , some of whom would not be able to make it back to Kufra . |