Example sentences of "able [to-vb] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dedicated group of local people determined to reconstruct the garden and were able to acquire the whole property when the bus station moved . |
| 2 | But just as the narrator has difficulty in piecing together the fragments of her story , so we as readers are never able to see the whole picture . |
| 3 | The blueprints we draw up about the environment we inhabit and our place in it are sketched in outline when we are very young and least able to see the whole picture . |
| 4 | When it comes to improvising you should be able to see the whole scale over the entire neck of your instrument , thereby providing total freedom on your bass . |
| 5 | All at once Matilda was able to see the whole situation with absolute clarity . |
| 6 | From the air she was able to see the whole length of the valley and she could only guess at its size . |
| 7 | For what is being implied is that graduates should be able to internalize the whole universe of knowledge , because in theory all knowledge is interconnected and critique can draw upon any domain of knowledge in the act of placing or evaluating a discipline . |
| 8 | She 'd be able to view the whole episode in perspective : see it for what it was , a brief flirtation brought about by proximity , boredom , and lack of alternative company . |
| 9 | Centre — because we need to be able to cover the whole region from one central site . |
| 10 | We want to be able to challenge the whole idea of housework being women 's work , just as we want to challenge whether engineering or surgery or being a crane driver or a football referee , whether any of those are men 's jobs . |
| 11 | Picking up on ‘ The Real Share Issue ’ and ‘ The Poor have n't a Share in the World ’ we may be able to give the whole campaign a title and see each unit as ‘ A Share for the Poor ’ . |
| 12 | As he did the actual stitching , Shelley took over the grip on the tourniquet , until the skin was pulled together , and she was able to give the whole area a good wipe of iodine , before putting a clean dry dressing on the hand . |
| 13 | The whole place has got an air of being run down , and county council , I think to be honest , would quite like it to fall down , or just to be able to develop the whole site . |
| 14 | A substantial proportion of pupils in all three bands were able to get the whole number of metres correct . |
| 15 | It has handles at each end so that you will be able to move the whole thin , makes watering more effective , incorporates cane-supports , costs £19.95 and looks fine . |
| 16 | As an adjunct to assertion and challenge it is vital for teachers , both individually and collectively , within the school and externally , to be able to clarify the whole structure of the demand/limitation framework within which they are working . |
| 17 | ‘ There are some things that are too subtle for television advertising and you are not going to be able to tell the whole story in 30 seconds . |
| 18 | ‘ Needs must , ’ lied Sally-Anne , who was beginning to wonder whether she would ever be able to tell the whole truth again . |