Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [art] next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One more duty I was able to perform the next day . |
| 2 | After that she felt better able to tackle the next course of chicken and chips . |
| 3 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 4 | While Mr Major has signalled that he wants to leave the choice up to backbenchers , he is understood to favour the new Speaker coming from the Tory ranks , dashing Labour hopes that they might be able to nominate the next occupant of the Speaker 's chair . |
| 5 | Congress might just be able to form the next government alone ; if not , it would try to split bits off other parties . |
| 6 | If it fails , the world 's biggest democracy will be even less able to survive the next assassin 's blow . |
| 7 | I am sure that the Secretary of State will be able to explain the next point to me , because it is so simple . |
| 8 | Where schools , aided by PNP resourcing , had lifted their professional climate and decision-making processes out of the slough of low morale , crisis management and paternalism , they were able to confront the next wave of change constructively and with confidence , having the will , expertise and procedures to tackle the very difficult questions about curriculum and assessment which the 1988 Act provoked . |