Example sentences of "[pers pn] be able [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not got enough land for the horses ' longer holidays , but with friendly farmers around I am able to rent two big ‘ safe ’ fields which are a couple of miles away from home . |
| 2 | I was able to take one of them across with me to Regents Park , where we joined SRS Active and had a boat on the lake . |
| 3 | After a fight , I was able to take three books . |
| 4 | At first there was some response and I was able to meet two officials , Jack Dromey and Miss Catherine Scorer , in Belfast on 28th April 1974 during a visit to Northern Ireland which they were making together with Martin Loney , the general secretary . |
| 5 | Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes . |
| 6 | Because of the way that the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years to a system where mixed ability is introduced year by year from the first to third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school , one lot of pupils in their streamed classes and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes , and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and the mixed ability classes . |
| 7 | I was able to identify four problem areas , namely training , various restrictions to my practice , other nurses being unfamiliar with my parameters of practice , and unrealistic expectations of both medical and nursing staff . |
| 8 | I myself feel sure that you are full of goodness , that you have all knowledge and that you are able to teach one another . |
| 9 | She 's now so knowledgeable about the subject that she was able to spot 2 Brontosaurus-sized blunders in the hit film Jurassic Park . |
| 10 | ‘ As a result we are able to fund three new rolling programmes in Northumberland , Sunderland and Durham , which show the region 's long term commitment to cleaning up land for redevelopment . ’ |
| 11 | Now we are able to employ 16,000 more doctors and dentists than in the late '70s , and no less than 60,000 more nurses . |
| 12 | We were able to visit two of the eight cooperatives that have been set up so far . |
| 13 | By manipulating ornaments on models we were able to eliminate two factors that can confound mate choice experiments involving manipulation of living birds : ( 1 ) intrasexual competition , and ( 2 ) behavioural changes in a live bird resulting directly from manipulation of its ornament . |
| 14 | If we can not specify temporary workers in general , at least we can do so in particular , From the literature we were able to identify 11 categories of worker referred to as temporary workers . |
| 15 | During 1992 we were able to make two small acquisitions . |
| 16 | Based on the amplitude of contraction , we were able to recognise three types of waves as follows : |
| 17 | We were able to measure 30–40 receptors in a given patch . |
| 18 | In all our inns we have plenty of ale , beer and sundry kinds of wine and such is the capacity of some of these that they are able to lodge two hundred or three hundred persons and their horses . |
| 19 | There were no vacancies then , but they were able to move two single ladies into single rooms and we took their room . |
| 20 | He says they were able to move thousands of passengers . |
| 21 | They were able to interview 139 of these service recipients , and in nearly all cases also interviewed their carers . |
| 22 | It 's able to spend ninety percent on books . |
| 23 | It is able to brew 10 different types of beer , including exotically flavoured beers . |
| 24 | For when a religion is put into a position where its , albeit necessary , business activities appear in the eyes of its followers , to be outweighing in importance its original purpose , it ceases to be of the slightest use in so far as it is able to fulfil one of its most important reasons for existence , that is , to provide a satisfactory code of behaviour to be observed in that area of human conduct which can be considered as being subject to moral law . |
| 25 | They provided education , free education , free health services erm one of the modern communication system and ports erm and they ensure job for every Kuwaiti , so you will not find an unemployed Kuwaiti , as soon as he is able to do one job or another the Government provided the training for a large number of Kuwaiti to provide technical works . |
| 26 | Gradually the movement spread until by 1978 , it was able to assemble 5,000 people with a petition for which almost 1,300,000 signatures had been collected , but the petition received little attention from the authorities . |
| 27 | Living near a public course he was able to hit 200 balls a time . |
| 28 | As it transpired he was able to watch one of the most remarkable rounds of golf ever played at Royal St. George 's , or indeed any other golf course . |
| 29 | Although his findings are not different in character from the broad perspective of development already described , he was able to highlight one crucial problem . |
| 30 | He was able to snatch one long weekend in the country , but almost at once he had to start work on the preparation of lectures for a three-week tour of Germany . |