Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hopefully I 'll be able to carry on as an amateur and help mum in the shop . ’ |
| 2 | The Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate evacuated to Oxfordshire where three large houses were taken over in Goring-on-Thames and the school was able to carry on in a ‘ make-do ’ fashion . |
| 3 | After a while , he was able to sit up in a chair , although he was still too weak to walk . |
| 4 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 5 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 6 | ‘ And would n't it be fun having three legs and being able to go round in a circle like the Isle of Man flag ? ’ |
| 7 | This Thursday evening at Exeter Hall in Kidlington , visitors will be able to go out on a demonstration with top traffic patrol drivers , and have their driving skills assessed by an advanced instructor . |
| 8 | You used to be able to go along to a pottery , say , and say , ‘ What was going on here at about eight o'clock this morning ? ’ … |
| 9 | Today 's motorists like the idea of being able to drive in without an appointment , see menu pricing and have the job done quickly in the evening or the weekend . |
| 10 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 11 | Even in the ‘ settled ’ areas , where the US and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been active , efforts to eradicate opium by crop substitution have run into trouble for one simple reason : in 30 years , no one has been able to come up with a product as lucrative and easy to market as opium . |
| 12 | In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story . |
| 13 | Now we will be able to come up with a plan in response to the many issues raised . |
| 14 | It was a ritual that distressed Anna Essinger and her staff but , given the pressure to move the children out of the camp so that others could take their places , nobody was able to come up with a better alternative to what was known as ‘ the market ’ . |
| 15 | Being able to come up with a strong hook in a bass line can make a song . |
| 16 | This channel might be solid state but the crunch sounds quite natural , and experimenting with the various options on both channels I ca n't imagine many players not being able to come up with a sound which meets their particular requirements . |
| 17 | To date , no one has been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation . |
| 18 | It notes that if Intel Corp were able to come up with a way to drive 3.8m transistors without frying the chip to a frazzle , Pentium would look pretty good . |
| 19 | ‘ Given access to the data back at your office , I should be able to come up with a suitable package . ’ |
| 20 | I am usually able to come up with an idea |
| 21 | But solipsism is intuitively unacceptable ; and nobody seems to be able to come up with an argument from analogy that will do the trick . |
| 22 | Hence representing revenues from community X by R(X) we can say : The consequence is that the group of three communities would not be willing to go for the scheme involving supply to all three , since they would not be able to come up with an agreed method of sharing the £650 . |
| 23 | I mean , when we was in opposition , if er , if we had a Westminster crisis in Lincolnshire and it suddenly kicked all the conservatives off , we would have been able to come up with an alternative budget to manage this county . |
| 24 | Even now , however , he is prepared to accept that he may not be able to come back in a new guise after three years . |
| 25 | Will you be able to come out for a drink on New Year 's Eve , next Tuesday evening ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Thoroughbreds will always be able to catch up in a race over a long distance . |
| 27 | And it was able to set off on a totally different , and more professional , tack . |
| 28 | He now travelled in disguise from St Malo on 18 December 1715 , to Dunkirk , from where , after a six-week wait , he was at last able to set off on a small eight-gun 200-tonner , for Scotland . |
| 29 | In particular the post of Secretary has become vacant and we would love to hear from anyone who may be able to help out on a temporary or more regular basis … ( see page 23 ) . |
| 30 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |