Example sentences of "[am/are] able [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
| 2 | Most sufferers are able to return to their own homes and employment after the completion of four or five weeks of residential treatment . |
| 3 | And the more these artists are able to work on their own , or become very powerful , then the more precious and ungrown-up they tend to become . |
| 4 | Such beliefs are able to stand on their own feet , without support from others . |
| 5 | They are able to identify from their own records those types who are the loyal customers — where average order value is highest , where bad debt is lowest , and where responsiveness to mailshots is highest . |
| 6 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 7 | Although I demonstrated the advantages of the ‘ hot mike ’ system to ICAO and to the US National Transportation Safety Board in 1979 , the resistance to retrospective modifications ( because of the cost involved ) which the US airlines are able to organise through their congressional lobbying activities has prevented its introduction in the USA . |
| 8 | I am able to say to my right hon. Friend that I raised that matter with President Yeltsin very forcibly indeed . |
| 9 | ’ Now I feel that I 'm able to fight for my full rights as a woman and as a human being … |