Example sentences of "be able [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In this way those candidates who recognise that they are unsuitable are able to drop out of the process early on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was as if someone had been trapped inside and had kicked and beaten the door — perhaps without success — until the power had gone and they had been able to drive back down the hill . |
| 11 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 12 | Many Libyans especially in the smaller towns had been able to move out of the path of oncoming measures of social justice : many would not have been affected in any case ; some had no doubt been caught . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning . |
| 15 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 16 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 17 | The didactic works which the nobility used to educate their children stressed , in the words of the Burgundian , Ghillebert de Lannoy ( himself a nobleman ) , the obligation to ‘ expose themselves to death for the good of the land ’ , an ideal which many would have been able to read about in the works of classical authors such as Valerius Maximus , Livy and Caesar . |
| 18 | Just as the inhabitants of the barrios here defend their pathetic shanties to the last , defying the well-meaning efforts of the authorities to relocate them , so the poor in intellect cling to whatever feeble idea they have been able to fashion out of the odds and ends they have foraged . |
| 19 | What have you been able to find out from the parents ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Her early education had been poor because of the misconception amongst her teachers that language ability and intelligence were somehow different facts of a single concept , and it was only in later life , with the help of her husband , that she 'd been able to make up on the intellectual deprivation of those early years . |
| 22 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 23 | If it rains , do you think that doll will be able to sit up under the hood of the pram ? |
| 24 | You going to be able to turn out for the polo team ? ’ |
| 25 | Rev Eric Shegog , Director of Communication for the Church of England , said that he hoped the working party would be able to report back in the autumn of 1992 . |
| 26 | By holding on to that possession , the people of this country would be able to hold on to the banners of freedom . |
| 27 | That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen . |
| 28 | From there she 'd be able to go down to the lakeside if she chose , or else pick up one of the shore paths that would take her further into the valley . |
| 29 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 30 | Dr Kenneth has warned me I wo n't be able to go out until the spring . |