Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished that she had been able to spot him in the crowd . |
| 2 | I fully appreciate and feel the force of the narrowness of the distinctions which are taken between what is admissible and what is not admissible , but the exception presently proposed is so extensive that I do not feel able to support it in the present state of our knowledge of its practical results in this jurisdiction . |
| 3 | If it is not , and the root ball crumbles , you are not going to be able to plant it in the ground without disturbing the roots . |
| 4 | I would n't be able to see it in the . |
| 5 | Well , it 's very kind of you , but I 'm sure I 'll be able to find it in the car . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | After ten he was hardly able to look me in the ear . |
| 8 | But if you see the top man around the business you are able to look him in the eye and tell whether you can trust him or not . |
| 9 | It was out in the open now and she was able to look him in the face again , all pretence finished . |
| 10 | The skill of the marketing manager therefore lies in understanding how the four categories of the Marketing Mix interact , and in being able to combine them in the most cost-effective manner such that the company 's marketing objectives are satisfactorily achieved . |
| 11 | Hereford beef is best and now the consumer will be able to identify it in the shops . |
| 12 | Trapped in the revolving world of afternoon TV , this is a man who would have quite happily recorded the LP from the comfort of his bed had they been able to fit it in the studio . |
| 13 | Your GP may be able to point you in the right direction , and it 's worth finding out if the psychology department of your local hospital takes referrals . |
| 14 | Your dealer should be able to point you in the right direction . |
| 15 | The male did not bother her at all after spawning , so I was able to leave her in the Mbuna colony until she was ‘ near term ’ — and all the fry were this time normal — all 120+ of them . |
| 16 | She says ; It is very important to have a memory of the time when people were here and to be able to record it in the hospital is very important . |
| 17 | You will then be able to soak them in the medicated solution for maximum effectiveness . |
| 18 | Apart from the outstanding quality and rarity of many of the items , much of their fascination for scholars has lain in being able to document them in the family 's ancient inventories . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 21 | Will you be able to get them in the morning ? ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We were also delighted that so many employees and their families were able to join us in the evening after the opening ceremony to look around the plant for the first time . |
| 24 | It hoped that the involvement of neutral states like Austria , Sweden and Switzerland — all of whom obviously did not see membership as compromising their neutrality — would persuade the Soviet Union that the new association was sufficiently politically innocuous for Finland to be able to join it in the not too distant future . |
| 25 | But now that this has happened I 'll never be able to join you in the convent . |