Example sentences of "able to see the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might not be able to see the dark chest hair which curled up towards his throat , but she could imagine it . |
| 2 | She instructed Nina to radio for the county ambulance before climbing the stairs to the first floor of the jig and following the foreman along the boards for about twenty yards until they were able to see the injured man . |
| 3 | The time passed all too quickly but later all were able to see the resultant masks of heads and hands thus produced . |
| 4 | This great change in scientific thinking meant little to the masses , but they were able to see the great benefits of modern scientific practice despite the faltering of the economic system . |
| 5 | Despite the seeming social compassion for ageing workers , it is important that the counsellor of retired and retiring people is able to see the reverse side of this apparent concern . |
| 6 | Who is best able to see the overall picture : the people in the rocket or ground control ? |
| 7 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 8 | It was a wide corridor , gloomy and undecorated and very long , but at last Bernice was able to see the far end : a wall moulded into the likeness of a grotesque face . |
| 9 | 3.14 There is a head of damage which is sometimes called the loss of amenities ; the man made blind by the accident will no longer be able to see the familiar things he has seen all his life ; the man who has had both legs removed and will never again go upon his walking excursions — things of that kind — loss of amenities ( per Birkett LJ in Manley v Rugby Portland Cement Co Ltd , a decision of the Court of Appeal in 1951 ) . |
| 10 | The successful candidates will also be able to see the finished results of their new look in the June edition of the Clothes Show Magazine . |
| 11 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 12 | You must be able to see the adverse behaviour and describe it precisely . |
| 13 | ‘ With the highlights package , now at last they will be able to see the best cricket at the time they will want to watch it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ With the highlights package , now at last they will be able to see the best cricket at the time they will want to watch it . ’ |
| 15 | He may not be able to see the political and general interest wood for the specialist trees , and there is a sense in which there are obviously dangers of that kind erm and the generalist has always taken the view that it 's for the specialist to be able to explain his problems in language which , after all , politicians who take the final decisions will have to be able to understand . |
| 16 | We will for the first time be able to see the new system work . |
| 17 | Also if the focus is on an ability to communicate then it is better to be able to see the visual as well as the aural aspects of the interaction . |
| 18 | There is obviously a scholarly interest in being able to see the two versions of ‘ La Dance ’ , from our museum and from the Hermitage , or the two versions of ‘ Nasturtiums with dance ’ from the Metropolitan Museum and from the Hermitage . |
| 19 | Then they need to know they will be able to see the other parent regularly . |
| 20 | also had one of its diesel locos on show and the many people that took part in the sponsored walk along the tracks to Mells Road , three miles towards Frome , were able to see the other two locos and the site of where the association will have its engineering base . |
| 21 | I pulled over to the emergency lane , barely able to see the other cars on the road . |
| 22 | You will be able to see the lush green streamer weed swaying in the current , and if you look carefully , letting your eyes adjust to the movement of the current and weed , preferably with the use of polaroid spectacles , you may see one or more black shapes that suddenly emerge from under the green ribbon , hover for a few seconds in the open water and then just as suddenly disappear back into the weed . |
| 23 | The cabin light was on and Fen was bending over her , disturbingly close , close enough for her to be able to see the individual pores in his swarthy skin . |
| 24 | You were looking at the beetle world in such a way as to be able to see the third dimension . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | All at once Matilda was able to see the whole situation with absolute clarity . |
| 29 | From the air she was able to see the whole length of the valley and she could only guess at its size . |
| 30 | A subject only able to see the single large letters at the top of the chart ( the 6/60 line ) would be able only to discriminate at 6m what the normally sighted person would see clearly at 60m . |