Example sentences of "are [adv] able [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | L. Stettner quotes Sachs : She quotes also from other studies to show that these co-operatives are better able to survive under adversity than are conventionally organised plywood manufacturing firms , and why : in a phrase , higher productivity , so much higher as to result in some cases in value added per labour-hour of more than twice that of those firms . |
| 2 | ‘ Countries such as Hungary , Poland , Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria are already able to apply for observer status before becoming , in due course , parties to the Pharmacopoeia Corporation ’ . |
| 3 | Corpus-based systems are easily able to deal with punctuation . |
| 4 | At present , this option is not available under SSAP 15 , with the result that companies are not able to take into account , at the time the provisions for the obligations are set up , the tax relief that will be received when the benefits are actually paid . |
| 5 | Sir Charles also operates a miniature health service , employing a salaried apothecary who ‘ dispenses physic to all his tenants , who are not able to pay for advice ; nor are the poor who are not his tenants , refused ’ , provided they are recommended by the clergyman . |
| 6 | By contrast , policemen are interested only in what happened on one particular occasion in the past , which they are not able to recreate in laboratory conditions if only because they do not know what happened . |
| 7 | Most institutions are also able to draw on hardship funds of their own , of course . |
| 8 | This is processor-independent stuff , according to Heath , who says most Reduced Instruction Set Computing architectures already share common notions in these areas and most are now able to deal with software that is written to either Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering styles . |
| 9 | This is processor-independent stuff , according to Heath , who says most Reduced Instruction Set Computing ( RISC ) architectures already share common notions in these areas and most are now able to deal with software that is written to either Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering styles . |
| 10 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 11 | And there was enough interest in the sale to prove that home grown Hereford cattle are well able to beat off competition from abroad . |
| 12 | Teenage mothers are least able to cope with motherhood , being often themselves emotionally immature and sometimes physically immature ( Russell 1981 ) . |