Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ceauşescu was not able to whip up any evidence of genuine enthusiasm for his destruction of churches . |
| 2 | ‘ The sale means we shall be able to carry out essential work on our original buildings which form the centrepiece of the college and are part of the national heritage . ’ |
| 3 | And that is why we 're asking for officers to form a report on whether or not a small building maintenance team should be set up to be able to carry out that work . |
| 4 | Common fears are : 1 not understanding or not being able to carry out technical procedures . |
| 5 | Most vets are able to carry out humane destruction either at the surgery or at your home . |
| 6 | Most insects are not powerful enough fliers to be able to carry out seasonal return migrations ; but a few can . |
| 7 | Even pupils as young as 6 have been able to carry out this exercise . |
| 8 | Only a handful of surgeons are able to carry out this procedure , but Mr Damato has done 300 such operations probably the largest total worldwide . |
| 9 | ‘ It is particularly pleasing that Councillor Thorne will be able to carry out this duty ’ said Jackie Cope , the Museum 's Curator , ‘ he is very much associated with tourism issues and the regeneration of Keighley as a whole . ’ |
| 10 | We are able to carry out proactive searches for clients . |
| 11 | There was no general ruling on what type of person was best able to carry out these tasks but the two most common groups were : ( a ) the older wife who had a great deal of experience , and ( b ) the young wife who had made a determined effort to acquire as much knowledge and skill as possible . |
| 12 | Buxton … says police should be able to carry out random breath tests . |
| 13 | With the help of recipe maker you will be able to plan out each meal for an entire week and in just minutes have a complete shopping list needed to make those meals . |
| 14 | Basaltic magmas are normally expelled at the surface in a very hot and fluid state , and the resulting lavas are often able to flow over considerable distances . |
| 15 | Expectations that hospitals would be able to work up detailed costings had been revised . |
| 16 | Concentrate instead on studying your own behaviour , your interactions with your environment ; by working on external factors in this way you will be able to work out practical strategies to succeed , and strong will-power will appear to come about automatically without you having to work on it directly . |
| 17 | He carried an axe in order to be able to smash down illegal obstacles , but there is no mention of him having to use it in 1983 . |
| 18 | In 1917 a mere fifty-three households had been able to sell off excess grain . |
| 19 | If this were the case , most people , whose call is to marriage , would be able to pick up one message and one message only from celibates . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's because they were able to pick up extra tickets unused by other county boards . ’ |
| 21 | We tested the Super Dustbuster ( HC431 ) , which is easy to handle , has an additional power boost , and is designed specifically to clean up after jobs such as wood planing and sanding , as well as being able to pick up broken glass or small nails . |
| 22 | Roosevelt telegraphed again that British insistence on traffic only between certain points was not realistic , and that the economic viability of services depended on being able to pick up intermediate traffic . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure you 'll be able to pick up some ideas . ’ |
| 24 | Myrdal was able to pick up this anxiety from unstructured conversations he held with individual Americans . |
| 25 | The US will , however , be able to pick up thematic-mapper information with a ground station at White Sands , New Mexico , to which data will be routed via the US 's new tracking and data relay satellites . |
| 26 | to do it and I think even , looking at the competencies of careers officers you 'd probably be able to pick out broad headings . |
| 27 | When a story is ready to go out the executive will be able to pick out those categories which are relevant to the material and then go through these sections to handpick those journalists who will really be able to use material . |
| 28 | Not only were they able to pick out more surface counters and make more judgments but these were different in kind . |
| 29 | He also claims that a dispute between the two countries in 1988–89 over a new Japanese fighter plane , the FSX , arose because America was afraid it would be too good and might be able to shoot down American aircraft . |
| 30 | I was able to clean off excess acrylic from the brush hair readily , using first a cold rinse of water , followed by warm water and a little soap as necessary . |