Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 2 | In the control sample the picture was slightly different ; of the 13 who stated a preference at first interview for home care and whom we were able to interview again one year later , six stated an unequivocal preference for home care , five a preference for home care but a recognition of the necessity for , or a competing preference for , institutional care , and two a clear preference for institutional care . |
| 3 | You can say that optical fibre is able to carry only one TV channel whereas a coaxial cable can carry up to 30 . |
| 4 | I do hope that I am able to report thus next month . |
| 5 | I enjoy playing football and hockey especially but I am able to enjoy nearly any sport . |
| 6 | On April 29 , 1990 , after two days and two nights of filibustering by Communists , Rocard forced through a guillotine measure , transforming the Renault motor company from a régie ( which worked for the " exclusive interest of the nation " , was not subject to the same financial controls as ordinary companies , did not until 1970 have any share capital , was able to implement more progressive wage and labour policies , and remained ultimately under Ministry of Industry control ) into an ordinary public limited company . |
| 7 | ‘ Staff are only able to provide very basic care and their ability to treat seriously ill and malnourished children is severely limited , ’ the Belfast doctor added . |
| 8 | He wants to tell them that he may not be able to come home this summer . |
| 9 | In spite of the fact that many books and articles have been published on such well known masters as Malevich , Kandinsky , Tatlin , Larionov , Goncharova and others , the authors have been able to find genuinely new material about the Russian Avant-garde . |
| 10 | The VEC relented but , with such short notice , the DUC was able to obtain only one speaker , Dr Robert Blackith , a zoologist from Trinity College , Dublin who was at that stage a veteran anti-nuclear speaker and campaigner . |
| 11 | However , I was able to obtain fairly detailed information on the situation in 1968 , when the subvention had to be increased substantially . |
| 12 | And I hope that members appreciate as I say , the range and scale of work , which is that , you will also have seen that they 've been able to open now one evening a week , and for a very small service with a budget of about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds , erm they are doing sterling work . |
| 13 | You will at least be able to group together those substitution items which have the same tone patterns , and that will give you material to practise . |
| 14 | From the age of six onward , Vologsky had been able to apply almost total recall to figures of any sort . |
| 15 | True , the Liberal Nationals were becoming indistinguishable from the Conservatives , while National Labour was too small to be able to exert very much influence upon the massed ranks of Conservatives , although the prestige of the Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald , gave it — as Marquand shows — an influence far greater than its mere numbers would have warranted . |
| 16 | The strength of their personalities partially explains the fact that Charles III was able to exert more effective authority than any ruler of Spain for generations , and that the powers of Maria Theresa were greater than those wielded by any of her predecessors . |
| 17 | Peasants on crown lands and state peasants , liberated by the Statutes of 1863 and 1866 on broadly similar terms to those of private serfs , were able to buy rather more land on better terms . |
| 18 | One essential ingredient of organising your work is to be able to put aside enough time in the day for thought and reflection . |
| 19 | The program supports HP LaserJets , DeskJets , Canon BubbleJets , Epson and IBM dot matrix or any printer compatible with these , so you should be able to use almost any printer on the market . |
| 20 | Several subjects reported that they felt that they would be able to give far more information if they were permitted to recall the junctions in the order in which they had been driven . |
| 21 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 22 | She showed that , tissue weight for tissue weight , a dog-whelk with an elongated shell was able to retain far more water within its shell than could a squat one . |
| 23 | And whether you made mistakes or did well , you will be able to do better next time . |
| 24 | More importantly , they were able to offset totally any child-minding costs they incurred while going out to work . |
| 25 | However , he was able to clear away this misconception in his sermon on the following Sunday . |
| 26 | Both of these systems were able to understand relatively unconstrained language for these very narrow domains . |
| 27 | If a child 's vision report gives a figure of distance vision as 6/24 and near vision as N8 with corrective glasses , this would indicate that the pupil should be able to read quite small print , but has a lowered visual acuity in terms of distance vision . |
| 28 | It is therefore a problem for the homoeopathic practitioner to learn these pictures , many of which are somewhat similar , sufficiently well to be able to match accurately each patient with the correct remedy . |
| 29 | It should be borne in mind however that this project has been able to consider only short-run cost-effectiveness . |
| 30 | If this remains true today , it is probably because the House does not have the same pressures placed on its time as the Court of Appeal and is able to devote as much time as it wishes to oral argument . |