Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way many fans were able to miss out the first graduation step and serve a short probation at the back of the terrace . |
| 2 | Last December , member states were only able to agree over a transitional VAT arrangement , which according to a high-ranking Commission official amounted to a failure . |
| 3 | ‘ We would never have a Labour government able to carry out a Labour programme — even when that programme had won far more votes than any of the other parties . ’ |
| 4 | During the debate Roy Hattersley , the deputy leader , argued that it would be ‘ historic folly ’ for Labour to back proportional representation ; inevitable coalitions would mean that ‘ we would never again have a Labour government that was able to carry out a Labour programme ’ . |
| 5 | The librarian may be able to carry out a relevant literature search . |
| 6 | The organization 's ship , the MV Greenpeace , was eventually able to carry out a limited monitoring of oil slicks , with Iranian scientists and military personnel on board . |
| 7 | Evaluation by achievement Performance measurement was carried out after each series of courses , by means of examination of each student 's list of references , in order to see whether the students were able to carry out a practical literature search . |
| 8 | William III , helped by the ‘ Protestant wind ’ that kept the English navy pinned in harbour while William 's Dutch fleet could choose a convenient place to land , was able to carry out a successful invasion with quite a substantial military force , so the events of the 1680s underlined the possibility that James II might be able to make a successful return from exile . |
| 9 | On April 6th , unbeknown to the Hohenzollern Crown Prince , he was asking Crown Prince Rupprecht whether his Sixth Army might not be able to carry out a swift blow at Arras , against the British Army , whose anticipated ( by Falkenhayn ) relief attack had not yet materialised . |
| 10 | Most commentators , from the 1968 Select Committee onwards , argue that HM Inspectorate should not expand to the extent that it is able to carry out a full programme of regular inspections ( Hopkins , 1982 , is an exception ) . |
| 11 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 12 | She was able to carry out the simple reward programme which worked very well and then progressed to rewarding Luke for passing a motion in the lavatory . |
| 13 | Volunteers should be able to carry out the minimal work involved , though some dioceses seem curiously reluctant to accept offers of help of this kind . |
| 14 | The long period of housing the stock meant that the farmer was able to carry out the necessary work in the mornings and evenings . |
| 15 | Mrs Howard said : ‘ Unless we are given a lot more resources we will not be able to carry out the weekly monitoring required . |
| 16 | Once you begin to understand some of the antecedent events that control your own eating behaviour you will be able to plan out a positive approach , by working out those antecedent events most likely to lead to success . |
| 17 | Whilst we 're able to implement quite a considerable proportion of the er , objectives without any financial commitment , this particular er , issue does erm , provide us with a considerable test , and members need to know that in order to achieve the move from residential care to community care , we would have to have some ring-fence monies to be able , to enable that shift to , to take place , before the erm , the budget could be reduced on the residential side . |
| 18 | Many highly evolved species protect their fry from being eaten , as the parents are more able to drive away a would-be predator . |
| 19 | Later today we shall be able to debate further the great improvement in standards that we are achieving as a result of our reforms . |
| 20 | ‘ And Mama has written to say how grateful she is that we 'll be able to see how the old house has stood up to the war and cope with any disasters for her . ’ |
| 21 | If that standard was implemented in the city we would be able to designate almost the entire area of north Belfast , ’ he claimed . |
| 22 | As white lesbians , because of our racism , we had not been able to work out a joint analysis of heterosexism with Black lesbian workers , because we had no knowledge of the implications and ramifications of heterosexism in their lives . |
| 23 | I figured that if I asked for a transfer I 'd either get a rise or would be able to work out a better deal for myself if I went elsewhere . |
| 24 | For example , if you were able to work out a new method of organizing stock shelves so that components were more quickly available to people on the factory floor this would show perfectly that you ‘ are able to show initiative ’ . |
| 25 | Graham Sharpe organiser says there is nowhere else in the world where two legs can race against four and pick up fourteen thousand pounds in prize money if they win … he explains that the horse has been beaten once by a mountain bike three years ago but they 've never been able to work out a winning formula |
| 26 | Hence , one may be able to work out the broad effect of interdependencies once and for all when the strategy is set . |
| 27 | An account of society in terms of practices which may ‘ complement ’ or ‘ undermine ’ each other is therefore potentially able to provide both a social theory , and a theory of history , since it gives us a way of analysing the relations between practices at a particular time and the conditions in which they change . |
| 28 | The initial inducement may not be taken by customers to imply the normal credit terms , or if it is , the firm 's credit managers may eventually be able to rein back the actual credit period taken to the planned one month . |
| 29 | They were able to drum up a great deal of press and radio material on the sorry plight of British beer . |
| 30 | I very much hope that the hospital to which the hon. Gentleman referred will be able to consolidate further the remarkable progress that it has made over the past couple of years — a 56 per cent . |