Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private borrowing is likely to rise by the same amount and may rise by even more if the privatised company is able to borrow freely from the market rather than relying on the government . |
| 2 | In the second group , there were those countries , like Kenya , who had never been able to borrow much from the banks . |
| 3 | I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty , and my arm hurt like hell . |
| 4 | If she could only gain her room unnoticed , she would be able to sit quietly in the rocking chair with a book and — |
| 5 | The KH-11s may be able to transmit directly to the allies ' command centre in Saudi Arabia . |
| 6 | ‘ The documents show that the companies will be able to go straight to the director general of water services for extra price increases , ’ he told the conference . |
| 7 | Cos he might be able to go straight to the ba , the |
| 8 | It has been previously shown that linear plasmids bearing Tetrahymena telomeric sequences are able to replicate autonomously in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina ( 1 ) . |
| 9 | circular DNA molecules able to replicate independently of the chromosome in microorganisms . |
| 10 | Crustaceans are able to amble freely among the anemone 's tentacles because their hard exoskeletons protect them from stings from the nematocysts . |
| 11 | Goods , services , people , businesses and capital should be able to circulate freely throughout the whole Community , unobstructed by national restrictions as easily , say , from Greece to Denmark as from York to Southampton . |
| 12 | Yet party leaders did not want direct control , in case TANU was banned : they wanted the paper to be able to continue even in the event of this happening . |
| 13 | But on Venus , because of its much more massive atmosphere the bending is more marked and we are able to see well beyond the horizon , particularly because the lower atmosphere of Venus is usually very clear . |
| 14 | It 's not a hard walk up the spur that leads to the summit , and the lust to be able to see far into the rough bounds of Knoydart hiding behind Sgurr Thuilm will motivate even the most indolent hiker . |
| 15 | By raising and lowering the handle it is possible to follow the contours of the shape , and though this can also be said of a normal chisel , I enjoyed being able to concentrate solely on the chisel edge , as if whittling . |
| 16 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 17 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I 'll be able to come home in the evenings and you can teach me the things I need to know , ’ said Endill . |
| 19 | Women would increasingly in the future be recruited into the new semi-skilled jobs , often at piece rates , so that employers were able to benefit both from the job 's lack of a craft tradition behind it , and from a work-force trained from childhood to regard anything they did as unskilled . |
| 20 | I was able to benefit greatly from the work already completed by this group and by the advice and encouragement which they provided . |
| 21 | Nursing care based upon the nursing process is being widely implemented in the United Kingdom , and one of the main skills that nurses need to develop is the ability to be able to communicate effectively with the patient and his family , in order to be able to define the patient 's problems . |
| 22 | You will need to be methodical and able to communicate effectively with the ability to operate largely unsupervised . |
| 23 | For most of our students , the main objective is to be able to communicate confidently in the language of their choice , so practice in listening and speaking are our first priorities . |
| 24 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
| 25 | After a welcome and introductory talk by Sylvia Townson , the theatre 's public relations officer , visitors were able to wander all over the Edwardian building with most grabbing the chance to stand behind the footlights for a thespians ' eye view of the ornate auditorium . |
| 26 | The simplest one is that the world would be a better place if people were better able to talk coherently about the many language problems which arise in contemporary society . |
| 27 | I wo n't be able to talk much in the workshop , what with everyone around and all those cherry trees to fix , but I 'll ask her out after , for a coffee or something . |
| 28 | The Meiji period ( 1868–1912 ) began with the surrender of feudal fiefs to the Emperor ; ‘ thus the country will be able to rank equally with the other nations of the world ’ , concluded the memorial of the lords who initiated this step . |
| 29 | With this in mind , one must be concerned with how fans gain admission to the Rowdies group , how they are able to progress socially within the group , and with how they are able to graduate out of the group . |
| 30 | We therefore dispute van Maanen 's view that researchers on the police have to be male ( 1981 : 480 ) , in order to be able to participate fully in the masculine occupational and leisure culture of the police . |