Example sentences of "[adv] able [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because women are largely con fined to jobs with low status and power , they will be relatively less able to engage in serious forms of white-collar and corporate crime . |
| 2 | getting intoxicated is always potentially dangerous : people may become more reckless than usual and be less able to deal with danger |
| 3 | The main message seems to be that women , for whatever reason , are less able to aspire to higher spiritual states than men . |
| 4 | In the solid ( below the glass transition or in the crystalline state ) the " spaghetti " is somewhat less able to slide about than it is in the liquid state . |
| 5 | What is certain ( see Chapter 14 ) is that the fetus can respond to inputs from its mother which show a 24-hour period , whereas the newborn baby — particularly when premature — is much less able to respond to 24-hour rhythms in this new environment . |
| 6 | Often it is girls from already deprived backgrounds who end up in such circumstances , and who are less able to cope on their own . |
| 7 | You will probably be less able to cope with the pressures of life ; the ability to cope and be relaxed does not come easily to a body that indulges in too little physical activity and is unhealthy . |
| 8 | Dr Joseph Miller , a clinical ecologist working in Alabama , writes : ‘ These patients are not basically neurotic , but they are less able to cope with daily problems because their symptoms distract and bewilder them . |
| 9 | The second type of explanation suggests that these people have some sort of defect that makes them less able to cope with environmental chemicals . |
| 10 | In the country generally , two-thirds of those are in the C2 , DE categories , which by any socio-economic definition will be the less prosperous end of the market and less able to cope with rises of 17.5 per cent eventually in the cost of a basic part of the household budget . |
| 11 | Without the republicans the Labour left would have remained abstract propagandists ; without the Labour left , the republicans would have been less able to communicate to people in Derry and beyond . |
| 12 | We all acknoweldge that they provide an important service , especially for the elderly and those less able to get to the larger stores during the week . ’ |
| 13 | Women at the time did n't yet have the vote , and they made arguments about women being more dependent people , less able to fight for themselves , more in need of the protection of the state , which in some cases did not actually distinguish women from men in the same industries . |
| 14 | You body wo n't turn as much as it did before , you get tired more quickly , you 're less able to concentrate for long periods and have to allow for more errors . |
| 15 | After 1848 , the Tsar 's forces were , relative to his rivals , increasingly technically backward ; he was less and less able to intervene as gendarme . |
| 16 | It 's not necessarily anti-male prejudice — men are more likely to be full-time at work and less able to look after the kids . |
| 17 | Those cuts mean that regions such as south Wales will be less able to compete with other regions in Europe than they are now . |
| 18 | But , insurers point out , this may make them less able to compete against other financial institutions . |
| 19 | She was apparently able to win at will , despite a strong challenge from Raul Gardini 's Passage of Venice . |
| 20 | Ed : In the space available , G. B. Carter was only able to touch on some aspects of CBDE 's work . |
| 21 | The hearing at Berwick-upon-Tweed , Northumberland , was told Mr Tipping ( 34 ) , of Cobham , Surrey , was unable to open either his main or reserve parachute — but witnesses were only able to speculate about the reasons for this . |
| 22 | Consequently , such marketing boards have frequently found themselves in a price squeeze , unable to offer a price high enough to producers , but only able to sell to consumers at a loss . |
| 23 | He too was only able to relax in the heart of the country , seeking its isolation instinctively , just as Vincent did , and like him unable to breathe freely inside any mainstream . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , I was only able to get to the Newbury Rally for one day this year . |
| 25 | The sodium is only able to pass into the membrane through sodium ion channels distributed along the axon . |
| 26 | Desperate to contact Molly , who is unable to see or hear him , Sam discovers that he is only able to communicate with a psychic named Oda Mae Brown ( Whoopee Goldberg ) , a charlatan astonished to discover her powers are authentic . |
| 27 | The plaintiffs were ultimately only able to complete on the basis of the terms subsequently offered by the bank which were financially disadva disadvantageous and effectively deprived the business of any chance of surviving because of the lack of operating capital and er many of the losses which are set out on page sixty two erm are based on that intention and are dealt with er in full |
| 28 | He was assessed as only able to work at 50 per cent of the rate for the job and only half his wages were paid under the scheme . |
| 29 | Mark Appleson trained yesterday but following his back spasm last weekend , took no contact and was only able to run in straight lines . |
| 30 | Badly lamed and afterwards only able to walk with the help of a stick , Patterson was no longer of use to the Navy . |