Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If non-farming activities reach the VAT registration threshold , farmers will be required to register for all their activities , farming and non-farming , and will not be able to carry on as flat rate farmers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 4 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 5 | The size of the device — which Faris expects to be able to scale down to 0.1 micrometres across — makes it suitable for use in very and ultra-large scale integrated circuits . |
| 6 | The old cricket pavilion was demolished and then cobbled back together as a grandstand able to accommodate up to fifty spectators . |
| 7 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 8 | Conrad ( 1965 , pp. 12–13 ) , in his interesting study of penal practice in nine different European countries , was able to come up with five postulates shared by penal administrators in all of them ; and they spell out precisely the rehabilitative programme : |
| 9 | That , in his view , is long enough to be able to come up with new ideas and see them implemented . |
| 10 | Even if the student is not able to come up with alternative offerings of his or her own , at least he or she can say with some honesty : ‘ I believe that to be the case , and this is why . ’ |
| 11 | You might well be able to come up with more ideas of your own . |
| 12 | ‘ It must be hell having a woman like Gwen and not to be able to strut around in public possession . |
| 13 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 14 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |
| 15 | Jane McLoughlin also met an ex-hacker who , since his self-cure , had been able to look back with some pleasure at his early hacking day 's : ‘ I 'd kick that machine of mine into life , sing a snatch of Yes . |
| 16 | To be a good government officer you must be able to put up with these frustrations . |
| 17 | Employees will no longer be able to opt out of cashless pay systems . |
| 18 | There are , however , many other situations in atomic and nuclear physics where there is some kind of barrier that particles should not be able to penetrate on classical principles but that they are able to tunnel through on quantum-mechanical principles . |
| 19 | In the past , fisheries have been able to start up without adequate information about either the target stock or its role in ocean ecology . |
| 20 | The BAe 1000 , claimed by BAe to be two years ahead of the competition , will be able to fly up to 15 passengers direct from London to the West coast of the US , Rio de Janeiro or Singapore with one stop-off . |
| 21 | No but I 'm saying I 'm not gon na be able to run around for eighty minutes being . |
| 22 | The answer is that these deceptions have to fool all possible predators and while some may be able to tune in to one detail others may have a searching-image for something quite different . |
| 23 | Indeed far from being fearful of continued public objection , local authorities should be more concerned about their ability to be able to keep up with public demand for calming various residential areas once the ideas take off . |
| 24 | Very anxious to promote the Wales in Europe scheme because it 's been very important to us , including the links that er we have been able to build up with other regions of Europe in Catalonia , , Lombardy and Battenberkaburg above all er which our our sort of strong erm er neighbours which can teach us a lot about industry and these are the areas that we will want to link up with by having this extra seat in the European parliament , er and obviously I mean there are sorts of areas where we have some sympathy with the occasional point that is made by the anti-Europe speakers on the other side . |
| 25 | So our belief is that erm with the relationship we 've been able to build up in this city , with confrontation and community participation , with the targeting of the small resources that we do have , as a council in collaboration with the other , the resources of the other bodies , that we can in fact do something . |
| 26 | In comparison to the way in which fraud , obfuscation and inanity have been able to hold out in other fields — from politics and religion to scholarship and law — it is an impressive record . |
| 27 | He would never be able to settle down to married life like a suburban husband . |
| 28 | Charles would never be able to settle down to married life like a suburban husband . |
| 29 | With these five factors examined and the results of preliminary thinking kept in mind , the teacher or the planning team will be able to settle down to detailed planning of the specific learning sequence in question , whether it is a short piece of structured work with a work-sheet , tape-slide sequence or programmed unit , or whether it occupies several weeks of varied work . |
| 30 | It will be able to execute up to six instructions ( or eight operations ) per clock cycle ( compared with the PowerPC 's four instructions or five operations ) . |