Example sentences of "able [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system should be able to cope at all times with the workload resulting from continuous operation of seven dedicated user terminals , and occasional use of two user terminals for simple enquiries and for examining portions of text . |
| 2 | The important thing is that you 'll be more confident and able to cope at , say , 21 than you were at 16 . |
| 3 | At each stage of Tranmere 's rise up the Football League these past years you have asked the question : ‘ Will Steve Mungall be able to cope at this level ? ’ |
| 4 | Individuals believe that they are able to perform at the desired level ( effort performance outcome ) . |
| 5 | The first company to build a computer able to perform at 100 million Flops per second ( 100 megaFlops ) , was Cray Research in 1975 . |
| 6 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've got a lady at the moment who was able to paint at one time , quite successfully . |
| 8 | Only a small percentage of black children were able to remain at school beyond primary level . |
| 9 | The decision means the children will remain physically close to the queen and Princess Beatrice will be able to remain at the same school . |
| 10 | Their father was one of the first beneficiaries , and the whole family was able to gather at his 100th birthday party . |
| 11 | Mr Fallon said many disabled people wrote to him concerned that they would not be able to shop at convenient times . |
| 12 | Early that summer the new curate took up his duties , and Father McGiff at last was able to sit at his desk of an evening and compose himself for his planned period of meditation . |
| 13 | Not for nothing had she made all those journeys with her employers — she now showed herself to have a familiarity with timetables quite out of the ordinary and was able to spot at once where a connection could be made . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared . |
| 15 | A defence spokesman said : ‘ We are glad to be able to confirm at the request of the United States that the UK will participate in the operation . ’ |
| 16 | Gerald became so successful in farming and property that he was able to retire at the age of forty . |
| 17 | Indeed they were given a meal , more substantial than any they had been able to enjoy at Berwick for a while , before they set off again . |
| 18 | However , the organizational advantages of being able to sample at a regular interval are so considerable that such anxieties are often set aside . |
| 19 | She wondered how long she would be able to continue at her present pace . |
| 20 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 21 | They were able to see at first hand the handling procedures and planning involved in stowing their goods safely for transport to Europe , as well as being able to sample some of the other delights that Germany is renowned for ; schnapps and Pils . |
| 22 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 23 | I see , so so a way of seeing stars that you otherwise would not be able to see at all . |
| 24 | And as they walked around the 230 acre farm , all of it in the extended Less Favoured Areas , they were able to see at first hand why Hume Stewart-Moore and his son Michael were so successful . |
| 25 | In November he was able to lecture at Central Hall , Westminster , on " The Three Voices of Poetry " — in the recording of that address , his clipped and precise speech , almost professorial in character , can be heard — but it was to be his last major engagement for many months . |
| 26 | To say this is to adopt a quasi-evolutionary view , close to Minsky 's , not in terms of debugging and repair , but in terms of attention and processing load : to be able to concentrate on everything is not to be able to concentrate at all . |
| 27 | Harry had Mossop drop him off at Brockenhurst station , where he commenced the journey back to Swindon , happy to find himself alone among anonymous travellers , able to concentrate at last on all the implications of what he had learned . |
| 28 | and I would n't be able to concentrate at all . |
| 29 | Choose three or four and pick the ones that most need correcting , that is , the words the pupil ought to be able to spell at this stage ( see What goes wrong ? , page 6 ) . |
| 30 | In the base camp , 12,000ft below the summit , equipment has to be able to work at -20°C inside tents and — 40°C outside . |