Example sentences of "[is] able [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now at last , after five Swans LPs and two previous Skin outings , he 's able to see relief beyond the masochistic joy he takes from brutality , violence and neglect . |
| 2 | Now at last , after five Swans LPs and two previous Skin outings , he 's able to see relief beyond the masochistic joy he takes from brutality , violence and neglect . |
| 3 | Seen to be an ‘ effect ’ of the Universal or Unified Field , it is able to transmit energy patterns from one natural source to another and give rise to a physical formation of those patterns — in other words , the field is believed to be the agent for creation , growth and development throughout nature . |
| 4 | Interestingly , pou[c] is able to stimulate initiation of adenovirus DNA replication in vitro ( C.P.Verrijzer and P.C.van der Vliet , personal communication ) suggesting that this ability may also be a general feature of POU domain proteins . |
| 5 | Through the love and compassion of Jesus the missionary is able to return time after time until this love has broken through and the message is accepted . |
| 6 | This is a language , a world view , a form of life perhaps , wherein one of the principal reasons for according praise to a type of art is that it is able to give voice to a politics ; Bolshevism in the main case , though as Callinicos acknowledges , one of the salient points about Modernism was its ‘ ambiguity , its capacity to express a variety of different political positions ’ ; that is , when it was not engaged on its more usual ‘ flight from politics ’ ( p. 161 ) . |
| 7 | God is sovereign , and he is able to give value to the performance according to his purposes . |
| 8 | The enhanced gdb debugger , integrated with the browser which is able to represent code structure and class relationships graphically , can reportedly debug multiple C and C++ programs simultaneously . |
| 9 | ‘ it assumes that since Satan is able to use culture to his ends , all of culture is evil . |
| 10 | He is able to use capital productively because he can buy the workers ' labour power and the price he pays is the subsistence wage . |
| 11 | He is able to talk man to man with the Chartist delegates , in the confidence that his family has worked through many generations for the common good — building churches and bridges , making roads , digging mines , planting trees , and draining marshland . |
| 12 | It is able to recycle material which is now being expensively destroyed in incinerators or dumped into the sea , where it may act as a source of marine pollution . |
| 13 | It is splendid news that Mr Smith is able to renounce socialism and even better that Gordon Brown and Tony Blair and even wee Nigel Griffiths are going to pursue the ugly connections between Tory plutocrats and regulations that block the free market . |
| 14 | Thus , without innervation , the muscle ‘ knows ’ the location of the normal NMJ sites and is able to restrict expression of certain molecules to these specialized membrane regions ; definition of NMJ sites is independent of innervation . |
| 15 | I hope that the Minister is able to deny newspaper reports about the Government 's attitude to safety . |
| 16 | During the two phases of Pilot schemes , which were essentially experimental , detailed policy could only be formulated for the short term but , as the new system is becoming established , this letter is able to state policy for a longer period . |
| 17 | The technique of P-postlabelling is more sensitive and is able to detect DNA adducts without any previous knowledge of their chemical structure . |
| 18 | In situ hybridisation offers a unique means to overcome most of these problems because it is able to detect mRNA sequences within cells and therefore allows precise localisation within histological preparations . |
| 19 | The resulting plasmid , pPYACRC5 ( Fig. 1 ) , carries all sequences from pYACRC and is able to transform yeast AB1380 spheroplasts as other YAC vectors . |
| 20 | Thus having first laid down a basis of material being , material forms , forces , existences in which it seems to be lying inconscient , though in reality , as we know always subconsciously at work , it is able to manifest life and living beings , to manifest mind and mental beings in a material world , and must therefore be able to manifest their supermind also and supramental beings . |
| 21 | A GYROSTABILISER consists of a small , rapidly spinning , motor-driven flywheel which is able to sense movement of a model about any chosen axis and apply a cancelling movement to the appropriate servo . |
| 22 | There may be social aspects of the visually handicapped pupil 's life at school that can be helped by a perceptive specialist teacher who is able to facilitate communication over matters that a sensitive child or adolescent may be embarrassed to disclose . |
| 23 | Firstly , a small saver is able to minimise risk by investing quite cheaply in a much wider range of assets than would be possible by direct investment . |
| 24 | The results presented above show that the 80 bp promoter fragment binds at least two different factors and that it is able to modulate transcription in both homologous and heterologous constructions . |
| 25 | The Finance office is able to initiate tuition fee invoicing and to maintain a ledger of fees due and received , using its own student management system menus . |
| 26 | If he is able to claim privilege for the document , a copy may be admitted instead of the original . |
| 27 | However , if he is able to continue work as a clerk , no capital sum under item 4 is payable . |
| 28 | A micro-kernel uses inter-process communication and virtual memory and is able to split operating system functions across CPUs or distributed systems . |
| 29 | The Partnership has strong links with other organisations and the teacher placement organiser is able to take advantage of this . |
| 30 | The extent to which a child is able to take advantage of the learning opportunities , which are made available within a particular setting on a day-to-day basis , will be a major factor in influencing how much progress occurs . |