Example sentences of "is able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the relationship , the counsellor is able to explore with the counsellee all the feelings , especially the negative feelings of inadequacy , guilt and worthlessness , which they harbour about themselves . |
| 2 | Herodotus 's Histories and Aeschylus 's Agamemnon serve as touchstones for Brooke-Rose 's novel , for in going back to the classical period , it is able to return to the point at which these distinctions began to be associated with different ways of talking and writing attributed to fact and to fiction . |
| 3 | You can work out the number of fish a pond is able to support from the surface area and size of fish . |
| 4 | He is totally aware that he is able to cope with every situation . |
| 5 | How well he is able to cope with the situation will depend partly on his age at the time and partly on how carefully the adults around him handle the situation . |
| 6 | They are written in terms of what the student is able to demonstrate as a result of learning rather than in terms of what a student will have to do to achieve the competences . |
| 7 | Both authors argue for a stylistic analysis that recognises the inherently dialogic nature of all kinds of discourse , and that is able to discriminate between the multiplicity of voices and ideological accents that characterise not only the language of the novel , but also that of poetry and drama . |
| 8 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 9 | Where an innocent purchaser is able to rely upon an estoppel , property in the goods passes to him in the normal way , i.e. as if his seller himself has good title to give . |
| 10 | He is able to draw on a wealth of experience and he has attacked all his duties with surprisingly youthful enthusiasm , tempered with a great deal of patience . |
| 11 | A pen ( or stylus ) is able to draw on the LCD-screen and be shown as electronic ink . |
| 12 | Then the duplicate breaks free and is able to act as a mould in its own right . |
| 13 | Sodium nitroprusside is able to act as a donor of NO . |
| 14 | The above fee scale does not cover any other assistance KPMG is able to provide within the field of M&A support . |
| 15 | On each of these points he is able to expand as the result of more detailed observation into which he also introduces his own speculations , as in " it has been broke of [ sic ] through a natural cause because of the texture " . |
| 16 | The analyst is able to understand in a way that subjects can not , what is ‘ objectively possible ’ for a class consciousness at a particular point in history . |
| 17 | Each stage of processing is able to contribute to the score of each reading . |
| 18 | In this way the patient 's confidence grows during the course of the single session and he is able to bring to the forefront of his mind the relevant period in his life . |
| 19 | The flexibility introduced into the system by the carriers means that each group is able to operate with a degree of autonomy . |
| 20 | The description of feelings and emotions are so well portrayed that the reader is able to feel with the character at every twist and turn of their lives . |
| 21 | The loss ( i. e. the amount to be deducted ) is the difference between the price the buyer had agreed to pay and the lower price which the seller is able to get on a re-sale elsewhere . |
| 22 | His reference to faith may explain how it is that he is able to conceive of the notion of absolute Truth which he calls God . |
| 23 | In his notion of a ‘ school-based community development corporation ‘ , he is able to build upon a situation which is politically , financially and organisationally more community-directed than we have here ; school boards in the States offer parents and local people considerable power over educational provision , a power in the real sense which is not available to us in Britain , even at community council level . |
| 24 | Thus , the child 's language is not sampled directly but , as it were , by proxy in terms of what the teacher or therapist is able to recall of the child 's performance under everyday conditions . |
| 25 | Now , the last thing I want to say , because I know we , our guest is here , and so presumably has collected his thoughts and is able to leap into the breach , the last thing I want to say on this is , writing articles , writing pieces , is a game , another area where practice makes perfect . |
| 26 | The baby is able to walk after an hour and to keep up with the herd when it is on the move , but it is nonetheless very unsteady on its feet and needs continual help . |
| 27 | The threat in schools is posed by the degree of control which the executive is able to exert over the education of children , or rather by the possibility that the power to dictate ( by inclusion or exclusion ) the content of education could be abused by a government with extreme views . |
| 28 | The area office plays a prominent part in what a field officer is able to learn of the job . |
| 29 | For example , when a child is playing so destructively with a toy that it is likely to break , if the natural consequence occurs and the toy breaks , the child is able to learn from the outcome of his/her actions . |
| 30 | It takes 12 Britons to do the work of nine Germans or of eight Japanese , which suggests that a good many more redundancies will have to be declared before British industry is able to compete on the world markets . |