Example sentences of "able [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also able to report that under the new chief executive , David Michels , the group had regained control of its runaway balance sheet position by selling its Ashbourne nursing home division , launching a well-received rights issue and restructuring the banking arrangements with a considerable reduction in the number of banks . |
| 2 | At Speech Day in that year the Headmaster was able to announce that from September the School would be fully co-educational , in fulfilment of the plan announced five years earlier . |
| 3 | From a fixture in my possession , I am able to record that through fares from Bishop 's Castle ( assume third class return ) were : — London 45s 8d ; Wolverhampton 8s 6d ; Liverpool 19s 9d ; Whitchurch 6s 10d ; Oxford 11s 3d . |
| 4 | It is good therefore to be able to record that at least one such effort scored a stunning success . |
| 5 | But I was thinking if we you know , if I knew sort of what the sort of philosophy was behind it I might be able to incorporate that into , the office meetings and say we were having team briefings . |
| 6 | Knowing the time the dot was in any particular position , Libet was able to calculate that on average the experience of the conscious intention to act was reported as beginning about 200 msec before the movement began . |
| 7 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 8 | Platelet aggregation induced by endoperoxides appeared to be greater than that which could be accounted for by the endoperoxides alone , and Hamberg et al ( 1975 ) were able to demonstrate that in platelets endoperoxides are further metabolised to a very unstable compound , thromboxane A 2 . |
| 9 | We had it mounted and we 're proud and pleased to be able to present that to you on behalf of the G M B. |
| 10 | Accordingly I ought to be able to say that at this stage his comments seem to me beside the point , or more exactly in excess of it . |
| 11 | Out of 10 who said their style was 9,9 at the beginning of the week , only one is likely to be able to say that at the end , affirms Penfold with relish . |
| 12 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 13 | In that debate I was able to say that in Croydon in 1991 there were more than 40,000 enrolments for higher education , representing 20,000 to 30,000 students . |
| 14 | I think we will be able to say that in ten years time the microprocessor will really be with us . |
| 15 | will we be able to bring that into the essay |
| 16 | They were able to show that at least one of the reasons for their failure was the immigration of insects from surrounding , untreated areas . |
| 17 | From our study we have been able to show that at least 5% ( 6/122 ) of patients will not have polyps at 30 years of age on sigmoidoscopy and , as only 36/ 123 in our series were shown to definitely have polyps under 30 years , the real figure may be somewhat higher . |
| 18 | Grieco is able to show that in each of the situations she studied in different regions of Britain , proportions of the workforce had kin connections with the firm for which they worked . |
| 19 | What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday . |