Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you been able to gather together the whole of your father 's former collection ? |
| 2 | However , this is all due to change with the proposed introduction of a new chain ferry which will be able to carry twice the number of cars . |
| 3 | He is then able to see clearly the extent and depth of his wounds . |
| 4 | Each subject was able to adjust both the height and the angle of a toilet seat by remote control . |
| 5 | The committee had not been able to establish clearly the cost of nuclear power but agreed that it was at least 2@1/2 times the cost estimated before privatization was considered . |
| 6 | No research , not even that of Stillman Drake , the leading authority on Galileo , has been able to establish unequivocally the truth about the Scheiner claim . |
| 7 | The representation is , of course , implicit and we would not expect any child to be able to state explicitly the phrase structure rules and transformations generating the sentences of his language . |
| 8 | A corporatist model is neither confirmed nor falsified by evidence of the autonomy of state officials , but such accounts must be able to evaluate precisely the role of elected governing elites , and the importance of their struggle for office . |
| 9 | By formulating such objectives , ward staff are able to define precisely the general and the specific care required by the patients of their particular specialty . |
| 10 | The law reports , both of this country and of other jurisdictions , contain many statements emphasising the importance of the right , in a democratic society , to be able to criticise freely the conduct of affairs by public authorities . |
| 11 | I remember that morning vividly as I was so nervous and had n't been able to sleep much the night before . |
| 12 | Note here the contrast between closed- and open.loop control schemes ; with open-loop control the downcounter is able to record only the number of step commands sent to the motor and there is no guarantee that these steps have been executed . |
| 13 | She will be able to predict first-hand the impact of operating lists and other ward events . |
| 14 | So important was this and so adept the participants that the farmers-general and the Van Necks were able to persuade both the French and British governments to permit the continued shipment of British tobacco to France during the wars of 1744–8 and 1756–63 . |
| 15 | The DHAC had softened up the Unionists by publicising the housing situation in Derry and causing embarrassment for the Stormont government , but it was the Nationalists , as elected representatives , who were able to press home the advantage and force the concessions . |
| 16 | I should be able to consider seriously the idea of escape , and talk over problems of disguise and frontier crossings with other people for whom the war was not yet over . |
| 17 | That attachment is performed in the cytoplasm by a special protein , which is able to recognize both the glycine molecule , and the end of the tRNA molecule , and stick them together . |
| 18 | We must be able to judge nearer the time — Parliament must judge nearer the time — whether a single currency is in the interests of Britain . |
| 19 | I have to admit Mr Graham has a point here , but all I can say is that after one has been in the profession as long as one has , one is able to judge intuitively the depth of a man 's professionalism without having to see it under pressure . |
| 20 | I want here to begin to develop a conceptual framework that is able to assess critically the effect of the collision of two discourses — that of , race' and that of female sexuality . |
| 21 | The use of words and symbols to influence other people in predictable ways requires that the child must be able to represent mentally the relationship between the symbol ( word or gesture ) , the meaning for which it stands and the intended effect on the other person . |
| 22 | Even a good marriage may not be able to deliver quite the cocktail of intuition , sympathy , honesty , and insight . |
| 23 | Additionally , the project has also been able to localise successfully the disruption to those tasks in which the order of information has to be preserved . |
| 24 | Thus the computer model will go some way towards giving a fundamental understanding of the dynamics of the shaft itself without being able to explain fully the contribution made by the individual player . |
| 25 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |