Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | With her ears ringing from the massive blast of the weapon she threw herself down and crawled across to the wall by the front door , able to see back through the sitting-room to the kitchen . |
| 32 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 33 | On being able to stand up to the USSR , Thatcher scored 80 per cent in the precampaign week , easing to 79 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 34 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 35 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 36 | A Japanese-led bloc of Asian nations would be militarily and economically secure , and able to stand up to the threat posed by the nations of Europe and by the United States . |
| 37 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 38 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 39 | That demanded constant attention , and yet the Prime Minister must also be able to stand back from the pressure of events and think about the future . |
| 40 | I was able to try out on the author of The Rise of the Meritocracy some local antidotes to the disease he had diagnosed a decade before . |
| 41 | He was delighted to find the house still a blaze of light ; that meant the part was still in full swing , which meant Gerard would be busy … and that meant that he should be able to creep in through the kitchen door . |
| 42 | People in my trade are supposed to be able to help , but I 've only been able to come up with the old platitude : ‘ Do n't buy a £500 car from a dealer because you 'll only get £100 worth of vehicle — the rest will be profit . ’ |
| 43 | Cellini may not be able to come up with the goods . |
| 44 | Set up a lab like mine and run the same experiments , and anyone should be able to come up with the same results , for they do not depend on excessively mysterious skills or tricks , and science is after all , in the words of its most passionately admiring philosophers , public knowledge . |
| 45 | However , its subsidiary , Barclays Direct Mortgage Services , was able to come up with the sums in a matter of days . |
| 46 | Well I think there 's every chance that it will get the go-ahead er I mean obviously er there are money restraints but I 'm sure that the District Council will be able to come up with the appropriate amount . |
| 47 | The tide was going out , she saw ; if she walked along the parade as far as the pier , she would be able to come back along the sands . |
| 48 | ‘ I 'm just really happy I was able to come back in the second and third sets , ’ said Sukova , who held three set points in the first set , including two in the tie-break , before Sanchez took the decider 9–7 . |
| 49 | Are you able to come out at the weekend with us ? ’ |
| 50 | Erm yeah so so so you might be able to find out from the institute |
| 51 | What have you been able to find out from the parents ? ’ |
| 52 | ‘ I think I 'll be able to 'op back to the bedroom by meself , ’ said Dolly . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | In fact , one of Ramsay 's greatest achievements was in the atmosphere he was able to conjure up through the depiction of materials . |
| 55 | As Timothy West tells it , this was a moment as chilling as any Ken was able to conjure up in the theatre . |
| 56 | The safety factor was also important as older people were not so able to jump out of the way of stock or swinging gates . |
| 57 | Richmann stood his ground , certain he would be able to jump out of the . |
| 58 | The hope among many is that Lamont , or as looks increasingly unlikely , his successor , will be able to pull back from the second rise when he comes to the December 1994 Budget . |
| 59 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 60 | Like Mrs Thatcher , he is able to reach out beyond the middle-class , private-sector bastions of Tory support to wider social echelons , and to ground the Tory philosophy deep in the changing social contours of the ‘ new Britain ’ . |