Example sentences of "able to compete [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So even if the new authorities are small in scale this must not mean that District Council staff are at any advantage in obtaining jobs in the new authorities — staff here must be able to compete on an equal basis ( 5.7 ) . |
| 2 | Prospects of wholesale changes in working practices and conditions of services , if we will be if we are able to compete with the private sector in an aggressive market . |
| 3 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 4 | In addition graduates will be able to compete for the conventional careers open to geologists . |
| 5 | Officials who get through the qualifying round will be able to compete against the best in the world and there will also be prizes by British divisions . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ Many hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost because our industry , our companies have not been able to compete in a fair contest . ’ |
| 7 | Recent pluralist work has accepted that class division and class competition are pervasive factors in modern society , and that not all interest groups are equal in power or equally able to compete in the political arena . |
| 8 | 4/ The developing countries mostly need to be able to compete in the developed world market , which needs increased co-operation . |
| 9 | Anderson 's aim is to produce riders able to compete in the ten-event Grundig World Series . |