Example sentences of "[be] able [to-vb] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you believe that he said I 've got to work on the aeroplane this week , I 've got the week off , I 've got to work on the aeroplane , I , you know , I shall be alright , down the airfield , er on the Wednesday he arrived to see how we were getting on , complaining like made because he had n't been able to find where the cottage was , I said but I 'd left you a detailed map , |
| 2 | so far as they have made some er adjustment , we will be able to judge whether the scale of adjustment they 've made was a was a reasonable thing . |
| 3 | Turkey 's experts , they said , needed the co-operation of the Metropolitan to be able to ascertain whether the objects formed part of the Lydian hoard . |
| 4 | We would like to be able to recognise whether the BFS corresponding to P1/T2 , ( x 1 , x 2 , x 3 ) = ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) , is efficient . |
| 5 | At work there is a great deal of empiricism — sometimes it becomes almost a mystique , as in the steel-making process where the head melter was once supposed to be able to tell whether the melt was ‘ done ’ by spitting into it . |
| 6 | You will only be able to tell whether the roof is new or old . |
| 7 | You will not otherwise be able to tell if the dog is marked in this fashion . |
| 8 | Many of these people were able to escape before the town was overwhelmed , but about 2,000 died ; some because they elected to remain in what they thought was the safety of their houses , some because they left their escape until it was too late , some because they were too burdened down with prized possessions to move quickly enough , and some because they were just plain unlucky . |
| 9 | The first observation I was able to make when the books were gathered together was that , although almost all the press coverage had been about public libraries , since they were the focus of political controversy , only c . |