Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate evacuated to Oxfordshire where three large houses were taken over in Goring-on-Thames and the school was able to carry on in a ‘ make-do ’ fashion . |
| 2 | The Minister warned : ‘ He may be able to carry on in the job but he can not do so effectively . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When she returns from theatre she is rather sleepy but is allowed to take fluids as soon as she feels able to sit up in bed . |
| 5 | After a while , he was able to sit up in a chair , although he was still too weak to walk . |
| 6 | ‘ And would n't it be fun having three legs and being able to go round in a circle like the Isle of Man flag ? ’ |
| 7 | Also , not to be able to take part in things and not to be able to go out in the evening I find difficult . |
| 8 | and that , that 's why their er you know , Shaun , erm , Amelda brought erm Moyra down with the babies , you know she was up there and she could help her down , but Shaun is coming down now wi , this weekend in the car and of course they 'll be able to go back in the car , erm there 's , there 's gon na be a party for erm , of course should warn the girl Of course that 's the awful thing about it is n't it ? |
| 9 | It should try to work out what sort of thing you were trying to say , and maybe be able to work out in , in a general way what you mean , but just need one extra piece of information to disambiguate what you 'd said . |
| 10 | Even now , however , he is prepared to accept that he may not be able to come back in a new guise after three years . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | As Timothy West tells it , this was a moment as chilling as any Ken was able to conjure up in the theatre . |
| 13 | ‘ Thoroughbreds will always be able to catch up in a race over a long distance . |
| 14 | ‘ It must be hell having a woman like Gwen and not to be able to strut around in public possession . |
| 15 | If you are up so bright and early we will be able to set off in very good time . ’ |
| 16 | It 's lovely to be able to walk around in just your underpants again . |
| 17 | But it 's wonderful for the children to be able to grow up in this beautiful place . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps we 'll be able to start up in a shop again , like we did at Silmour Street . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So our belief is that erm with the relationship we 've been able to build up in this city , with confrontation and community participation , with the targeting of the small resources that we do have , as a council in collaboration with the other , the resources of the other bodies , that we can in fact do something . |
| 22 | In comparison to the way in which fraud , obfuscation and inanity have been able to hold out in other fields — from politics and religion to scholarship and law — it is an impressive record . |
| 23 | I wo n't be able to wake up in the morning ! |
| 24 | You would have to know my typewriter to appreciate fully the luxury of being able to hop about in a text making alterations , counting the words at a touch of a button and running off endless perfect copies . |
| 25 | He did n't have much time in his lodgings on the outskirts of the town , but when he was there he was able to lie down in his quiet , quiet room and totally relax . |
| 26 | Of all the places to choose , they picked the retirement capital of America , the Sunshine State of Florida , to hold the company 's annual meeting next week , which suggests that the blue rinse brigade , beside themselves with rage at the way the company has frittered away the value of their investment in it — and cut their dividends , will be able to turn out in force without having to travel and give poor Loius Gerstner the handbagging of his life . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | And all his working life his mind was set on when he retired , instead of down doing it , you know , late at night he was going to be able to get up in the morning and do it . |
| 29 | A lot of these deaths might have been prevented if people had been able to get out in time . |
| 30 | If it becomes obvious during the base leg or final turn that you are far too high to be able to get down in the chosen field , it is often possible to make an S-turn to use up some of the height . |