Example sentences of "able [to-vb] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet as those who have had families know , raising any children is an activity which causes considerable problems , and given the full support of social services , short term care and essential back-up facilities services , most parents are able to cope and derive considerable fulfilment from their achievements . |
| 2 | At a minimum , state elites must maintain this domination against potential internal and external challengers , be able to make binding rules for state sub-organizations and groups and institutions in the society , and be able to enforce and manage those rules — through police , judicial and administrative regulation . |
| 3 | ‘ He was then quite happy and able to work and drink all day . ’ |
| 4 | Now he has announced that the UK 's 15 CTCs will be able to train and award qualified teacher status to staff employed as licensed teachers . |
| 5 | So behind every change , every innovation , every development project , there must be somebody with a vision who has been able to communicate and sell that vision to somebody else ( even when the change begins with an assignment , not a self-directed initiative ) . |
| 6 | And we have n't tenterhooked this wall because we wanted to be able to open and shut this curtain so we 've adopted another medieval style taken from erm er medieval manuscripts . |
| 7 | She is able to inspire and motivate other students to undertake community welfare tasks and she shows qualities of leadership as well as the ability to work as one of a team , close quotes . |
| 8 | At museums or historic buildings children , often dressed in costume , may be able to use and handle old equipment — old washing equipment , for instance , or Victorian schoolroom equipment . |
| 9 | Yet if we are to be realistic in our starting-point we must accept that the relationships which give rise to nuclear catastrophe are likely to be relationships between sovereign states , each able to possess and deploy armed force for their own interests . |
| 10 | My treatment of intonation is based on the belief that foreign learners of English at advanced levels who may use this course should be given training to make them better able to recognise and copy English intonation ; the only really efficient way to learn to use the intonation of a language is the way a child acquires the intonation of its first language , and the training referred to above should help the adult learner of English to acquire English intonation in a similar ( though much slower ) way — through listening to and talking to English speakers . |
| 11 | In order to be able to use contextual relations for semantic purposes , therefore , we need to be able to recognise and discount combinatorial peculiarities which are purely grammatical in nature . |
| 12 | By being able to recognize and share mutual difficulties , they can be tackled in partnership . |
| 13 | However , members of the school community should have enough skill and confidence to be able to analyse and query budgetary data such as the regular statements which should be produced by the headteacher . |
| 14 | The student will be able to demonstrate and use current trade practices , support systems and client contact skills . |
| 15 | By the end of the training students will be able to control and organise risky situations and save endangered lives . |
| 16 | Brian 's list of positive aspects reflects the value for the patient of being able to maintain and maximise residual ability and is particularly important as a component of a rehabilitative programme . |
| 17 | Church music , he said , was ‘ both apt as well to quicken the spirits as to allay that which is too eager , sovereign against melancholy and despair , forcible to draw forth tears of devotion … able to move and to moderate all affections ’ . |
| 18 | The key to 88open 's future , as he sees it , is being able to test and certify binary compatibility across systems that do not include an 88000 processor or application . |
| 19 | The key to 88open 's future , as he sees it , is being able to test and certify binary compatibility across platforms that do not include an 88000 processor or application . |
| 20 | Given more memory and faster processing , geneticists may be able to store and process huge amounts of information on the human gene , thereby shedding light on what exact differences cause hereditary traits and illnesses . |
| 21 | In contrast , the knowledge of the rule system , which an individual needs in order to be able to produce and understand grammatical sentences , is referred to as language competence . |
| 22 | We decided that all children must be able to speak and write Standard English , when appropriate ( see next chapter ) . |
| 23 | But all children , whatever their background , must be able to speak and write Standard English , when appropriate . |
| 24 | The designer is able to construct and analyse any mechanism within the assembled kinematics programs . |
| 25 | Branch administration officers are as I , I 've already said , we 'll be able to recruit and support full-time officials . |
| 26 | Perhaps if someone invented a time machine ( almost certainly a scientific impossibility ) archaeologists would have the satisfaction of being able to prove and disprove each other 's theories ; failing that , we have to accept that the science of the distant past is a matter of informed deduction and , let us face it , guesswork . |