Example sentences of "[be] able [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're able to hold on to that for the duration of the talk and be able to understand them as concepts and therefore it helps to put over the ideas . |
| 2 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 3 | think there has to be a er family planning centres have to more on the street , I think family planning clinics have got the people there who are able to go out on the street . |
| 4 | The reason they have this versatility is that they are able to join up with no fewer than four other atoms at a time , to form chains or networks . |
| 5 | Unemployment may mean that people have more leisure time available but lack of money restricts the kind of activities they are able to participate in during their spare time . |
| 6 | The argument was on the semantics of how post-sixteen education is presently offered in Banbury , and whereas , of course , they had every right to use the opting out legislation as a governing body , it must be said that the possibility of success under those terms erm is somewhat untried , because of course legislation was specifically geared at Local Education Authorities that do not look after their schools , and thus schools are able to opt out of a badly run , inefficient Education Authority , and we 've seen that happen in many of the urban areas in the country , and indeed some schools have not opted for that . |
| 7 | I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures . |
| 8 | When snow many feet deep blankets the land and the lake is covered with ice , the beavers are able to swim out from their lodge beneath the ice , retrieve the green branches and feed on them throughout the winter . |
| 9 | Most modern faxes are Group III compliant ( see the Jargon Busters on page 56 ) and are able to print out at 200dpi , which is n't too far off laser printer quality . |
| 10 | There are , however , many other situations in atomic and nuclear physics where there is some kind of barrier that particles should not be able to penetrate on classical principles but that they are able to tunnel through on quantum-mechanical principles . |
| 11 | Through her interactions with the children , the teacher is engaged in a continual process of crafting and recrafting the environment , building on their existing collaborative resources , and gradually extending the range of collaboration which children choose and are able to engage in by themselves . |
| 12 | ‘ Criminals are able to listen in to our car and personal radios with them and that gives them an early warning of our approach . ’ |
| 13 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 14 | Misunderstandings can arise as a result of this , when , for example , teachers see children who are able to run about in the playground with confidence , but seem unable to discriminate printed letters in their reading books . |
| 15 | With this in mind , one must be concerned with how fans gain admission to the Rowdies group , how they are able to progress socially within the group , and with how they are able to graduate out of the group . |
| 16 | Like love , the more joy you are able to pass on to those around you , the more you will receive in return . |
| 17 | Education is one of the privileges that bureaucrats increasingly are able to pass on to their offspring , together with their important connections in the state apparatus , which Cliff maintains is used as their private property ( Cliff 1964 ) . |
| 18 | In this way those candidates who recognise that they are unsuitable are able to drop out of the process early on . |
| 19 | Students have to show that they understand what has been learned so deeply that they are able to look down on it and assess it critically for themselves . |
| 20 | By doing this the work of the council is expedited and the officers of the council are able to get on with the instructions of the committee without waiting for confirmation by the council of the decisions of the committee . |
| 21 | Even if no one is around who can confirm a particular incident , if you are able to come up with details of surroundings and personalities of which you had no conscious memory , and if these are later proved to have been accurate , there is no real reason to suppose that a significant event was simply a figment of an over-active imagination . |
| 22 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 23 | This power derives , not from any superior individual or institutional competence , but from the strategically important role which these interests have been able to mark out for themselves in American society . |
| 24 | It was kicked around like a football from family to family , none of whom seemed to have loved it or to have been able to hold on to it for long . |
| 25 | What we should remember , however , is that workers have not always had the same kinds of experiences I have just described and have , consequently , been able to hold on to a sense of political relatedness between themselves as individuals and groups vis-à-vis society and the industrial enterprises within it . |
| 26 | Because that would mean that he would have been able to hold on to his job . |
| 27 | In comparison to the way in which fraud , obfuscation and inanity have been able to hold out in other fields — from politics and religion to scholarship and law — it is an impressive record . |
| 28 | And is Janet , has Janet been able to go back to work yet ? |
| 29 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 30 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |