Example sentences of "[be] able [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Players with two yellow cards would be able to sit out the subsequent one-match suspension during an international friendly before the 24-nation tournament , Neuberger added . |
| 2 | Players with two yellow cards would be able to sit out the subsequent one-match sus pension during an international friendly before the 24-nation tournament , Neuberger added . |
| 3 | The difficulty will be to find specialists who know enough about the groups concerned to be able to single out the new one . |
| 4 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |
| 5 | I took over in August 1968 , far from sure that I 'd be able to hold down the key anchor-man role . |
| 6 | Armed with this information , the genealogist should be able to track down the relevant baptism entry in a parish or nonconformist register in the years before civil registration began . |
| 7 | Although you may not be able to track down the precise cause under such circumstances , it can be possible to devise a means of overcoming the problem in most cases of this type . |
| 8 | Volunteers should be able to carry out the minimal work involved , though some dioceses seem curiously reluctant to accept offers of help of this kind . |
| 9 | They do not have either the mental or physical equipment to be able to carry out the many complex activities involved in the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 10 | Mrs Howard said : ‘ Unless we are given a lot more resources we will not be able to carry out the weekly monitoring required . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but you might be able to fill in the odd gap . ’ |
| 12 | Hence , one may be able to work out the broad effect of interdependencies once and for all when the strategy is set . |
| 13 | ‘ With the power of the TARDIS , this brain soup character will be able to screw up the whole universe . |
| 14 | American bilateral agreements that permitted fifth freedom rights especially alarmed the British , as they believed that the United States would be able to scoop up the best routes in a piecemeal fashion . |
| 15 | However with Scott supporting him and the stable having hit form he should be able to knock out the odd winner or two in the coming weeks . |
| 16 | The initial inducement may not be taken by customers to imply the normal credit terms , or if it is , the firm 's credit managers may eventually be able to rein back the actual credit period taken to the planned one month . |