Example sentences of "able [verb] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when Sir Alfred enlisted the help of his sister , Jean Stanley ( wife of Louis ) was BRM able to proceed for the 1962 season . |
| 2 | Only when these key steps have been taken will government and individuals alike be able to plan for the long term , instead of focusing on the short term and the next election . |
| 3 | If the budget worsens after revenue-yielding tariffs have been reduced , governments may not be able to wait for the longer term trade gains to emerge to replace the lost revenue . |
| 4 | It is even possible that if you decide to set up your own business , you may be able to claim for the initial costs of this . |
| 5 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 6 | This caused a delay of nine minutes , but play was able to restart for the last couple of overs . |
| 7 | Duchamp-Villon and La Fresnaye were also members of the hanging committee , so that the Cubist painters were able to exhibit for the second time that year as a group . |
| 8 | If you have a weekend free , you can do what many west Berliners are now able to do for the first time since 1952 — simple drive into the country and enjoy the landscape of Brandenburg . |
| 9 | And if Oliver had betrayed him , as he had betrayed all the others , what would she have been able to do for the Chartist candidate then ? |
| 10 | They will not stop a single person who is not in one of those categories from being able to qualify for the single person household discount . |
| 11 | In addition graduates will be able to compete for the conventional careers open to geologists . |
| 12 | By abandoning any logic of progress for the negative synthesis of anti-labour which produces deviation , Sartre is , on the other hand , able to account for the major detour that provides the context for his whole debate with Merleau-Ponty , and indeed for all post-war Marxism : the spectre of Stalinism . |
| 13 | Chomsky states that grammar must be based on two things : observation of language ability to satisfy the native speaker 's intuition about his language For example , it must be able to account for the native speaker 's intuition that active or passive sentences are related to each other ; that some pairs of sentences , though alike on the surface , are different at a deeper level . |
| 14 | cut in defence expenditure , which means that there is not the slightest chance of his being able to pay for the extra boat . |
| 15 | UNESCO however is unlikely to able to pay for the full cost of the restoration programme and intends to enlist aid from other international agencies . |