Example sentences of "able [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is clear from the above that higher headquarters placed great emphasis on L Detachment remaining essential fly as a parachute unit , and this was in keeping with Stirling 's doctrine that his men should be able to arrive at a target by whatever means were most suitable . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | The higher order of passenger was able to arrive at the station shortly before the departure of the train and proceed directly to accommodation on it . |
| 34 | You obviously have to work it out in some way , but you seem able to arrive at the answer almost instantly . |
| 35 | Comedian : able to laugh at the tension and blow it away . |
| 36 | Since daylight was flooding into the world , I was able to stay at a distance and keep him in sight . |
| 37 | You have to agree to keep up payments for ten years and normally will not be able to get at the cash in the meantime . |
| 38 | I would say that they ought to be able to spend at a level which is within the S S As that have been given both for the county and for the districts , and therefore we should be below the three hundred and seventy eight . |
| 39 | ‘ They leave you in a certain mood , which you might not be able to explain at the time , but it gets under your skin . ’ |
| 40 | The most you may be able to say at the end of it is that you ‘ gained understanding ’ ; to some of us that may be unsatisfactorily intangible , while to others it may be of profound significance . |
| 41 | Apparently , in the year 2000 only five collieries would be able to produce at a cost of 130p per gigajoule . |
| 42 | MOTORISTS will soon be able to tell at a glance whether it is cheaper to buy their next car abroad . |