Example sentences of "[verb] able [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if a girl does not feel able to go and ask for the Pill , or if she is reluctant to use it because she sees it as a health risk , the alternative may be to use nothing . |
| 2 | But like no other yet characterised it seems able to exist and function in a large number of structural permutations . |
| 3 | I insisted that I should pay her a rent of five shillings a week and also asked her , somewhat tentatively , if she felt able to come and have tea with my mother in Romford . |
| 4 | In different parts of the world the transition from childhood to the adult state may be protracted — as in our country and others of advanced Western culture ; passed through by means of relatively brief " rites of passage " formally enjoined by custom ; or virtually non-existent in those cultures where the boy becomes a man without ceremony or fuss as he becomes able to satisfy and support a wife . |
| 5 | It is therefore necessary to become able to recognize and attach meaning to the words and to the patterns of which the sentences consist . |