Example sentences of "able [to-vb] of the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And for e for emplo for employment officers you would have induction , you would have interviewing skills , and you would say you know , we would also we 'd be able to see of the training records , what interviewing courses
2 His reference to faith may explain how it is that he is able to conceive of the notion of absolute Truth which he calls God .
3 The main result that emerges from such an existential self-analysis is that man owes his understanding of the meaning of being to the fact that he exists in an object-transcending manner , and is therefore able to conceive of the possibility of nothingness , i.e. of the world not existing at all .
4 You might put it this way : We are human beings , not because we have souls but because we are able to conceive of the possibility that we might have souls .
5 In the same way we are not able to talk of the volume of agricultural yields and the excess per capita from the farms .
6 Unfortunately , I have been unable to identify the makers from what you have been able to decipher of the wording on the back .
7 Thus , the child 's language is not sampled directly but , as it were , by proxy in terms of what the teacher or therapist is able to recall of the child 's performance under everyday conditions .
8 The area office plays a prominent part in what a field officer is able to learn of the job .
9 I wanted it to be over , to return to the innocence and freedom of life before the kidnap , for John to be safe , for us all to know some kind of certainty instead of this constant doubt and anxiety , to be able to think of the future again .
10 Councillor Ronnie Round , chairman of economic development and planning said : ‘ We will be able to dispose of the land at the Lathom Wing and thus finance improvements for the school with no extra cost to the school or the council . ’
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