Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 4 not being able to cope in an emergency , e.g. a haemorrhage or cardiac arrest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 7 | For all of us , to be able to talk in an atmosphere of trust and support is often all that is needed . |
| 8 | My hon. and learned Friend was able to apply for an Adjournment debate . |
| 9 | Moreover , it suggested that foster parents who had had the care of a child for five years or more should be able to apply for an adoption order without risk of removal by parents before a hearing . |
| 10 | Mm well if he finds out where you are , or even if he visits relatives and starts making threats saying he 's gon na get you or he 's er assault you , or he 's gon na hurt the child , anything like that , then er the first thing obviously is to contact the police to warn him off and secondly contact me , cos we 'll then be able to apply for an injunction to stop him coming anywhere near you . |
| 11 | Inevitably , over such a long period , I became less institutionalized , more able to function as an individual in relation to belief and action and not merely accept the organization 's definition of things ; and this is a profoundly un-police like state of affairs ! |
| 12 | The baby is able to walk after an hour and to keep up with the herd when it is on the move , but it is nonetheless very unsteady on its feet and needs continual help . |
| 13 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 14 | At the same time , the rate at which information is processed by the brain increases dramatically , making us better able to deal with an emergency . |
| 15 | In February , 1986 he described it as Russia 's " bleeding wound " and as he consolidated his position in the Politburo was able to press for an end to the conflict . |
| 16 | They were sturdy beggars , Hugh told them , a sort of people rarely found in the forest , vermin whom the verderers would have been well able to control without an expedition had it not been for the outlaws . |
| 17 | Now look at our country , we are absolutely by we want more , we want fewer regulations , we want to be able to live on an island , without being told what to do , by the politicians , and I support the view that politicians ought to stop telling individuals what to do . |
| 18 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 19 | A keen rider of ‘ simple habits ’ , he was able to withdraw to an idyll of country life on the thousand-acre estate he had bought in Sussex . |
| 20 | Unfortunately they are not all able to survive in an aquarium and some of the most colourful varieties are the most delicate . |
| 21 | The high sequence homology of Oct-11 to Oct-1 and Oct-2 in the POU domain strongly suggested that Oct-11 would be able to bind to an octamer motif . |
| 22 | This demonstrated that both PA-Oct-11 and PA-Oct-2 were able to bind to an octamer motif in vitro and that this binding was competed by an excess of unlabelled probe DNA . |
| 23 | ‘ But I have n't been able to think of an excuse for getting in touch with her , ’ she admitted . |
| 24 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 25 | Where an innocent purchaser is able to rely upon an estoppel , property in the goods passes to him in the normal way , i.e. as if his seller himself has good title to give . |