Example sentences of "able [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now and then , he was able to perform a special service for one of his clients and there was a little secrecy involved . |
| 2 | It is much easier to talk about something or explain if you have it in front of you and even though the listener can not actually see it you will be able to paint a mental picture for him . |
| 3 | Here he was able to indulge a growing passion for literature , but not poetry , he recollects . |
| 4 | At present it would be unrealistic to think in terms of every parish being able to sustain a catechetical programme for all its parishioners . |
| 5 | ‘ Stateless societies ’ have existed , in which political conflicts and decisions are bound up with kinship relations , or with religious conceptions and rituals , and all or most adult members of society may participate in these activities , without any specialized group of people being able to claim a particular responsibility for carrying them on . |
| 6 | More recently , as the size of the Department and its financial and manpower resources permitted , it was able to provide a centralized service for a growing number of tribunals . |
| 7 | Keynesian economics was easily able to provide a suitable litany for the broad church of economic policy of the 1950s . |
| 8 | However , it is nevertheless suggested that the draftsman is unlikely to be able to provide a satisfactory procedure for future disputes without losing most of the advantages of determination by expert . |
| 9 | I 've no doubt you 'll be able to provide a satisfactory alibi for last evening . |
| 10 | Sheep farmer Alison Hunter Blair has a lamb which has been orphaned after it 's mother died , now through a special lamb bank set up by the national farmers union she 'll be able to find a new mother for the lamb . |
| 11 | As a measure of the regard in which the family was held by the king , Archbishop Neile was able to secure a royal pardon for his son when Sir Paul was indicted for the manslaughter of a carman and other felonies in January 1636 . |
| 12 | Until Wulfhere was able to establish a dominant position for himself among the southern kings ( see below , pp. 114 ff. ) , the evidence suggests a multiplicity of regional overlordships . |
| 13 | This must be not only encouraging but also perturbing as we are only able to accept a small number for tuition . |
| 14 | Provided there is space you will be able to install a traditional-style staircase for access to your loft conversion . |
| 15 | It is of course essential to our readers ' work to be able to compare changing patterns of land use over time , and often to be able to pinpoint a particular feature for various dates during , perhaps , more than a century of the topographic record . |
| 16 | by installing the bath a few inches from the wall , Bill was able to create a tiled ledge for soaps and sponges . |
| 17 | Families in the co-housing group will be able to buy a two-bedroom house for about $160,000 . |
| 18 | More important , fee-paying parents in other areas ( and in schools like Thame ) would no longer be able to buy a grammar-school place for children who had not ‘ passed the scholarship ’ . |
| 19 | They are clearly attracted by the knowledge that they are able to buy a public house for at least 50 per cent to 60 per cent less than in the hectic days of 1989/90 . |
| 20 | The major significance of the Government 's changes is highlighted by the fact that , whereas SERPS held out the prospect of guaranteeing every pensioner an income above the supplementary pension level , no Government minister had felt able to give a similar guarantee for the Thatcher pension reform . |
| 21 | Yet Richard , who always put each section of his life , when it was finished with , quietly behind him , and liked to be able to give a rational explanation for everything , could not account for this , his attachment to Lord Jim . |
| 22 | A notice of severance or declaration of trust whilst being effective in equity , would have no effect on the register unless it was completed by an application to register a restriction so that the register shows that the survivor of the former two joint tenants is no longer able to give a valid receipt for capital monies ( see Precedent 14 ) . |
| 23 | It also draws attention to the setting-up in Scotland , after the vote on devolution , of the Tertiary Education Council with the responsibility for advising on the whole of the further education sector there , and notes that no comparable body is able to do a similar service for Wales . |
| 24 | An inquest will be opened shortly to formally identify the dead man but it will be some weeks before the police accident investigation unit is able to offer a complete explanation for the crash . |
| 25 | We have not yet come across anyone who has been able to offer a reasonable explanation for a rather disheartening introduction to diving . |
| 26 | The same behaviour operates in reverse : if the real wage rate is regarded as abnormally low , they will withdraw some of their labour services in the knowledge that they will be able to command a higher reward for their labour services when real wages return to normal . |
| 27 | The flexibility of the school focused secondment programme was fully demonstrated during the following year , when the secondee was able to develop a new programme for work experience ( with Partnership involvement ) and explore the feasibility of Compact , again with a full contribution from the partnership . |
| 28 | Finally , there are a few killers that have been able to develop a special tolerance for certain poisons , enabling them to eat the noxious prey without ill-effects . |
| 29 | This should increase the probability that a review committee will be able to approve a lower budget for a given output than if the bureau were a monopoly supplier . |
| 30 | Instead , you have to take a long-term view , realising that although you can not enjoy them as fresh flowers for very long , you will be able to admire a beautiful picture for many years to come . |