Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opted-out hospitals will not be able to borrow on the capital markets or pay junior staff more than other hospitals . |
| 2 | And for e for emplo for employment officers you would have induction , you would have interviewing skills , and you would say you know , we would also we 'd be able to see of the training records , what interviewing courses |
| 3 | With home shopping out of the way , Pitcher will be able to concentrate on the football pools and high street retailing . |
| 4 | This way the computer complexities will be removed , and personnel people will be able to concentrate upon the management issues of implementation , such as staff consultations , training , and requirements definition . |
| 5 | What he meant was they might be able to come off the building sites , and fall into a featherbed job , one in which they could wear nice suits and drive fancy cars , in return for looking after one very rich old man 's ‘ interests ’ . |
| 6 | Some comments could be dealt with readily by changes to the draft statutory instruments but others were not so easy to resolve as they raise more fundamental questions and in these cases my officials were able to explore with the auditing practices board , whether issues could be more easily addressed in the statement of auditing standards which is being developed to accompany the legislation than in the statutory instruments themselves . |
| 7 | Both Crook and NUJ officials were able to participate in the settlement negotiations , conducted with the help of the European Commission , which led to the drafting of s159 . |
| 8 | Pupils with special educational needs should therefore be able to participate in the attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment arrangements , subject where appropriate to the modifications we recommend below . |
| 9 | Ordinary people might at times come to the outer part of a temple and were able to participate in the festival processions . |
| 10 | I look forward to hearing from you , and very much hope that you are able to help with the back issues . |
| 11 | She believes that she was able to smile through the pain thanks to qualities she inherited from her mother . |
| 12 | Now if the protracted labour and gestation period ever does give birth to a new set of regulations governing player registration in England , the likes of Shelford will not be able to play in the rugby competitions in this country . |
| 13 | An NLA session on Nov. 25 gave the proposals a second reading after agreeing to drop most of the controversial provisions , including the right of the Senate to participate in the selection of the Prime Minister and other important issues , but senators would still be able to vote on no confidence motions . |
| 14 | He must , if necessary ( and many children manage this ) , become bilingual , able to switch as the occasion demands between what may be virtually or actually two languages . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Thanks to the new rules , commercial banks will soon be able to compete with the merchant banks on the same terms . |
| 17 | If they are dissatisfied with the school or education authority , they will be able to call in the Education Standards Commission and get action taken . |
| 18 | Counter-mining would be impossible given their shortage of powder ; at best they might be able to break into the enemy mines and fight it out hand-to-hand . |
| 19 | Furthermore , he contests , costs at the company have gone up for the simple reason that it has moved into different areas of activity — IBM simply made the mistake of trying to be ‘ all things to all people ’ , and so will never be able to return to the profit levels of the mid-1980s . |