Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would those 0.5 m. voters be able to cope sensibly with a list which if West German custom were followed would include twenty names ? — or for that matter with a list of 15 names or ten ? |
| 2 | Private borrowing is likely to rise by the same amount and may rise by even more if the privatised company is able to borrow freely from the market rather than relying on the government . |
| 3 | In the second group , there were those countries , like Kenya , who had never been able to borrow much from the banks . |
| 4 | The KH-11s may be able to transmit directly to the allies ' command centre in Saudi Arabia . |
| 5 | Once they 're approved landlords or homeowners will be able to go straight to a county court for a possession order . |
| 6 | ‘ The documents show that the companies will be able to go straight to the director general of water services for extra price increases , ’ he told the conference . |
| 7 | circular DNA molecules able to replicate independently of the chromosome in microorganisms . |
| 8 | Crustaceans are able to amble freely among the anemone 's tentacles because their hard exoskeletons protect them from stings from the nematocysts . |
| 9 | The adamantium floor down there was inscribed with a maze of tiny coloured channels that bootsteps would never be able to wear away in a pattern suggestive of a cosmic map — and along all of those channels were spaced little indentations the depth of a Fist 's thumbprint , each recess named with a rune . |
| 10 | Yet party leaders did not want direct control , in case TANU was banned : they wanted the paper to be able to continue even in the event of this happening . |
| 11 | But on Venus , because of its much more massive atmosphere the bending is more marked and we are able to see well beyond the horizon , particularly because the lower atmosphere of Venus is usually very clear . |
| 12 | By raising and lowering the handle it is possible to follow the contours of the shape , and though this can also be said of a normal chisel , I enjoyed being able to concentrate solely on the chisel edge , as if whittling . |
| 13 | That 's what makes us significant , three very different kinds of people able to work together in a band . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Rodger Bell QC , for Mr Bewick , suggested that his client had a ‘ bee in his bonnet ’ about surgeons being able to work anywhere at a drop of a hat . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 'll be able to come home in the evenings and you can teach me the things I need to know , ’ said Endill . |
| 16 | Skymaster is on Page 1500 , which you 'll normally be able to find automatically through an access key on whatever keyboard you use . |
| 17 | Women would increasingly in the future be recruited into the new semi-skilled jobs , often at piece rates , so that employers were able to benefit both from the job 's lack of a craft tradition behind it , and from a work-force trained from childhood to regard anything they did as unskilled . |
| 18 | I was able to benefit greatly from the work already completed by this group and by the advice and encouragement which they provided . |
| 19 | You will need to be methodical and able to communicate effectively with the ability to operate largely unsupervised . |
| 20 | Nursing care based upon the nursing process is being widely implemented in the United Kingdom , and one of the main skills that nurses need to develop is the ability to be able to communicate effectively with the patient and his family , in order to be able to define the patient 's problems . |
| 21 | For most of our students , the main objective is to be able to communicate confidently in the language of their choice , so practice in listening and speaking are our first priorities . |
| 22 | We seem to be able to communicate better with a horse if no one else is around . |
| 23 | At some point in its development it has to create more organized political groups , or convert or capture existing political organizations , which are able to engage directly in a struggle for power and have the capacity to use power when they have gained it in order to reconstruct society . |
| 24 | I wo n't be able to talk much in the workshop , what with everyone around and all those cherry trees to fix , but I 'll ask her out after , for a coffee or something . |
| 25 | With this in mind , one must be concerned with how fans gain admission to the Rowdies group , how they are able to progress socially within the group , and with how they are able to graduate out of the group . |
| 26 | with imitative activity filling the gap until the child is able to participate meaningfully as a partner in home-centred behaviours , the definition of this aspect of the female sex role [ the domestic one ] seems to proceed without interruption and with continuous reinforcement from the cradle on . |
| 27 | ‘ People need expertise in language to be able to participate effectively in a democracy . |
| 28 | If someone has suffered severe hearing loss for many years and suddenly is able to hear well through an aid , he is likely to have the same experience of surprise . |
| 29 | It was used to print religious texts in Cyrillic characters and was able to function even during the period of Turkish overlordship after 1499 , when Cetinje was incorporated into the sandžak of Skadar . |
| 30 | The special treatment that concessions represent removes from older people the dignity associated with being able to function independently without the need for subsidy or support . |