Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [conj] [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 | Some of the patients with a curve in excess of 100° were no longer able to sit because of the pelvic obliquity consequent on the scoliosis ; they were bedridden not because of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy itself but because they had been allowed to develop such extensive spinal curves before referral to an orthopaedic muscle clinic . |
| 3 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 4 | Ana had loved the carving and Maggie had not been able to wait until after dinner to give it to her . |
| 5 | How he had never really been able to write because of her . |
| 6 | ‘ I have to play with pain-killing injections and I 'm not able to train except for a short time doing set-pieces on a Friday . ’ |
| 7 | You might not be able to come but at least you can you may at least have had the opportunity , so erm that 's how they 're being decided . |
| 8 | She had reminded herself that once or twice recently Miss Poraway had n't been able to come because of her nasal complaint , and Mrs Blackham , who was at least efficient , had taken her place . |
| 9 | But we could say that in any marriage it is important for both partners to be able to contain and at times to say ‘ enough is enough ’ . |
| 10 | It is also seen as a way in to paid CAB work for black workers who might not normally be economically able to volunteer but through circumstances beyond their control find that they have no choice . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't been able to sleep because of all the worry . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've hardly been able to sleep because of all this worry . |
| 14 | In talks with leaders from the Baltic states on Sept. 10 the Soviet Defence Minister , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , maintained that Soviet troops would not be able to leave until after 1994 because of the problem of housing troops in the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is good therefore to be able to record that at least one such effort scored a stunning success . |
| 17 | I am writing to request any information you may be able to give as to the key 's history and value . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | you know what he 'll be able to do and to what contribution he 'll be able to make |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Neither was able to brake and in seconds both vanished over the top of an ice cliff , falling on to the seracs below . |
| 24 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 25 | They were also able to survive because of a large freshwater pond . |
| 26 | 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. |
| 27 | She finished her letter by saying that this must seem a very small matter to people suffering serious illnesses but she resented not feeling able to complain because of her fear of being seen as childish or neurotic . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |