Example sentences of "be able [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While not present at an event , the writer may have been able to use his own detailed sources which are no longer available — or the writer may have relied on hearsay . |
| 2 | Would it even matter , if this rabble of which he had himself once been a part , managed to get their vote and fill the House of Commons with men who would pass Factory Acts galore , including that damnable Ten Hours Bill of Richard Oastler 's , so that no man would be able to control his own affairs ? |
| 3 | Mr Vernon Malcolm , managing director of the company which supplies parts for Nissan , said most of his employees were paid at least £3.40 an hour , but he needed to be able to set his own rates of pay rather than having them imposed by government . |
| 4 | He wanted to be able to draw his own conclusions , without Naseby 's helpful commentary . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister would be able to appoint his own Cabinet . |
| 6 | Exceedingly self-reliant , each man seemed to be able to do his own thinking and to be purely democratic and independent in his ideas and purposes . |
| 7 | It was rare for the painter to be able to do his own engraving , and conversely few engravers were artists in their own right . |
| 8 | A winner of two handicaps this season , Azhar is as tough as they come and should be able to hold his own in this stronger company . |
| 9 | Now he 'll be able to use his own crop to make paper — which is made at this plant in Scotland . |
| 10 | He will be able to finance his own stockholding of goods . |
| 11 | Would he himself ever know with certainty , be able to postulate his own thoughts as rationally ? |
| 12 | With MDI the skilled craftsman operating this machine would be able to write his own program to control the machine and enter it directly into the machine 's computer . |
| 13 | Be aware , then , that he simply will not be able to proof-read his own work , because he may think , for instance , that latter is the correct way to spell later . |
| 14 | He had enough private means to be able to follow his own highly original path of historical research and reflection , so that his first book , The Age of the Gods ( 1928 ) was the result of fourteen years of research . |
| 15 | Or was she relying on the unlikelihood of Tom 's being able to defend his own corner effectively ? |
| 16 | But it is this commercial work that he sees as fulfilling a far more important function — it is the means by which he is able to fund his own personal projects . |
| 17 | He is able to re-create his own world wherever he goes . |
| 18 | With subsequent context , however , even this can be interpreted as mediated through the mind of Pemberton , who after all is able to draw his own conclusions from Mrs Moreen 's fairly obvious strategy of ridding them of the boy 's company . |
| 19 | For example , non-Christian religions were developed in more detail , and in many places a user was able to treat his own country or religion as the preferred category . |
| 20 | Owen , because he could pay more , was able to draw his own men almost exclusively from the city . |
| 21 | At a distance from France , Nan was able to place his own indoctrination and oppression in perspective . |
| 22 | As premier earl , Harold was able to secure his own election to the throne , but was forced to defend it almost immediately against Scandinavian and Norman claimants . |
| 23 | He was able to express his own upset at his mother 's absence and said that he thought she had gone away because he had been naughty . |
| 24 | I once asked Kalchu how he was able to tell his cows one from the other , and how he was able to distinguish his own from other people 's . |