Example sentences of "be able [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study is particularly concerned with the extent to which social science research students acquire skills in quantitative methods and are able to use them after making the transition to employment in social science research . |
| 2 | The stomach cramps had been coming back , off and on , all day , but so far she had been able to keep them under control . |
| 3 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 4 | His knowledge of classical music was very comprehensive — you only had to sing him a snatch of any symphony or concerto and he would be able to identify it immediately , but this is n't sufficient to get you up there in front of a hundred or more qualified musicians and be able to lead them into the opening bars of Beethoven 's 5th , or even the Warsaw Concerto . |
| 5 | Well would n't be able tempt them into er |
| 6 | We 'll be able to mark them on a chart , |
| 7 | Experiments of the most Draconian nature wold be necessary to untangle these possibilities , says Altman , ‘ and you would n't be able to do them in a natural setting like Amboseli ’ . |
| 8 | Now anyone with a spreadsheet should be able to do them in a few hours . |
| 9 | He would not be able to hold them for long . |
| 10 | France will just about be able to hold them in the line-out if Roumat plays , but the so-called hard men in the pack do n't look that tough to me . |
| 11 | " You have come here chiefly to hunt the rare wild animals in our jungles so that the people of America will be able to see them on display in the Sherman Museum in Washington . |
| 12 | She found herself wondering idly whether , if she and Johnny were to make love now , here beneath the apple tree , Ben would be able to see them from his garden , or Mrs Draper from her bedroom window . |
| 13 | I felt a little shy : all those things we had written — would I be able to translate them into physical action , into real , spoken words ? |
| 14 | If that council harboured its resources sensibly and deployed them effectively , it would be able to spend them in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 15 | As rock characteristics can vary considerably over very short intervals , it is useful to be able to evaluate them on a continuous basis from log data . |
| 16 | Now , in terms of functional group isomerism I 'm gon na take a slightly different example right let's take this one here first of all I 've now started to do what the examiners will do now I 'll make them identical structures there somewhere and you really do need to be able to name them in order to see where they are or if they are . |
| 17 | Centres wishing to participate will be able to pilot them from August 1992 . |
| 18 | In deciding whether to begin or continue litigation , one major factor is whether a party will have to pay the costs or be able to recover them from the other party . |
| 19 | In this situation the buyer , as owner of the goods , will be able to recover them from a person having a legal authority to sell them , for example , a sheriff acting in execution of a writ of fi fa to which the SGA 1979 will apply . |
| 20 | Privatization was to be accomplished by a mixed system of " named cheques " given to every Russian citizen , who would be able to redeem them for company shares of their choice , and by the handing over of 30 per cent of all shares in a privatised enterprise to the workforce . |
| 21 | Timing is also of the essence — flowers can be sent to you through the post as soon as the special event is over , but the best option is to be able to press them on the very day that they are used . |
| 22 | Barton has heavy borrowings too , and to put it crudely , if they 're paying interest and Huerter is n't , Huerter ought to be able to undercut them in the market . ’ |
| 23 | Roger Martyn , churchwarden of Long Melford in Suffolk , for example , kept the reredos , organ , clocks , and bells of Holy Trinity Church in his own home , in the hope that his heirs would be able to restore them to the church sometime in the future . |
| 24 | Perhaps I might be able to stop them by exposing them but I do n't think they will allow that to happen . |
| 25 | thought that he could create an advantage by shipping some Russian rocket missiles to his friend , Fidel Castro , in the island of Cuba , so that he would be able to use them as a threat against the continent of North America , a comparatively short distance away . |
| 26 | Whether you not you intend to use the pregenerated characters , take a look at them — you might be able to use them as NPCs at some time . |
| 27 | It may be argued on the one hand that where the owner of goods was under no tortious liability for their appearance on the occupier 's land , he ought to be able to retake them in any event , provided he does no injury to the premises or gives adequate security for making good any unavoidable injury . |
| 28 | Second , the formulation of the Authority 's educational policies and programmes , especially those which teachers are expected to translate into day-to-day practice , should from now on be grounded in prior consultation with teachers and others , together with analysis of relevant conceptual and empirical research , and those devising such policies and programmes should be able to justify them in terms of the considerations which this process will reveal . |
| 29 | If you have babies or young children you will be able to lift them with little effort . |
| 30 | So if you cry babies would stop moaning and get a life and support the greatest , most wonderfully gifted team in the world instead of worrying about petty , shitty sides like Leeds then you 'd be able to watch them on tv all the time . |