Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Safety helmets and wet suits are essential , you must be able to swim and it 's vital to follow the leader 's instructions immediately , above all , hang on … packed lunches are included … ’ |
| 2 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 3 | But they are nevertheless able to agree that it is sometimes possible to elaborate functional relations of the sort we have considered . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman and I might be able to agree that it is not unadjacent to the fact that so many inner London authorities are controlled by the Labour party . |
| 5 | I I think I 'm quite able to confirm that it is within the district power to determine that erm the I five allocation should be separate from the I twelve . |
| 6 | You may not be able to retire when it would be most convenient . |
| 7 | But , on balance , the government seemed able to claim that it had turned the tide , albeit with the aid of £2 billions from North Sea oil to swing the balance into surplus . |
| 8 | The sad truth of the matter is that Group 4 has such low levels of performance to live up to that already , despite its much publicised failures , the Home Secretary is able to claim that it is outperforming the public services it is replacing . |
| 9 | Thus a member that protests from the outset of institutional action that is not sanctioned by the constitutive treaty should be able to claim that it is not bound by that action . |
| 10 | The first was the assumption that a ‘ form of words ’ which did not amend the text of the Treaty would be sufficient for the Danish Government to be able to claim that it had satisfied the wishes of the people as expressed in the referendum . |
| 11 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 12 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 13 | Leave it turned down and you 'll be able to see when it starts , yes , okay , you 're a really good boy are n't you ? |
| 14 | Certainly Havelock Ellis in the early part of this century was able to write that it ‘ scarcely appears to excite profound repulsion in a large proportion of the population of civilised countries ’ , and he mentioned specifically that working-class women often resorted to it . |
| 15 | It is therefore necessary Q E D for this county to be able to attract if it can some of the footloose investment which is available in Britain and er generally in Europe . |
| 16 | If one were subsequently to receive a report that when the event occurred , the sun had set , one would be able to infer that it had taken place at exactly 12.00 midnight . |
| 17 | None of us had ever been able to discover whether it was a deliberate effect , or the result of pure chance . |
| 18 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 19 | Labour 's hand on inflation would be strengthened if its leader were able to announce that it now supported early British entry into the exchange rate mechanism of the European monetary system . |
| 20 | Despite appearing to be dumping on IBM Corp from a great height with its agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc — it points out users can move CICS off the mainframe and that mainframe upgrades can cost up to five times the price of an entire Sparccenter 2000 , Micro Focus Plc was yesterday also able to announce that it has won agreement with IBM for an expansion of their long-term relationship in MVS emulation products . |
| 21 | I ca n't imagine that George is gon na continuing doing that forever and it may well be that we 'll be faced with a possibility of , of what we do in the future to have that piece of administration done will we be able to assume that it could done voluntary in the future ? |
| 22 | This is an advantage that the cuckoo is well advised to exploit with care — clearly a young cuckoo reared in a blue tit 's nest box would never be able to escape when it was mature . |
| 23 | So we can distinguish then a third state in w which we can call an inactivated state and which will leave the channel closed , but also unable to respond as it would be able to do if it resided in a simple closed in a simple closed state which were responsive to gating . |
| 24 | Only by defining it in some such manner as suggested will you be able to recognise that it is , or is not , correct . |
| 25 | Additionally , GPs will be able to consider whether it is more cost-effective to refer patients to the hospital at all , or to handle the care themselves . |
| 26 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 27 | The Werner plan , from which that prediction was drawn , was wrecked by events outside Europe — the Nixon shocks and partly the effects of the OPEC increase in the oil price — but no hon. Member seems able to recall that it ever existed . |
| 28 | And then , six weeks after the funeral , he had suddenly found himself able to believe that it had n't happened , not in that way , and that the whole horror was a childhood fantasy . |
| 29 | Tamar looked down at the child , scarcely able to believe that it was all over so quickly . |
| 30 | She stared at it now , hardly able to believe that it was two and a half years since it had been taken . |