Example sentences of "able [to-vb] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electronic information explosion knows no frontiers ; we may soon be enveloped in a world-encompassing atmosphere of information messages and ‘ noise ’ of a variety and density not known before , able to plug in to one or a multiplicity of channels and capture information of a wide diversity of nature and origin , much of it junk . |
| 2 | It seems , then , that the average undertaker was little more than a speculative cabinet-maker and joiner who , either by direct contact with the metalworking trades , or via such funeral houses as Richard Green 's , was able to buy in at wholesale all that was required for a funeral . |
| 3 | The answer is that these deceptions have to fool all possible predators and while some may be able to tune in to one detail others may have a searching-image for something quite different . |
| 4 | ‘ My best friend Gillian had given birth to her baby Laura in another hospital nine months before , and had been able to stay in for ten days . |
| 5 | The place was open late and he was able to glance in through one of those cheap glittery curtains that screened the doorway from the street . |
| 6 | " Unless it 's bolted on the inside we ought to be able to get in with these , " he said . |
| 7 | I wanted to have that control in the studio , being able to step in at any moment . ’ |