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Driving instructors and parents will no longer be able to use the traditional method of teaching manoeuvres, even with L-plates.
I have never found it necessary to hide that I am able to think logically, that I distinguish sharply between right and wrong terms.
We are able to support any such partnership with training, franchise documentation, and full logistic support.
Her fingernails grew long and sharp, able to pierce the skin of a creature in a matter of seconds.
They were also able to dress up and one boy dressed up as Henry VIII and he looked the part.
Before this the staff had only been able to fly ashore for a couple of days' rest on a rotational basis.
Even more useful is to be able to distinguish between, say, a hardy perennial rudbeckia and a half hardy annual rudbeckia.
The Asian elephant featured strongly in Buddhism and Brahminism and the elephants were tamed and domesticated to be able to be used efficiently.
If you don't understand the rudiments of grammar you won't be able to deal with Shakespeare.
She could tell that he was ruffled, but he wasn't able to come up with anything to say until she was clearly out of his radius.
Keen frosts had slowly given way to warmer weather and after a fortnight's hold-up rugby football and hockey teams were able to play.
Those that get straight As will be able to start AS levels to ease their way into the sixth form.
It needs to be rugged enough to withstand travel and fashionable enough to be able to bring into a business meeting.
We, the readers, know no more than Watson is able to tell us, and as often as not that is not very much.
Even in India, its birthplace, where it has been ruling supreme for the last 3,000 years, it has not been able to permeate the masses.
The general rules of thumb for a good private detective, Eddie said, are to be able to blend in, to act normally and be discreet.
We have already widened and asphalted a one-km stretch and would be able to finish the entire stretch of four km by February-March.
I feel unable to breathe in this paradise, crushed by the mountains that aren't here, scared I won't be able to survive in my asphalt jungle.
These problems increase their risk of not being able to get pregnant, losing a baby, or having a baby too early.
To add to their difficulties, when they were far advanced among the hills, their guide lost the road, and was never able to regain it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Get that girl to give back your gig-lamps, and you will be able to see more clearly into the soul of the Far East.
He may not be able to excise a gasserian ganglion, or know very much about the researches of Calmette or von Pircquet.
Never shall I be able to sufficiently prove my gratitude to you, my poor Gaston.
The reading of the dials on a gas meter comes in the province of the plumber and he should be able to read them.
The glaucous gull is sufficiently strong to be able to defend its eggs and young against the attack of the mountain fox.
He grew able to resist the contagion of her sensualism and to make her happy, without essentially occupying himself.
When it contracts, taking its fixed point at the pelvis, the gluteus medius extends the thigh, which it is also able to abduct.
You see, we hope that you two will be able to draw the Gestapo away from Jones.
Fortunately for us all, Mrs. Gaskell was able to explain who she was, and she has just gone to her home.
That horse is a goer, as we know, and we ought to be able to catch that man sooner or later.
And would not every one be able to assign the reason why Clarissa Harlowe chose solitude, and to sequester herself from the world?
Anything might have come of that impulse if it had had the least protection, if it had been able to find a guideway.
A brood of the goosander or red merganser, the young not yet able to fly, were the occasion of some spirited rowing.
It was indeed only owing to Mr. Greville's influence that they had been able to do so.
Do you fear that I will not be able to nurse your grandbaby, that you sent all the condensed and malted milk?
It was a supreme opportunity for being able to display his grandiose achievements.
He said he could give me camels, but I preferred a hackery as I might be able to sit on it if my pony broke down.
In spite of her fear, however, she was able to hold a grandson in her arms in course of time.
Thus we were able to arrive at the system of sepulture employed by this unknown race.
Consequently they were only able to receive the Serbian attack with rifle fire.
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