Example sentences of "able [to-vb] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Evans had made several visits as well , and was able to report that the damage to Faye 's eyes did not seem to be worsening . |
| 2 | Having carefully observed the moon through his newly invented telescope , Galileo was able to report that the moon was not a smooth sphere but that its surface abounded in mountains and craters . |
| 3 | I am also pleased to be able to report that the Home Office has recently agreed to run a technical field trial with links to two prisons to evaluate the feasibility of conducting video conferences with remand prisoners . |
| 4 | On the fifth day of mobilisation , Lieut-Colonel Deyns was able to report that the Field Ambulance was equipped according to scale , and ready to move . |
| 5 | There was almost unlimited space for Leicester to expand ; and in 1845 the commissioners were able to report that the town ‘ was spread over an unusual extent of ground in proportion to its population ’ . |
| 6 | This is why we are able to report that THE WORLD OF TWIST were involved in a horrifying car crash whilst travelling to a children 's TV Show this very weekend . |
| 7 | Depending on the circumstances and the provisions of the partnership agreement : ( 1 ) he may be justified in treating the service of an invalid expulsion notice as an event which in turn gives him the right to serve a similar notice ; or ( 2 ) he may ( not unreasonably ) be able to contend that the service of an invalid notice is such breach of good faith as to justify his seeking a dissolution of the firm ; or ( 3 ) he may be tempted to sue for damages , though these would be particularly difficult to quantify and it does not seem that the service of an invalid notice would be held to amount to a repudiatory breach of the partnership agreementsee Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 277. ( e ) Waiver of the right to expel Once circumstances exist which might justify the exercise of a power to expel , the partners should not delay bringing matters to a head . |
| 8 | When the field-glasses were finally passed to her she was able to confirm that every roof and every wall of the monastery church and of the little community they had left only that morning had been thrown down by the violent commotion . |
| 9 | At the other extreme of the street , Mr Patel was able to confirm that a man had been working the previous day , and that morning , on the Ford Capri that was still there , still with the bonnet raised , still with a plastic bag on the battery . |
| 10 | I am pleased to be able to confirm that the setting up of Council Tax liabilities for individual properties is now complete within the computer software , with the exception of a few properties where the rebate entitlement has still not to be finally resolved . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , in April 1982 the OMB was able to claim that the size of The Federal Register listing regulations had been reduced by a third . |
| 12 | Gorbachev , in his address , still felt able to claim that the establishment of a union of nations and nationalities enjoying equal rights was ‘ one of the greatest accomplishments of socialism ’ . |
| 13 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 14 | We should now be able to see that an inconsistency between the demand for bank lending and the demand for the money stock created by that bank lending is reconciled by two simultaneous mechanisms . |
| 15 | Now he can see a little , and when our first child was born and put into his arms , he was able to see that the boy had inherited his fine large black eyes . |
| 16 | They would be able to see that the doctrine could provide criteria whereby they could settle for themselves their own problems , such for example , as that of differentiating between the prickings of conscience and the spiritual crushings of a guilt complex . |
| 17 | Scrambling ashore , and scuffing their way inland through ankle-deep ash , the party were able to see that the centre of all the excitement was the small cone of Perboewetan , at the northern end of Krakatoa . |
| 18 | The programme is thought to be less successful in Zimbabwe , since the denser vegetation means that poachers may not be able to see that the animal has no horn until they have already shot it . |
| 19 | Customers must be able to know that a garment with the label ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was made of 100 per cent natural fibres . |
| 20 | If the victim were a masochist or if the defendant and the victim were involved in sado-masochism , will the prosecution be able to establish that the assault was committed with the intention of having sexual intercourse , assuming that the requisite intent is ‘ purposive and not foresightful ’ as Dr. Woods suggests . |
| 21 | By 1914 , Maurice Woods was able to announce that the committee had completed its immediate programme in every field but one and had therefore embarked on several secondary projects . |
| 22 | The jurist is therefore able to suggest that the testator intended those sums also to be released . |
| 23 | Whereas by looking at these exceptions we are able to perceive that the pattern itself is complex and produced by multiple factors . |
| 24 | A decade or three back , when most of us could visit most countries without a visa , there was little expectation that this would prove a high water mark and that restrictions would steadily increase , but we may not be able to assume that the freedom to dial direct to distant countries will continue to increase : Egypt has cut direct-dial telephone links with Pakistan , Afghanistan , Iraq , Sudan and Iran to make it harder for Moslem militant leaders in exile to communicate with groups at home and organise terrorist attacks , the Al-Akhbar newspaper reports ; it is still possible to call via an operator . |
| 25 | It is a great pleasure to be able to record that the contract for the construction of Phase 2 of the Causewayside Building was let in March 1991 . |
| 26 | By 1987 Wilmink was able to conclude that the Act ‘ has had a stimulating effect on the development of plans for the construction of bicycle tracks ’ and that ‘ attention to bicycle facilities in all stages of planning , design and maintenance of the infrastructure has become common practice . ’ |
| 27 | Thus Protagon was able to conclude that the performance of the racket related to adjustment of the string tension is 11 times more than its performance related to the change in the stiffness of the frame . |
| 28 | From the fact that a click ( as opposed to a bang , for example ) is a soft , unresonant ( though abrupt ) noise , we are able to conclude that the door was shut without great force . |
| 29 | Where the court is able to conclude that the wife 's ‘ implied consent to marital intercourse ’ has been formally revoked , non-consensual intercourse by the husband amounts to rape . |
| 30 | By examining the costs , prices , and profits of the two firms they were able to conclude that the outcome of the conduct of the firms , however that conduct may be described , was against the public interest or , in economic terms , highly distortive of economic efficiency . |