Example sentences of "[is] able [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's able to talk about her feelings and fears to a counseller from Victim Support . |
| 2 | I do n't support this blanket band of reducing surplus places for the sake of reducing surplus places , like the district auditor , and if quote right , it 's an accountant looking at erm , looking at figures and nothing else , and I think that is the problem with the issue , erm , we 've seen in other schools , in larger schools , where they 've developed erm , classrooms into a decent library , or resource area , but in the , in the , in the overall spectrum they 're still counted as classroom spaces , and if that classroom was put back er in , into a class , the school would suffer environmentally , because that school would have no library facilities , no resource facilities which it 's able to appreciate at the present time . |
| 3 | It seems he 's able to lay on steak and kidney pudding . |
| 4 | To help him pass a large , firm stool , make sure he 's able to push with both feet : put a small step in front of the loo if his feet do n't touch the floor . |
| 5 | We hope to rejoin Nick Harris in a few minutes , we hope he 's able to speak with manager , Brian Horton or perhaps one or two of the players . |
| 6 | It 's able to work with WordPerfect Editor and supports ASCII and X Windows concurrently . |
| 7 | And while Jo 's able to shrug off the speculation , she can understand why Craig , who 's just as down-to-earth , might shun the limelight . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , we still have relatively little idea of how the child is able to move from a practical understanding of how , for example , objects change location as a result of actions performed by people , to the more abstract and general understanding of semantic categories such as agent , action and object , which provide the basis for early syntax ( Bowerman 1976 ) . |
| 9 | Through the relationship , the counsellor is able to explore with the counsellee all the feelings , especially the negative feelings of inadequacy , guilt and worthlessness , which they harbour about themselves . |
| 10 | UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF SOCIALISM EVERY MAN WHO LEAVES THE PATH OF LABOUR IS ABLE TO RETURN TO USEFUL ACTIVITY . |
| 11 | Herodotus 's Histories and Aeschylus 's Agamemnon serve as touchstones for Brooke-Rose 's novel , for in going back to the classical period , it is able to return to the point at which these distinctions began to be associated with different ways of talking and writing attributed to fact and to fiction . |
| 12 | Your Committee have appointed Mr D H Young as Acting Honorary Secretary until Ken Lucas is able to return to duty . |
| 13 | Ported to ANDF via the relevant producer , an application — and there are distinct parallels between operating systems and applications in the ANDF scheme of things says Praxis — is able to execute on any platform with an ANDF installer , which allows the code to be compiled . |
| 14 | Whichever side of the transaction you represent , as soon as you 've dispatched or received replies to requisitions ( you ca n't do so before , because you wo n't know what the other side wants or is able to give on completion ) , complete the three agendas " before completion " , " completion " and " after completion " . |
| 15 | The question , in short , is , what confers objectivity upon such spatial intuitions ? — and the only answer that Kant is able to give to this is : " The universal validity and necessity of geometrical propositions . " |
| 16 | Pending discovery and/or the administration of interrogatories the best particulars the plaintiff is able to give of such transactions is that the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in each and every transaction of which the following payments and each of them represent the proceeds of such transactions namely : … |
| 17 | You can work out the number of fish a pond is able to support from the surface area and size of fish . |
| 18 | Children love to discover that they can ‘ do ’ something new , and through the provision that is made and suggestions that are offered , each child is able to succeed at his own level . |
| 19 | He is totally aware that he is able to cope with every situation . |
| 20 | How well he is able to cope with the situation will depend partly on his age at the time and partly on how carefully the adults around him handle the situation . |
| 21 | But if the female is able to cope with all or part of this added maternal burden she can , of course , contribute even more spectacularly to the feline population explosion . |
| 22 | This saw is able to cope with both timber and hidden metal |
| 23 | Access areas such as halls , landings , conservatories and stairs need a floorcovering that is able to cope with heavy traffic and maybe dirty shoes . |
| 24 | Because narrative is able to cope with these problems , it is often enlisted by the human mind to work through logically impossible situations . |
| 25 | One factor that unites all of these theories is that no computational system exists which is able to cope with unrestricted English . |
| 26 | A group of twenty young girls showed how each is able to cope in her own way using apparatus to musical accompaniment — on this occasion they handled balls , hoops , ribbons and twisters and very well too ! ! |
| 27 | Because of the many opportunities that a designer has of seeing many types and design of kitchen equipment in action , he is able to pick for his client the best type and design for the job in hand . |
| 28 | For illustrative purposes , he uses the example of another similar manufacturer ( whose identity , he reports , he must keep secret ) who is able to conform to a one p.p.m zinc requirement . |
| 29 | In this way the child 's performance is continually sustained by the adult who , almost paradoxically , is always seeking to withdraw so that the child is able to participate in interactions as an independent and autonomous individual . |
| 30 | This effectively prevents water-loss by evaporation through the skin , though the animal must doubtless lose some moisture by breathing , which it is able to do through tiny tubes attached to its nostrils and opening through the membrane . |