Example sentences of "[adv] able [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more instructions , more and more complex in their nature descended more and more frequently upon local offices , but without any adequately effective co-ordination at the Headquarters level to ensure that those in the outfield had a clear enough idea of what their order of priorities should be as they became less and less able to deal effectively with the totality of their responsibilities . |
| 2 | This can also become a vicious circle ; the drain on their emotional reserves means that some people feel less able to cope physically , which , in turn , contributes to a further drain on both emotional and physical resources . |
| 3 | As we do this we are less and less able to act positively as we resort to distractions and procrastination to prevent us dealing with what we have suppressed and keep our minds as quiet as possible . |
| 4 | Particularly when the ability to be rational about specific issues becomes diverted into a petulant or punitive attitude , and one can not trust oneself to ‘ keep one 's cool ’ , yet the feelings demand expression , it may be easier to ‘ blow up ’ with those who seem less able to hit back effectively . |
| 5 | One reading of this situation is that society 's thought patterns are developing in an anarchic fashion , with their adherents less able to communicate meaningfully with each other . |
| 6 | Caring for him became an almost full-time job because he could do so little for himself ; and it was difficult for Mary and Jim to go out together , especially as her father grew less able to get around , and he needed a great deal of help at home . |
| 7 | The tucuxi is , however only half the length of the boto , and is thus less able to break out of gill-nets when captured . |
| 8 | We find ourselves less able to think dearly as the oxygen intake diminishes and our panic therefore becomes greater . |
| 9 | If , as frequently occurs , unpleasant symptoms arise as the result of the stress — the heart races , the stomach feels as though someone has tied a knot in it — we become so aware of these sensations that we are even less able to function well . |
| 10 | At least part of the explanation of this was , however , the efficiency of the National Grid 's integrated programme of power station planning and operation , with which smaller private generating stations were less and less able to compete economically as the 1950s progressed . |
| 11 | There is a a colossal amount of inconsistency er of a kind that if we were to practice such inconsistency in our courts there would be there would be absolute outcry and it 's it 's something of a scandal I think that er that the police and the executive generally are apparently able to get away with inconsistencies which we are not . |
| 12 | It is a view held not only by expert bodies and individuals but also by a substantial proportion of the general public who are not necessarily able to explain why and how this process takes place . |
| 13 | Today 's training exercise was only able to go ahead because of an emergency packing operation which has been set up at the base . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , the place is filthy and we are only able to clean up superficially . ’ |
| 15 | and he would be only able to pick out a lot of the basic words , he could probably pick out the beginning of appreciation |
| 16 | Since unveiling the machine , they said , the division was only able to sell perhaps 40 systems , leaving 800 or 900 units warehoused and unsold in Mount Laurel , New Jersey , and another 200-odd unsold units out with software houses around the country . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One girl said that she had been unable to breathe , and was only able to do so when she covered her face with a pillow . |
| 19 | At present the Tate is only able to show about 1,000 works at any one time out of its 5,105 paintings and sculptures ( plus 30,000 works on paper ) . |
| 20 | But filmmakers were only able to rise so impressively to the challenge because of what had happened in the preceding decade . |
| 21 | ‘ Staff are only able to provide very basic care and their ability to treat seriously ill and malnourished children is severely limited , ’ the Belfast doctor added . |
| 22 | As the case study of Channel Four ( see below ) amply demonstrates , concerned groups and individuals attempted to keep these services out of the competitive struggle between the two giants of broadcasting in the hope that they would be better able to serve previously excluded minority groups in society . |
| 23 | Because the elite , through their superior wealth , are better able to live up to the so-called modern values , which are all the more costly to support because of their external source , they are further differentiated from the poor . |
| 24 | The simplest one is that the world would be a better place if people were better able to talk coherently about the many language problems which arise in contemporary society . |
| 25 | The authority is wiser and therefore better able to establish how the individual should act . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , he was probably better able to communicate directly with his people than were most other African leaders — more so , for example , than neighbouring nationalist leaders like Samora Machel in Mozambique , Milton Obote in Uganda or Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia . |
| 27 | The reason for this , according to the second of the two studies just cited , is that " large firms … had more rationalised hiring systems and were better able to identify when temporary workers could be used efficiently " . |
| 28 | Improved diet would have reduced death rates primarily because well fed people are better able to fight off infectious disease . |
| 29 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 30 | These involve creating conditions in which individuals may be better able to interact cooperatively with each other : they are wide- ranging , time-consuming , and unpredictable , because of the sheer range of human differences . |