Example sentences of "able to see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , therefore with considerable pleasure that I can report that the Association was able during 1990 to contribute directly more than £250,000 to the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal , and was able to see the income generated by its own Wings Appeal increase by 47% . |
| 2 | Visitors were able to see the versatility of design and product range by a display which portrayed the four themes of shipping , hotel and leisure , pubs and commercial interiors . |
| 3 | A sound studio is actually likely to be much more distracting as you will usually be able to see the engineers and technicians working away in the control room and researchers or producers may be passing notes to the presenter . |
| 4 | fortunately we are now able to see the complexity of the processes more clearly through the painstaking researches of Soviet scholars . |
| 5 | Signora Mancini 's guests find staying here , they are really able to see the wonders of the Italian countryside at close range . |
| 6 | Only Mr. Smith said he had been able to see the man 's face . |
| 7 | It was the nature of dogs to eat cats and he had never been able to see the sense of trying to stop them . |
| 8 | The Ridgery was still in view but they were now much further from it and Ridgery Butts was well behind them almost out of sight ; Allen had just been able to see the church tower . |
| 9 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 10 | I kind of wished I 'd sat behind Verity ; I would n't have seen so much of her — not even a hint of that slim , smooth face , frowning in concentration as she barrelled the big black Beemer towards the next corner — but I would n't have been able to see the speedometer , either . |
| 11 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 12 | If the case is going to committee you are able to see the agenda and relevant background papers three working days in advance of the meeting , which will be held in public . |
| 13 | Dicke and Peebles argued that we should still be able to see the glow of the early universe , because light from very distant parts of it would only just be reaching us now . |
| 14 | The font supplier provides one font for the screen so that the user will be able to see the type as it will appear and a second font for the printer . |
| 15 | You will now be able to see the type of ceiling which is fitted below the joists — either plasterboard or lath-and-plaster . |
| 16 | Also for me , I was able to see the type of job I wanted to do . |
| 17 | You may also be able to see the rabbit at this stage . |
| 18 | I 'll not be able to see the board . |
| 19 | Sandy Lyle says fairness is what makes a good course … it 's important to be able to see the dangers from the tee … he says that the new Oxfordshire club has everything to make it a success … a lovely club house … good parking … within easy reach of motorways and is built for big tournaments |
| 20 | Probably , by the time he came to write Surprised by Joy his way of looking at himself had become so idiosyncratic that he was not able to see the significance of these two relationships in his religious , as well as in his whole emotional , development . |
| 21 | Visitors will be able to see the livingroom from a Lauderdale Farm in the 1930s , where a shepherd , his wife and three children lived . |
| 22 | One example er , a couple of examples erm , we 've worked together with the unions in Moulinex in northern France who bought Swan Kettles er which is where the G M B is erm is highly organized and er in those er meetings between the unions in , in Moulinex and Swan we 've been able to see the disparity between the conditions and the wages and be able to speak about ways in which people can go back to their , to their er workplace and work on that with that knowledge . |
| 23 | You should be able to see the filling in the middle . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , and you should be able to see the bottom of the rear tyres of the car in front to be able to manoeuvre round it if need be . |
| 25 | Everybody hates a bad leaver but , whereas in the West you can usually close the door on a guest who has finally reached the garden gate , in the islands it is impolite to stop waving and chanting until he is either round a corner and out of sight , or else too distant to be able to see the whites of his eyes . |
| 26 | As a member of the Procedure Committee , I was one of those who urged — not least at my hon. Friend 's insistence — that the House should once again be able to see the answers to parliamentary questions on social security matters . |
| 27 | ‘ Some 20 million South Africans , black and white , ’ continued Dr Bacher , ‘ will be able to see the cricket on this tour live on TV , and will see how cricket has brought people together in the West Indies . |
| 28 | It is vital that relatives are able to see the consultant , nurse or social worker on their own if we wish to . |
| 29 | He was the match winner at Old Trafford and the selectors should once more be able to see the folly of their ways . |
| 30 | Still able to see the problem , they no longer knew where to find its solution , and seemed happy in consequence to embrace their own annihilation . |