Example sentences of "[noun] able [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , constitutions may of course guarantee nothing if governments are determined to defy them and if there is no recourse to an independent judiciary able to act against unconstitutional practices . |
| 2 | ii European collaboration will help create an industry able to compete with the US . |
| 3 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 4 | For instance , Tarrow hypotheses that where a generally populist strategy is adopted by a broad-based urban-rural coalition able to call on a strong administrative apparatus , social policy may have a general redistributive impact in raising the standard of living in the periphery . |
| 5 | Since 1977 , Audi cars able to run on unleaded petrol have been widely available . |
| 6 | A new association within Federchimica has been formed to try close this gap ; ACFIS ( Association for Fine and Speciality Chemicals ) intends to build an Italian fine chemical sector able to respond to requirements . |
| 7 | AMERITECH AND SINGAPORE TELECOM ABLE TO INVEST IN NORWEGIAN CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS FIRM |
| 8 | It is rare nowadays to find a research council able to live within its means and reasonably happy with its situation , but that is the impression that the Natural Environment Research Council ( NERC ) put over when it launched its annual report . |
| 9 | The Tindemans Report ( 1976 ) recommended a gradual approach towards EMU , and suggested that the countries able to proceed in the direction of monetary union should do so , and others should follow suit later when conditions became more favourable . |
| 10 | The USSR apparently has a lead in radar equipment able to see through clouds . |
| 11 | At moments of crisis a nation needs a leader able to lead in the way Margaret Thatcher led then . |
| 12 | This was the idea , popularised in Shonfield 's Modern Capitalism but covered in a very large number of other works also , that a shift was occurring away from territorially based representation towards representation based on functional cleavages , with a consequent decline in the power of the territorially based representative assemblies known as parliaments and an ever-increasing role for corporatist organisations able to negotiate for organised functional interests at the national level . |
| 13 | Furthermore , any interest group able to threaten in this way probably has a special relationship with a major political party , and is acknowledged as important in that sense . |
| 14 | A new British guitar band able to compete with the Yanks on their terms . |
| 15 | In addition , since the CAB did not succeed when they pressed for the extension of legal aid to cover representation at industrial tribunals , there simply is no other organisation able to take on this work . |
| 16 | There was now greater co-operation with Customs officers on the Continent , with officers able to deal on a personal level with each other rather than at senior status — ensuring a quick and efficient exchange of information . |
| 17 | Many favour using massed war engines to rain doom down on the enemy , while others prefer fast-moving cavalry armies able to respond to any threat . |
| 18 | The first company to build a computer able to perform at 100 million Flops per second ( 100 megaFlops ) , was Cray Research in 1975 . |
| 19 | Anderson 's aim is to produce riders able to compete in the ten-event Grundig World Series . |
| 20 | In Germany Universal banks are the only institutions allowed to conduct securities business , whereas in France only stock exchange members are able to , and the UK is somewhere in between , with both banks and non-bank institutions able to compete for security business . |
| 21 | He is among the least ego-bound of book-writers , the least ego-bound of autobiographers , at all times able to look beyond himself and his community . |
| 22 | Analysis of these projects suggested that if such control were to be achieved , local people would have to acquire the motivation and skills to be able to organize themselves into effective action groups able to negotiate with public authorities . |
| 23 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 24 | No longer are spinning mills able to stand in isolation , they are , as explained by Andrew Steel ‘ In partnership with the Design Studio , exploring new frontiers of design and texture . ’ |
| 25 | As well as qualified psychiatrists and psychologists , the network includes people able to translate for the refugees . |
| 26 | In Susanna Jennens Leapor would have found a woman able to fend for herself in adversity . |
| 27 | Certainly there are exceptions : ( 5 ) Alec 's shoes are real leather Intuition leaves no room for hesitation in taking this as an example of assignment , with leather used purely descriptively , rather than of equation , but the occurrence of the adjective real indicates that leather is nonetheless a noun ( this is no doubt partly possible because the adjective leathern has dropped out of use in modern English , and because leather itself is a mass noun able to occur without a preceding article ) . |
| 28 | Only then were Geoffrey Downes and John Shaa able to go to the Chancery at Winchester on 6th July ; not until 1506 would the Goldsmiths physically possess the income from which the School was to be supported , when Thomas Fereby transferred the deeds of the property to the Company . |
| 29 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 30 | Derbyshire , North Wales and South Wales had about three-quarters of the working wives able to cope on their own . |