Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need not only to be able to swim in a sea of uncertainty but also to resist panic when we get out of our depth . |
| 2 | In London your pupil-master is unlikely to be able to arrange for an offer of a seat ( i.e. a room , or share of a room ) to be made to you . |
| 3 | Although pupils with little or no sight will , with training , be able to cope with a variety of environmental situations and even obstacles such as odd chairs , waste-paper baskets or sharp-cornered pieces of furniture scattered or left about in unexpected places , these are an unnecessary and possibly harmful source of trouble for those with visual problems . |
| 4 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 5 | Other women might be able to cope with an affair that was based on passion and nothing else , but she knew herself well enough to realise she could only be permanently scarred by such an involvement . |
| 6 | As a Central Announcer , Hilary Holden writes her own scripts and has to be able to cope in a crisis . |
| 7 | 4 not being able to cope in an emergency , e.g. a haemorrhage or cardiac arrest . |
| 8 | Since there was no question of us being able to invest in a cargo ourselves , let alone afford to charter the empty vessel , our only solution lay in returning to Makassar and attempting to persuade our Chinese friends to raise the merchandise themselves and to send us along as its stewards and guardians . |
| 9 | The continuing resistance of the young Duke of Aquitaine delayed the progress of peace talks between the Kings of England and France but on 8 September they were able to agree to a truce until Michaelmas ( 29 September ) , the terms of which specifically excluded Richard . |
| 10 | In Europe the occupying powers were at last able to agree on a peace treaty with Austria . |
| 11 | They find out that they 'll be competing against three local councillors from Kent , one from each of the main political parties — everyone crosses their fingers that they wo n't be able to agree on an answer . |
| 12 | Within two weeks the participants were able to agree upon a draft plan . |
| 13 | Obviously some people make better interviewers than others , but with training no normal person who is reasonably able to carry on a conversation should find it impossible to undertake interviews . |
| 14 | He was able to carry on a conversation but was not fully in the game . |
| 15 | If the patient has good sitting balance , but not much standing balance , he may be able to sit in a hoist to be lifted into the bath . |
| 16 | This is a move which is to be welcomed , for with greater harmonisation of policies industry will be able to operate more efficiently through being able to plan within an environment of greater certainty , and will be more secure in the knowledge that its domestic and international operations are likely to receive compatible treatment from the respective authorities . |
| 17 | I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ? |
| 18 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 19 | Fortunately I was able to go to a rehabilitation and assessment centre for two weeks . |
| 20 | They like to be able to go to a show and to be able to see something that they do n't see in their everyday lives — you know , catching the bus to go work or coming home on the bus . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't suppose you were able to go for a run this morning in this weather ? ’ |
| 22 | I feel sorry for the Tories , they will only be able to go for a cruise around the world once instead of two or three times a year . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's hardly petty to want to be able to go for a walk along a public right of way . |
| 24 | Despite that success , the playwright had difficulty raising the money to bring the comedy into the West End , although the backer who came up with the all-important £1,000 needed to clinch the deal was able to retire to a South Sea island on his share of the profits . |
| 25 | What I would like is for us to be able to poke about a bit ; see if there are any angles in the Livesey case that might lead back to this girl . |
| 26 | After Deckard has ‘ retired ’ the remaining replicants , he recognises that he will not be able to continue as a bounty hunter . |
| 27 | Hunt was able to continue for a while but his car was severely damaged and the race was stopped . |
| 28 | A good deal of real embarrassment can be caused by simply giving an expensive item to a journalist who knew she would not be able to write about a product in any depth but expressed a wish to buy it . |
| 29 | But schools now inevitably become more tense about a failing teacher or a teacher with personal problems or problems of health who may not be able to concentrate on a pupil 's assessable skills . |
| 30 | The labour force is becoming more like the military with the use of a limited age range and the screening out of anyone with any kind of disability who might not be able to work at a pace and with the flexibility and precision which will maintain the return on the very large capital investment . |