Example sentences of "able [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Martyn , churchwarden of Long Melford in Suffolk , for example , kept the reredos , organ , clocks , and bells of Holy Trinity Church in his own home , in the hope that his heirs would be able to restore them to the church sometime in the future . |
| 2 | Rather , while ageing is often experienced as a disruptive life event , some people find that they are able to accommodate themselves to the changes — both practical and emotional — in their lives . |
| 3 | If the Declaration of Rights gave the Tories the sort of legal assurances they wanted , to what extent were they able to accommodate themselves to the break in the hereditary succession ? |
| 4 | Such a statement is misleading , because it seems to imply that the Tories were Jacobites at heart ; in fact , most Tories were able to accommodate themselves to the break in the succession which had taken place in 1688 – 9 . |
| 5 | As we have already seen , Tories were largely able to accommodate themselves to the Revolution ; most could accept William at least as de facto ruler , and some , following Edmund Bohun , were even able to rationalise the events of 1688 – 9 in such a way as to conclude that William was also monarch de jure . |
| 6 | But even if we are able to accommodate ourselves to the fact that our parents were not altogether " good " from the child 's viewpoint , we may still retain the ideal in our minds . |
| 7 | He 's only groggy , not out , but you 're able to secure him to the bed with the other set of handcuffs and the leather straps from the same drawer the hood came from . |
| 8 | The surface of the brick was still gelid and adhesive , so that he was able to stick it to the side of a drum near the hull , separated from the fuel tanks only by a steel bulkhead . |
| 9 | The cement was freezing before we were able to apply it to the bricks . |
| 10 | Technical considerations are being completed , and I hope that we shall be able to put it to the House before long . |
| 11 | Schools were started in the monasteries , for Charles proclaimed that ‘ Men of God should not only live by the rule and dwell in holy conversation , but should devote themselves to literary meditations , each according to his ability , that they may be able to give themselves to the duty of teaching others . ’ |
| 12 | Whichever method you select you must be able to justify it to the company in order to recover your expenses . |
| 13 | Only in his own pieces ( all transcriptions of other composer 's works ) is he able to stretch himself to the outer limits of his technique . |
| 14 | Once we have landed on Mars we will be able to beam it to the galaxy , he said . |
| 15 | This being impossible , the next thing to be wished for is that , at every instant , seeing reason to believe as much , and not being able to satisfy himself to the contrary , he should conceive himself to be so " ( emphasis in original ) . |
| 16 | You may be able to keep us to the straight and narrow . |
| 17 | It was n't , however , until summer had faded that he could at last feel he was his own man again and was able to address himself to the present . |
| 18 | He returned to England on succeeding his father as second Baron Northwick in 1800 , and was able to devote himself to the formation of the collection for which Northwick Park became famous . |
| 19 | You will send all your senior managers for the entire week of the event , and dole out shorter visits to deserving underlings , either those with long service records or those who might be able to learn something to the company 's advantage . |
| 20 | Ideally each should be able to offer something to the others , but for this to happen an agenda has to be clarified and values made explicit . |
| 21 | At first , you may still have accidents as you may not be able to get her to the potty in time , but she 'll gradually learn to hold on longer . |
| 22 | He is surprisingly slow to begin talking , but a good walker , and we were able to take him to the canal where there were ducks , swans , horses and icy puddles to interest him , so that was fine . |
| 23 | Although judicial business was conducted in English and followed procedure alien to pre-British Sri Lanka , people were able to adapt themselves to the new institutions and the courts soon handled a very heavy criminal and civil load . |
| 24 | Although social classes change over time , they are able to reproduce themselves to the extent that they can maintain their distinctive position in the social structure within and across generations . |
| 25 | Once he hits on the right track he should be able to follow him to the place where he leaves the food and then watch who picks it up . |
| 26 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |