Example sentences of "more able [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , firms will be more able to respond to changes in demand by innovating and providing new products , once they are released from the bureaucratic requirements of state control . |
| 2 | However , he will be fitter and more able to cope with the ground than the form book danger , Rusch de Farges , whom he beat three lengths last season , but the latter has an 8lb advantage . |
| 3 | Even though it may do nothing to alter the circumstances , many people feel much calmer and more able to cope with the situation after ‘ a good cry ’ . |
| 4 | Whatever was to be , I should be more able to cope with it . |
| 5 | A sensitivity to this type of variation should contribute towards pupils becoming more tolerant of linguistic diversity , more aware of the richness it can provide and more able to cope with problems of communication . |
| 6 | Until you feel more able to cope with your new situation . ’ |
| 7 | To a large extent , however , it 's what working in an education service is all about — caring for today 's young people in order that they will be more able to cope with the complexities of a society teachers and parents will never live to see . |
| 8 | Jenna felt more able to cope with dignity in her own language and the girl 's face creased into a knowing smile . |
| 9 | Was n't it possible that a man of Jamie 's age might be more able to cope with her feminism , her academic success ? |
| 10 | Of course , I was a lot younger and more able to cope in 1947 , and I was n't alone — Father had died by then but there was Mother and Uncle . |
| 11 | The argument is simple and reflexive : if the body of this book has been about helping teachers to be more able to deal with uncertainty , conflict and change — in a word , to become better learners — then the tail asserts that the core of their job should be to help young people to become good learners in their turn . |
| 12 | Tomorrow she would be fresher , more able to deal with this disconcerting ability of his to disarm at will with a casual smile and a deceiving show of interest . |
| 13 | these images , our society is more able to ascribe to the majority of its members — the right-thinking corpus — a comforting sense of order and social propriety . |
| 14 | And in many abolitionist minds this would ultimately lead to emancipation ; slaves would not only gradually become more able to live in freedom but better conditions would so enhance the population of labourers in the West Indies that it would be cheaper to employ workers on a waged basis than as slaves . |
| 15 | The work of the secretary has been revolutionised by the advent of the word processor and secretaries are now far more able to take on a more substantial support role . |
| 16 | Rachel was , though , more able to take in the ruin of the room than Phoebe had been . |
| 17 | I will consequently become much more able to rely upon … to depend upon … myself … my own judgement … my own opinions . |
| 18 | Inevitably , over such a long period , I became less institutionalized , more able to function as an individual in relation to belief and action and not merely accept the organization 's definition of things ; and this is a profoundly un-police like state of affairs ! |
| 19 | Where such an understanding develops the teacher is more able to relate to the child in the classroom . |
| 20 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 21 | The people who 've been going through the induction courses though for the last six months or so , they 're probably up , more able to speak to it , and you 're going to be better off actually than the , the old boys if you like and girls , because it 's going to be old dogs , new tricks , but as you wo n't know any different and you do this , then you 'll have an advantage over them . |
| 22 | They are no more able to play during the week because of their careers than men in the same line of business . |
| 23 | So as you feel happier with that , you 'll b more able to play with them . |
| 24 | I believe that they are now closer to their customers and more able to cater for the needs of their customers , including those who fall behind with their payments . |
| 25 | It could be argued that , with practice , the body becomes more able to adjust to a time-zone transition , a kind of ‘ learning ’ effect . |
| 26 | Women are generally less tied to their work and more able to adjust to retirement ( though as more and more women devote great energy and interest to a career , this is changing ) . |
| 27 | By this time they are more able to fend for themselves , and have a better chance of survival . |
| 28 | Livebearers usually have small broods , too , as the fry are quite well-developed , and are more able to fend for themselves than eggs or newly hatched egglayers . |