Example sentences of "well able [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it is the children themselves who often seem better able to deal with the situation . |
| 2 | These were articulate people , perhaps better able to deal with the press and media than some other families who have found themselves in the same position . |
| 3 | There is nothing shameful in this situation and we will be better able to deal with it if we recognise it . |
| 4 | At the same time , the rate at which information is processed by the brain increases dramatically , making us better able to deal with an emergency . |
| 5 | Job Reviews for staff are now well established , and the training development programmes implemented following the reviews are intended to help all WEC staff become better able to deal with the difficult and competitive trading conditions we face in all markets . |
| 6 | Yet it is Gften argued that the successful adjustment to a major loss makes the person better able to deal with future losses ( e.g. Caplan , 1964 ) . |
| 7 | Those families in which a parent died from an illness known in advance to be terminal seemed to be better able to respond to the needs of their children , and to prepare them for the loss with information and emotional support . |
| 8 | ‘ Many Australians … believe that we will be better able to succeed in the world with the unique and unambiguous identity which an Australian head of state , chosen by the Australian people , could provide , ’ the Prime Minister said to loud cheers from about 500 party members . |
| 9 | By understanding this example you will be better able to set about understanding your own situation and the things that control your own dieting behaviour . |
| 10 | By laying down larger areas of copper track , you will not only make the copper foil pattern better able to adhere to the board , but you will speed up the etching time also . |
| 11 | You will be better able to cope with the stresses and strains of life ; your self-esteem , your psychological and physical competence , should benefit . |
| 12 | Why is it that the Americans seem better able to cope with the idea of a flexible retirement age ? |
| 13 | It is in fact possible that some patients , especially those with marked symptoms of anxiety or depression , benefit from drugs and are better able to cope with their problems as a result , but the size of this group is not known . |
| 14 | John Coon , DG 's UK marketing manager , says Technology will be better able to cope with support , and also has a large stock of peripherals on hand . |
| 15 | An even distribution has an added advantage , the institution will be better able to cope with the Unpredictable . |
| 16 | In some extraordinary manner the children seemed better able to cope with their parents ' injuries when they were well away from the hospital . |
| 17 | ‘ We have experienced the recession in the past and as a result are better able to cope with it . |
| 18 | But it will make you feel better able to cope with what the world is throwing at you and it will give you a better feeling about yourself . ’ |
| 19 | The mother herself may be far more relaxed with her new infant and better able to cope by relying on her own intuition combined with the experience she has already gained . |
| 20 | Every experience we have should make us better able to cope in the future . |
| 21 | This made Clive much better able to relax during the course of the follow-up treatment . |
| 22 | However , legislation late in the century provided a new local government structure much better able to take on a wide range of functions . |
| 23 | The most common response was that they felt better able to empathise with their patients and clients and understand the social and psychological implications of disability . |
| 24 | I shall be better able to reply to the speech of the hon. Member for Sherwood ( Mr. Stewart ) when the usual conventions no longer apply in three weeks ' time . |
| 25 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 26 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 27 | No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks , but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves . |
| 28 | Private customers receive more protection under the Rules than do non-private customers since the latter are deemed , to some extent , to be better able to look after their own interests . |
| 29 | With Maggie in London , Sheila and Mona had more light to themselves and were better able to come into their own . |
| 30 | L. Stettner quotes Sachs : She quotes also from other studies to show that these co-operatives are better able to survive under adversity than are conventionally organised plywood manufacturing firms , and why : in a phrase , higher productivity , so much higher as to result in some cases in value added per labour-hour of more than twice that of those firms . |