Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If non-farming activities reach the VAT registration threshold , farmers will be required to register for all their activities , farming and non-farming , and will not be able to carry on as flat rate farmers . |
| 2 | It is hoped that social scientists will not only be able to carry out with greater ease and rapidity those types of computation previously undertaken on mainframe computers but that they may also be able to take advantage of the machines ’ ability to handle graphical information . |
| 3 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 4 | ‘ It must be hell having a woman like Gwen and not to be able to strut around in public possession . |
| 5 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |
| 6 | Jane McLoughlin also met an ex-hacker who , since his self-cure , had been able to look back with some pleasure at his early hacking day 's : ‘ I 'd kick that machine of mine into life , sing a snatch of Yes . |
| 7 | Employees will no longer be able to opt out of cashless pay systems . |
| 8 | In the past , fisheries have been able to start up without adequate information about either the target stock or its role in ocean ecology . |
| 9 | The answer is that these deceptions have to fool all possible predators and while some may be able to tune in to one detail others may have a searching-image for something quite different . |
| 10 | Indeed far from being fearful of continued public objection , local authorities should be more concerned about their ability to be able to keep up with public demand for calming various residential areas once the ideas take off . |
| 11 | So our belief is that erm with the relationship we 've been able to build up in this city , with confrontation and community participation , with the targeting of the small resources that we do have , as a council in collaboration with the other , the resources of the other bodies , that we can in fact do something . |
| 12 | He would never be able to settle down to married life like a suburban husband . |
| 13 | Charles would never be able to settle down to married life like a suburban husband . |
| 14 | With these five factors examined and the results of preliminary thinking kept in mind , the teacher or the planning team will be able to settle down to detailed planning of the specific learning sequence in question , whether it is a short piece of structured work with a work-sheet , tape-slide sequence or programmed unit , or whether it occupies several weeks of varied work . |
| 15 | What I would n't give , I thought , to be able to lie down on that bed , just for a minute . |
| 16 | The Regional Council has just completed the provision of the first phase of access and servicing to the site , and is able to offer up to 4 development plots for sale or lease . |
| 17 | The Isle of Wight SSD sees care management as a progression of practice rather than management , with care managers able to transfer back into social work posts . |
| 18 | When first seen at the homoeopathic clinic , he was just able to get around with one tripod . |
| 19 | And if that 's gon na happen then how are women gon na be able to get on into higher education |
| 20 | However , they will not be able to get through to any polytechnic or college in the country . |
| 21 | One of the easiest ways to regain your freedom is to use a sling — you 'll be able to get about on public transport and visit shops and restaurants without the cumbersome trappings of a buggy or pram . |
| 22 | This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo . |
| 23 | The Newcastle-based steel fabricator and erector contracted to carry out the steelwork went into receivership early in the operation but fortunately Bone , Connel & Baxters of Motherwell was able to take over at short notice and , says Alan Muir , ‘ did a great job ’ . |
| 24 | Under these circumstances the parents need to be able to take over from each other so that it is the child who tires and not the parents . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're forgetting about my interest in a bush walk , ’ she pointed out , thankful to be able to latch on to some aspect of the place . |
| 26 | Very nice to be able to step out of used underwear and know it would be laundered and returned to its drawer pressed and scented , even better never to have to worry about clearing a table or washing up , but nevertheless there was something vaguely disconcerting about maids who went silently , sneakily about their duties under her very nose . |
| 27 | I wanted to have that control in the studio , being able to step in at any moment . ’ |
| 28 | If its cost effectiveness was equal to that of the average police authority , it would be able to recruit up to full establishment . |