Able

Are you able to meet our requirements?

At the moment we are not able to ...

Bread is able to molder, what are you able to do?

But had the man worn a costume and spoken a language different from our own […] we would be quite able to arrive at a perfectly unprejudiced estimate of his position and value.

Could you by any chance be able to help?

He seeks a job where he is able to call the shots/tune

I am afraid I will not be able to keep the appointment I made for Friday 17th June.

I have been able to gain something positive from the debate

I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was - there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had, but man is but a patch’d fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

I think, much to my regret, that I will not be able to visit you this year

I was able to channel a lot of my bitterness into action

If you dish it out, you have to be able to take it

It’s too bad you weren’t able to come with us. You really missed out!

not to be able to get going in the morning

Not to be able to say boo to a goose