Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when Sir Alfred enlisted the help of his sister , Jean Stanley ( wife of Louis ) was BRM able to proceed for the 1962 season . |
| 2 | Now , he does think that the one and the mind is present to every one of us , erm , but I also take it that erm he er thought that he himself , had been able to ascend to the one er four times in the course of his life and that he also thought that some of his students were of better contemplation than others and erm so he may also have thought as Plato did , that some people are more inclined towards philosophy than others . |
| 3 | For illustrative purposes , he uses the example of another similar manufacturer ( whose identity , he reports , he must keep secret ) who is able to conform to a one p.p.m zinc requirement . |
| 4 | People wore different clothes , shopped in privately-owned shops and were able to talk with the thousands of foreigners living , working in or touring China . |
| 5 | I would n't be able to deal with a twenty-four year-old A&R man . |
| 6 | At this point Sally also appeared at the door and was able to intervene between the two bristling males . |
| 7 | That 's the sort of issue Chair , that we shall be able to address on the twenty seventh . |
| 8 | Some of the larger issuers have simultaneous ECP and SCP programmes , being easily able to switch between the two markets in order to take advantage of perceived arbitrage opportunities and with the ECP programme providing a " benchmark " interest rate for the SCP programme . |
| 9 | Taylor expects Arsenal captain Tony Adams to be able to battle through the two matches , although he has confirmed that he will miss the US Cup matches which follow , like team-mate David Seaman , to undergo a summer hernia operation . |
| 10 | The UV cross-linking experiments demonstrated that at least two factors are able to bind to the 80 bp fragment with molecular weights of approximately 90,000 and 30,000 daltons . |
| 11 | She never thought that she would look at emptiness and not immediately be able to think of a hundred ways of filling it . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's no one of any consequence in London at the moment , ’ she told him , ‘ but you wo n't be able to move for the millions of nobodies going to look at the Tower . ’ |
| 13 | Existing NCR 3450 and 3550 server users will be able to upgrade from the 80486 via a board swap . |