Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian , 49 , told friends : ‘ It may sound sloppy but the two of us will be able to sit down at home and have a jolly good cuddle listening to this . ’ |
| 2 | What we 're also talking about , is elderly people being able to go out at night and not be too frightened to go out at night . |
| 3 | Perhaps he suggests that , although bats ' eyes are apparently weak , nevertheless , in some way that is not understood , they are able to see efficiently at night by use of their eyes . |
| 4 | There are , of course , compensating advantages for urban-fringe farmers — proximity to markets and consumers , the possibility of grafting on lucrative recreational facilities for horse-riding , fishing , shooting , and so on , and not least the prospect of being able to sell out at development value . |
| 5 | The idea behind this particular add-on is to provide the user with the feel of really being able to shoot back at screen . |
| 6 | Who knows , maybe it will appear with time , and by the end of the year we will be able to look back at Figure 2 and say that this was one of the first proofs of the existence of the W particle ? |
| 7 | Fifthly , to introduce something not so far mentioned , the objection may include the idea that if our causal thought did rest on the given conception of a causal circumstance , we should be able to do well at prediction better than in fact we do . |
| 8 | Always before she had worked free , able to move about at will . |