Example sentences of "[is] able [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through verbal mediation it is able to fix some of the criteria applied and something of the meaning extracted in the perception of art . |
| 2 | By listening to her children 's language ( which , to quote T S Eliot , ‘ is the fluid in which all else is suspended ’ ) the teacher is able to go some way in interpreting their individual levels of development and maturation . |
| 3 | In this way it is able to release some of its hunting or fleeing energy and to feel more relaxed again . |
| 4 | All those who pay income tax are eligible to sign a Covenant and at the end of each year the Church is able to recover some of the tax . |
| 5 | Jensen 's PEG system ‘ is able to make some kind of syntactic sense out of any decent English sentence ’ . |
| 6 | Where counselling is able to discuss some of these feelings it can have a more positive potential effect on elderly health than the tranquillizers and sedatives which are too readily and too frequently dispensed for older people who are sick . |
| 7 | Similarly , although King ( 1985 ) is able to identify some links between the Leeds Chamber of Commerce and the council 's developing economic strategy in the 1970s , they do not develop fully until the 1980s , and the links identified seem to be more of form , in terms of meetings and forums for discussion , rather than of detailed negotiation . |
| 8 | Rhodes , by focusing on shifts within the organizational structures of the state , is able to identify some reasons for longer-term stability , but is less able to explain the extent of change since the late 1960s . |