Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [num ord] [be] able [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the Cairngorms through the Spey valley pinewoods round Abernethy and Rothiemurchus , out to Wester Ross and even the inner isles , so much wild country is changing hands — or at least changing status — that is has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures and of what the poet Thomas Grey called ‘ the pomp of power ’ , where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ' past follies and arrogance . |
| 2 | Bog asphodel and damselfly. ‘ … it has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures … where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ’ past follies and arrogance . ’ |
| 3 | If they are , we will at last be able to see the countryside put back into countryside management . |
| 4 | But with both in place , Russia will at last be able to make full use of the $13 billion in foreign help that has been promised . |
| 5 | Armed with these and other detailed structural pictures , we may at last be able to get a handle on some of the many and complex eukaryotic transcriptional control mechanisms at the molecular level . |