Example sentences of "we [am/are] able [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 We are able to see into the heart of things for other people .
2 In a constantly changing economic environment we are able to draw on the strengths of our parent companies — The Royal Bank of Scotland and Scottish Equitable — and create effective and flexible ways to meet the needs of people like you .
3 To some extent we are able to get round the problems of localizing lesion sites by using modem imaging techniques like NMR ( nuclear magnetic resonance ) and CAT ( computerized axial tomography ) scanning ( Carlson 1986 ) .
4 Once we see that the relationship between a set of explanatory principles and the more specific analyses offered by social scientists must be a reciprocal one we are able to benefit from the fact that , just as social scientific practice is moulded by existing views of explanation , so those views can be refined and altered by the impact of practice .
5 You might put it this way : We are human beings , not because we have souls but because we are able to conceive of the possibility that we might have souls .
6 Prospects of wholesale changes in working practices and conditions of services , if we will be if we are able to compete with the private sector in an aggressive market .
7 ‘ As long as we 're able to go to the cemetery we will keep an eye on Brian 's grave . ’
8 Erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion , that we 're able to stick to the time that we 've allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that we 've got .
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