Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period of numbness , people are perfectly able to carry on with the practicalities of living . |
| 2 | Mrs Critten has an invalid husband , so is unable to get out and about very much , but thanks to Denise and Julia she is able to carry on with her Machine Knitting . |
| 3 | Still , I suppose you would have to develop a certain detachment , otherwise you 'd never be able to carry on with what you 're working on at the moment . ’ |
| 4 | It is hoped that social scientists will not only be able to carry out with greater ease and rapidity those types of computation previously undertaken on mainframe computers but that they may also be able to take advantage of the machines ’ ability to handle graphical information . |
| 5 | When you have understood the gist of this and talked to your inner teacher about what you need as an individual , you will be able to sit down with paper and write your own script . |
| 6 | But they did not yet feel able to go through with changes in their actual behaviour . |
| 7 | She was nearly sixteen ; if she refused to go and told her mother so herself , Anna , they reckoned , would not be able to go through with it . |
| 8 | They have simply not had the chance at school to demonstrate whether or not they are actually able to go on with mathematics . |
| 9 | Chris had written a letter to Tina Jelly in Aldershot saying that he still loved her and missed her a lot , but was sure that until he came home she would be able to go out with his mates from the Royal Signals . |
| 10 | And anyway if they were super models who would be able to go out with one so sad . |
| 11 | She … she wanted to provide me with something to be able to go off with Emma where he could n't get at her . |
| 12 | That , in his view , is long enough to be able to come up with new ideas and see them implemented . |
| 13 | Even in the ‘ settled ’ areas , where the US and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been active , efforts to eradicate opium by crop substitution have run into trouble for one simple reason : in 30 years , no one has been able to come up with a product as lucrative and easy to market as opium . |
| 14 | I think with myself , what I have been able to come up with is being very normal , and everyday people find you easy to relate to and not a threat to them . |
| 15 | In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story . |
| 16 | Now we will be able to come up with a plan in response to the many issues raised . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | It was a ritual that distressed Anna Essinger and her staff but , given the pressure to move the children out of the camp so that others could take their places , nobody was able to come up with a better alternative to what was known as ‘ the market ’ . |
| 19 | Being able to come up with a strong hook in a bass line can make a song . |
| 20 | This channel might be solid state but the crunch sounds quite natural , and experimenting with the various options on both channels I ca n't imagine many players not being able to come up with a sound which meets their particular requirements . |
| 21 | Even if no one is around who can confirm a particular incident , if you are able to come up with details of surroundings and personalities of which you had no conscious memory , and if these are later proved to have been accurate , there is no real reason to suppose that a significant event was simply a figment of an over-active imagination . |
| 22 | I am usually able to come up with an idea |
| 23 | To date , no one has been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation . |
| 24 | But solipsism is intuitively unacceptable ; and nobody seems to be able to come up with an argument from analogy that will do the trick . |
| 25 | It notes that if Intel Corp were able to come up with a way to drive 3.8m transistors without frying the chip to a frazzle , Pentium would look pretty good . |
| 26 | Conrad ( 1965 , pp. 12–13 ) , in his interesting study of penal practice in nine different European countries , was able to come up with five postulates shared by penal administrators in all of them ; and they spell out precisely the rehabilitative programme : |
| 27 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 28 | You might well be able to come up with more ideas of your own . |
| 29 | Hence representing revenues from community X by R(X) we can say : The consequence is that the group of three communities would not be willing to go for the scheme involving supply to all three , since they would not be able to come up with an agreed method of sharing the £650 . |
| 30 | Cellini may not be able to come up with the goods . |