Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 2 | Most trips involve a certain amount of walking and most people can walk , with 97 per cent of the population able to go out on foot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This Thursday evening at Exeter Hall in Kidlington , visitors will be able to go out on a demonstration with top traffic patrol drivers , and have their driving skills assessed by an advanced instructor . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll be able to go back on the streets , ’ she said . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , Bernie , I have n't been able to bring myself to tell you this , but I 'm not sure if I 'll ever be able to go back on stage . |
| 7 | It made us able to stand up on our own two feet , to sharpen us up in many respects . |
| 8 | I was able to try out on the author of The Rise of the Meritocracy some local antidotes to the disease he had diagnosed a decade before . |
| 9 | I was able to come back on that and add up the figures perfectly competently , but I can imagine that other people might not have been able to , and |
| 10 | It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them |
| 11 | Of course , some were able to pull through on sheer physical strength , quickness and resilience , but there is evidence to suggest that shrewdness or guile were useful properties to have when it came to self-preservation . |
| 12 | Eventually it may become so big that one of the young sons may be able to set up on his own in one corner of it . |
| 13 | And it was able to set off on a totally different , and more professional , tack . |
| 14 | He now travelled in disguise from St Malo on 18 December 1715 , to Dunkirk , from where , after a six-week wait , he was at last able to set off on a small eight-gun 200-tonner , for Scotland . |
| 15 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 16 | Students have to show that they understand what has been learned so deeply that they are able to look down on it and assess it critically for themselves . |
| 17 | Occurring spontaneously with this was the creation of what man , millions of years later is able to look back on and recognise as myriads of units of ‘ goodness ’ being produced from those ‘ good ’ events which were controlling evolution , and which he can now understand as being the origins of his well-being . |
| 18 | Roberts , the Second Master , was able to look back on his 35 years at School . |
| 19 | All in all , we will be able to look back on 1990 as a year of solid achievement and forward to 1991 with confidence . |
| 20 | Spinner Peter Such , close to tears on Monday night after England 's 179-run defeat , will be able to look back on his own performance with pride when the disappointment of collective failure fades a little . |
| 21 | In particular the post of Secretary has become vacant and we would love to hear from anyone who may be able to help out on a temporary or more regular basis … ( see page 23 ) . |
| 22 | But why anyone would want to carry a bike up a mountain on their shoulder for the pleasure of being able to bump about on it for tiny , short stretches of flat ridge was completely beyond me . |
| 23 | According to an auction house representative the latter is the more likely outcome , because he doubts whether some countries , for example Italy , will be able to clamp down on smuggling . |
| 24 | There are , however , many other situations in atomic and nuclear physics where there is some kind of barrier that particles should not be able to penetrate on classical principles but that they are able to tunnel through on quantum-mechanical principles . |
| 25 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 26 | Yet ambitious and confident consultants , especially those good at business development and successful at winning shootouts , are still able to branch out on their own , and it would not be healthy for the industry if this were otherwise . |
| 27 | What I would n't give , I thought , to be able to lie down on that bed , just for a minute . |
| 28 | People were seen queuing overnight outside travel agents to be able to cash in on a £20 holiday for four ! |
| 29 | and that phone will be useless , wo n't be able to ring out on it |
| 30 | At first you will only be able to crouch down on the board , but as you get used to pulling down on the booms to pull yourself up again , you will be able to get lower . |