Example sentences of "able [to-vb] to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Ruth , she 's been led to one who was able to restore to her all that Elimelech had lost when he left Bethlehem . |
| 2 | The youth … is capable of having principles ; his religious and moral ideas can be cultivated , and he is able to attend to his own refinement . |
| 3 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 4 | A person born severely disabled will need a great deal of help in overcoming the effects of the disability , but they will possibly be able to adjust to it better than the person who has enjoyed perfect health and led a full , normal life and is suddenly injured or crippled by disease . |
| 5 | It was wonderful to be able to listen to her favourite song with impunity , extraordinary that it should still have the power to move her , but not to tears . |
| 6 | They duly unveiled the initiative last week , but the only name they were able to add to their own was that of Sun Microsystems Computer Corp . |
| 7 | I am able to say to my right hon. Friend that I raised that matter with President Yeltsin very forcibly indeed . |
| 8 | But now she will be able to return to her outspoken , opinionated self . |
| 9 | Most sufferers are able to return to their own homes and employment after the completion of four or five weeks of residential treatment . |
| 10 | In September 1944 he was able to return to his academic duties , but soon after the war ended he was stricken by chronic illness and did relatively little research thereafter . |
| 11 | However , the patient may be able to return to his own job , when he is sufficiently recovered . |
| 12 | ‘ It seems that you would need a vessel such as that in which you came , before you would be able to return to your own world . |
| 13 | The civil servants ensured that our drafts were the ones that eventually went into the Statutes , so we were able to return to our second Report . |
| 14 | I will be able to prove to my own satisfaction that you are lying , and we will have an unhappy business relationship . |