Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | One beauty of it is now with Yellow Pages for them being able to pay things monthly , they 're used to giving signing contracts for things like that . |
| 2 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 3 | Er would the factories between them be able to help with that for a spell Er one of the things that I 'm slightly concerned about is if you 've only got old buffers on the stand erm rather than younger people |
| 4 | No sir , it , I could n't remember but erm I 'm not surprised er between I was able to ascertain that the two were known to each other . |
| 5 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 6 | And it is also the mechanisms by which the cells or parts of them are able to perform the instructions . |
| 7 | By putting those volunteers through a series of rapid tests on-stage , he will soon discover which of them are able of achieving the deep-trance state ; it is only these people who will respond quickly and satisfactorily to his suggestions . |
| 8 | While some of them are able to accept the situation with equanimity and wait for it to pass , others tend to panic and assume that the condition must of necessity be a permanent one . |
| 9 | Many of them are able to get around independently and , like the rest of use , have every right to enjoy a country walk . |
| 10 | They are able to do a lot of things that former generations could not do ; for instance a lot of them are able to study now in the legal field , become nurses and so on . |
| 11 | One employer remarked in 1902 that : In regard to girls from Board Schools , our experience in regard to their reading powers is exactly the reverse of that of the boys , most of them being able to read both print and manuscript with ease and accuracy . " |
| 12 | Topsel warns that playing with them may destroy the lungs and corrupt the air : ‘ There was a certain company of Monks much given to nourish and play with Cats , whereby they were so infected , that within a short space none of them were able to say , read , pray , or sing , in all the Monastery . |
| 13 | The three of them were able to use some sessions of family therapy to acknowledge the need to grieve for the past as well as to prepare for the future . |
| 14 | Besides , she had said , perhaps they would take more time repairing the heating system if they knew the two of them were able to keep warm without it . |
| 15 | The ship had left England with a crew of 36 but , as a result of desertions , only 19 remained and only 4 or 5 of them were able seamen . |
| 16 | Up until then the labouring people may have enjoyed only basic material fare , " but most of them were able to support their families in an average year without having to resort to the parish for relief " . |
| 17 | At the end of the session every one of them was able to answer the hitherto unanswered questions . |
| 18 | She also bought Frankie new clothes and Liza too , but neither of them was able to attend the funeral : they both had bad colds . |
| 19 | They had caught the train at last , and beyond that not one of them was able to think . |
| 20 | Already by 1728 one of them was able to describe him as ‘ better Acquainted with our Trade than any Draper in London ’ ( see Price , ‘ The Great Quaker Business Families ’ , p. 391 , note 8 ) . |
| 21 | The self-authenticating nature of their experiences meant that neither of them was able to doubt them , yet the similarities must not blind us to certain differences . |
| 22 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 23 | The male sex drive being what it is , the chances of his being able to stop are less perhaps than she realizes . |
| 24 | Erm , I think although members are n't concerned about the proceedings being tape recorded , the officers may be , in terms of you being able to produce a recording at a later date of what we actually say , which may be at variance with the minutes . |
| 25 | It would be lovely if many of you were able to be present on that day . |
| 26 | We were collating , so I can collate the information and present the information as a table , how many of you were able to do the tallies ? |
| 27 | But eventually they come to accept the situation and seem able to live each day more perfectly and more beautifully than the rest of us are able to do . |
| 28 | Not only did her question underline how far communication had broken down between us but also how little either of us was able to meet the other 's needs . |
| 29 | Since there was no question of us being able to invest in a cargo ourselves , let alone afford to charter the empty vessel , our only solution lay in returning to Makassar and attempting to persuade our Chinese friends to raise the merchandise themselves and to send us along as its stewards and guardians . |
| 30 | A group of us were able to provide almost all the funding to set up a pump and latrines for one particular village in India . |