Example sentences of "[am/are] able [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures . |
| 4 | Misunderstandings can arise as a result of this , when , for example , teachers see children who are able to run about in the playground with confidence , but seem unable to discriminate printed letters in their reading books . |
| 5 | With this in mind , one must be concerned with how fans gain admission to the Rowdies group , how they are able to progress socially within the group , and with how they are able to graduate out of the group . |
| 6 | In this way those candidates who recognise that they are unsuitable are able to drop out of the process early on . |
| 7 | By doing this the work of the council is expedited and the officers of the council are able to get on with the instructions of the committee without waiting for confirmation by the council of the decisions of the committee . |