Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [noun] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A GYROSTABILISER consists of a small , rapidly spinning , motor-driven flywheel which is able to sense movement of a model about any chosen axis and apply a cancelling movement to the appropriate servo . |
| 2 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 3 | This chapter is concerned with developing methods able to provide estimates of the confidence regions around GIS map-based outputs by taking into account certain selected sources of uncertainty affecting spatial databases . |
| 4 | In the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark on the other hand , Charles Dickens ( whose father spent a time there in 1824 ) made clear in Little Dorrit the prisoners were able to find help of every kind within the prison 's walls . |
| 5 | Security of tenure , subject to their landlord being able to regain possession of the property on certain defined grounds , i.e. if they do not pay their rent . |
| 6 | Over the next few hours , however , the latter were able to regain control of the situation and turn it to their advantage . |
| 7 | The trustees of the seller 's pension scheme are not under the seller 's control and so the seller may not be able to procure payment of a transfer value equal to that agreed . |
| 8 | On grant aid the Council will be able to give details of the budget for revenue grant aid for 1988/89 , and indicate the position as far as is known on the likely budgets for the following two years . |
| 9 | The subsequent regression equation was able to predict 89% of the patients who will die and 97% of the patients who will still be alive six weeks after their first variceal haemorrhage treated by sclerotherapy . |
| 10 | I need to be able to read outputs of a maximum of 100A ( this may seem high but in my work you come across this sort of output ) . |
| 11 | On the stage you would n't make that mistake , you 'd be able to keep track of the identity . |
| 12 | But this would make nonsense of events at the end of April , when Gloucester was able to seize possession of the prince from an unsuspecting earl Rivers . |
| 13 | But this would make nonsense of events at the end of April , when Gloucester was able to seize possession of the prince from an unsuspecting earl Rivers . |
| 14 | The British polymath Thomas Young ( 1773–1829 ) , using the fact that the name of Ptolemy appeared several times , was able to decipher part of the hieroglyphics . |
| 15 | You may be required to pay up front for any treatment and will only be able to reclaim part of the cost . |
| 16 | For example , he was able to reconcile membership of the Church of England ( rather High ) with belonging to such occult groups as the Order of the Golden Dawn . |
| 17 | In December , Mr May operated , but was only able to remove 70pc of the tumour , as to remove anymore would have stopped her breathing completely . |
| 18 | The trade association for driving instructors might also be able to supply details of the experience of other new driving instructors . |
| 19 | you get , see if we can get hold of like , I mean you wo n't be able to get hold of a Wurlitzer because nowadays they 're like gold dust , but you might be able to get hold of parts , you see . |
| 20 | ‘ We have n't been able to get hold of the boy concerned since he and his family moved away soon after the incident , whatever it was . |
| 21 | Yet Hobbins would not have been able to get hold of the bullets if a broken cabinet in his barracks had been repaired . |
| 22 | Christine 's former boy-friend Robert Broxup called for an inquiry into how the youngster was able to get hold of the acid . |
| 23 | I was able to take controls of the aircraft when we were up in the sky . |
| 24 | Always have a pen and paper by the phone so that you are able to take notes of the conversation . |
| 25 | We planted 118 trees in all and at that time were fortunate in being able to take advantage of a Cambridgeshire County Council grant-aided scheme for amenity tree-planting . |
| 26 | Finally , firms that do extensive R&D seem to be better able to take advantage of the experience generated by travelling down the learning curve ( see Lieberman , 1984 ) . |
| 27 | A period of anarchy followed , in which the Turks were able to take advantage of the divisions amongst their Christian enemies to raid into both Croatia and the Slovene lands of Carniola . |
| 28 | As there is never enough money to do all the BDA wants to do the Association was fortunate during the years 1982–1988 to be able to take advantage of the Manpower Services Commission 's scheme of placing unemployed people in short-term work for the benefit of the community . |
| 29 | Newton was able to take advantage of the work of Galileo , Kepler and others to construct that comprehensive physics that he published in his Principia in 1687 . |
| 30 | It is hoped that social scientists will not only be able to carry out with greater ease and rapidity those types of computation previously undertaken on mainframe computers but that they may also be able to take advantage of the machines ’ ability to handle graphical information . |