Example sentences of "able [to-vb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the fifth day of mobilisation , Lieut-Colonel Deyns was able to report that the Field Ambulance was equipped according to scale , and ready to move . |
| 2 | This is why we are able to report that THE WORLD OF TWIST were involved in a horrifying car crash whilst travelling to a children 's TV Show this very weekend . |
| 3 | Commenting at a later stage on the commonly held expectation that London should lead developments in medicine , the Hampstead DGM was able to report that the Royal Free had ‘ in many ways been very successful in maintaining and consolidating its position ’ . |
| 4 | The Chairman was also able to report that the new Fast Afloat Boats ( FAB ) 3 and 4 are progressing on schedule . |
| 5 | By the time of the Fair Wages Committee of 1908 , T. E. Naylor of the LSC was able to report that the only " serious competition " between men and women compositors outside Scotland was in " Reading , possibly Dunstable , Wolverton , Bushey and Maidenhead " . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , we take some satisfaction from the knowledge that the involvement of the Board did break the logjam at the earlier stage of this project , and we 're able to report that the Shetland Island Council Charitable Trust has recognized the work of the done by the Board in its final settlement of its account with us . |
| 7 | There was almost unlimited space for Leicester to expand ; and in 1845 the commissioners were able to report that the town ‘ was spread over an unusual extent of ground in proportion to its population ’ . |
| 8 | Having carefully observed the moon through his newly invented telescope , Galileo was able to report that the moon was not a smooth sphere but that its surface abounded in mountains and craters . |
| 9 | To her surprise and relief he came up trumps , and the next time Stephen checked her progress she was able to report that the furnishings were to standard and on time . |
| 10 | Blake and Moulton at once gave chase , and were soon able to report that the Royalist squadron had been almost totally destroyed . |
| 11 | Dr Evans had made several visits as well , and was able to report that the damage to Faye 's eyes did not seem to be worsening . |
| 12 | I am also pleased to be able to report that the Home Office has recently agreed to run a technical field trial with links to two prisons to evaluate the feasibility of conducting video conferences with remand prisoners . |
| 13 | He was soon able to report that the British government was recovering from its " kind of extreme retrogression to nineteenth-century attitudes " . |
| 14 | Depending on the circumstances and the provisions of the partnership agreement : ( 1 ) he may be justified in treating the service of an invalid expulsion notice as an event which in turn gives him the right to serve a similar notice ; or ( 2 ) he may ( not unreasonably ) be able to contend that the service of an invalid notice is such breach of good faith as to justify his seeking a dissolution of the firm ; or ( 3 ) he may be tempted to sue for damages , though these would be particularly difficult to quantify and it does not seem that the service of an invalid notice would be held to amount to a repudiatory breach of the partnership agreementsee Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 277. ( e ) Waiver of the right to expel Once circumstances exist which might justify the exercise of a power to expel , the partners should not delay bringing matters to a head . |
| 15 | When the field-glasses were finally passed to her she was able to confirm that every roof and every wall of the monastery church and of the little community they had left only that morning had been thrown down by the violent commotion . |
| 16 | At the other extreme of the street , Mr Patel was able to confirm that a man had been working the previous day , and that morning , on the Ford Capri that was still there , still with the bonnet raised , still with a plastic bag on the battery . |
| 17 | I am pleased to be able to confirm that the setting up of Council Tax liabilities for individual properties is now complete within the computer software , with the exception of a few properties where the rebate entitlement has still not to be finally resolved . |
| 18 | Would he also be able to confirm that the only threat to the continuation of that expenditure is the election of philistines of the left , who are opposed to the scheme and whose tax policies would pulverise the attempts of those who support the arts ? |
| 19 | Nevertheless , in April 1982 the OMB was able to claim that the size of The Federal Register listing regulations had been reduced by a third . |
| 20 | Gorbachev , in his address , still felt able to claim that the establishment of a union of nations and nationalities enjoying equal rights was ‘ one of the greatest accomplishments of socialism ’ . |
| 21 | Only slowly did her heart-rate come down , and she was able to see that no lasting harm had been done . |
| 22 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 23 | We should now be able to see that an inconsistency between the demand for bank lending and the demand for the money stock created by that bank lending is reconciled by two simultaneous mechanisms . |
| 24 | Even the most myopic Teuton must have been able to see that the politely inquisitive Englishman being entrusted with these confidences had to be an Intelligence man . |
| 25 | Scrambling ashore , and scuffing their way inland through ankle-deep ash , the party were able to see that the centre of all the excitement was the small cone of Perboewetan , at the northern end of Krakatoa . |
| 26 | They would be able to see that the doctrine could provide criteria whereby they could settle for themselves their own problems , such for example , as that of differentiating between the prickings of conscience and the spiritual crushings of a guilt complex . |
| 27 | You will be able to see that the laws you love and cherish ( Coulomb 's , Biot-Savart 's , Snell 's , etc. ) all follow from our eqns ( 1.1 ) -(1.7) . |
| 28 | Now he can see a little , and when our first child was born and put into his arms , he was able to see that the boy had inherited his fine large black eyes . |
| 29 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
| 30 | The programme is thought to be less successful in Zimbabwe , since the denser vegetation means that poachers may not be able to see that the animal has no horn until they have already shot it . |