The phrase "able to perceive the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to understand or recognize something, often in a cognitive or sensory context.
Example: "The scientist was able to perceive the subtle changes in the experiment's results."
Alternatives: "capable of sensing the" or "able to recognize the".
"You have to be able to perceive the quality of the ice itself," he said.
"Being able to perceive the true nature of everything instantly is actually awful," he told the psychiatrist.
The communion between father and son is one of sound — the medium through which Termite is able to perceive the world around him.
And in this production I was able to perceive the sort of sexual sparks, struck by semi-hostile banter, that I associate with Barry's barbed dialogue of courtship.
You see, I might not be able to perceive the nuances of the game, but I know enough about sports that I can tell, for example, when a man is playing hesitantly, tentatively, and making bad decisions.
Shinseki represented a rare form of the organizational man — the consummate careerist, wholly a product of his institution, yet able to perceive the organization's flaws with an outsider's clarity.
In other words, the face in The Scream is that of a modern city dweller cut off from the life-giving forces of nature, cut off from belief or hope or love, cut off from other people, and able to perceive the life force only as a terrifying, destructive storm.
At the time the article was published, it seemed like he was already on his way out, as Donald Rumsfeld, then the Secretary of Defense, and he fought over the future direction of the Army: Shinseki represented a rare form of the organizational man — the consummate careerist, wholly a product of his institution, yet able to perceive the organization's flaws with an outsider's clarity.
We are also able to perceive that the object-nature of the game reduces the impact of individual occurrences within it, leading to a fascination with the mechanism more than the fiction.
"It's difficult when the coach isn't able to perceive that the team is changing and the generation is slowing down," said Ernest Macia of Radio Catalunya.
The patient must be able to perceive when the pain threshold has been reached.
