Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 2 | You 'll be able to borrow it from the office downstairs and view it in the library . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She could have wished it otherwise — then she might have been able to lose herself in the crowd . |
| 5 | She wished that she had been able to spot him in the crowd . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I fully appreciate and feel the force of the narrowness of the distinctions which are taken between what is admissible and what is not admissible , but the exception presently proposed is so extensive that I do not feel able to support it in the present state of our knowledge of its practical results in this jurisdiction . |
| 12 | Where he did have strong personal views , he proved less willing or less able to implement them over the opposition of others . |
| 13 | If it is not , and the root ball crumbles , you are not going to be able to plant it in the ground without disturbing the roots . |
| 14 | The stairs were cold and draughty and the light was n't good , but she 'd placed herself so that the agency 's receptionist would be able to see her through the glass-panelled door if she should happen to glance up . |
| 15 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 16 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 17 | With the binoculars that they carried , they must have been able to see her from the moment that she set out . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're too short , Ryan wo n't be able to see you above the fence unless you do . ’ |
| 19 | I have never been able to see it with the naked eye ( as some observers claim to have done ) , but it is not hard to find with × 7 , and it is easy with × 8.5 . |
| 20 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |
| 21 | I would n't be able to see it in the . |
| 22 | Going along the road , er on the A Nineteen , from the north towards er the village er if one assumed that there were to be some development on site D forty , would you be able to see it from the road ? |
| 23 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 24 | Your local Age Concern group may be able to inform you of the help available in the area to assist you with your fuel or heating problem . |
| 25 | Blind , deaf , but able to smell ; able to find them by the food smell , even in this raging , wind-swept , rain-driven night … |
| 26 | Well , it 's very kind of you , but I 'm sure I 'll be able to find it in the car . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ That would give him more confidence and he would be able to establish himself in the side . ’ |
| 29 | well yes and therefore they wanted the appeal procedure , erm to make it fair I 'm not trying to put words in your mouth but that , term , to eradicate the possibility that someone could be able to exclude it from the market unjustifiably |
| 30 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |