Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together with Headmaster Philpot in the Senior School and Mr. R.D.H. Reeman , an Old Stopfordian , Master in charge of the Junior , only 33 members of staff were employed , carrying a heavy load but seemingly willing and certainly able to perform almost miracles . |
| 2 | Where listed buildings stand empty and completely abandoned they are able to carry out emergency work themselves and send the bills to the owners . |
| 3 | The search software is user-friendly , with menu-driven commands , colour screens and help facilities , and users are able to carry out searches themselves with little or no instruction from library staff . |
| 4 | Social researchers , especially those who are not experienced programmers , find difficulty in using this package , although by using it they are able to carry out analyses which , using conventional packages , are almost impossible . |
| 5 | The ultimate goal of online instruction , for both end-users and intermediaries , is to be able to carry out information searches online . |
| 6 | However , considerable experience and expertise is available from specialist lift companies who are able to carry out traffic studies and listen to detailed requirements so that they can propose a range of solutions . |
| 7 | People who hold these posts are deemed able to carry out research without supervision . |
| 8 | Clothes that suit teenagers may no longer suit the forty-five-year-old , but she , in turn , is able to carry off fashions that youngsters would not have the poise or elegance to wear . |
| 9 | It is suggested that applying losses to the preceding three years on a ‘ first in , first out ’ , rather than the existing ‘ last in , first out ’ , basis would decrease the possibility that companies are not able to carry back losses to periods in which profits were made . |
| 10 | It wanted newspapers and the radio to be able to report where things went wrong , especially if this led to matters being put right . |
| 11 | IBM also says that AD/Cycle and AIX CASE tool builders will be able to support both OS/2 and AIX development systems ‘ with a minimum of incremental effort ’ which seems to suggest that the same will apply to applications developed with either , making it easier for users to hedge their bets by making their new mainframe applications migratable to the generality of Unix environments . |
| 12 | The Pinzgauer was able to drive up 600m of hillside and bring down 27-year-old John Richards . |
| 13 | Which would surround the context and you 'd be able to see when people , the real first names . |
| 14 | ‘ Unfortunately , we will not be able to see where Paul died , because of the vastness of the sands . |
| 15 | So you will be able to see where things are heading , ladies and gentlemen … |
| 16 | erm another area of my work is as I er writing workshops , the writing workshops are very different from the normal writing workshops there based at galleries and they take groups of people round an exhibition recording their comments on either one particular picture or the exhibition as a whole and then with my help we put the comments into poems that are then displayed along side the exhibits , erm this work I do with erm all sorts of people with children people with special needs , disabled people and , and that 's really where my interest in art erm comes in and I find that its a great leveller for people who would like to express themselves and have perhaps have difficulty by aiding , by looking at paintings and being able to see perhaps emotions or images that they , they feel themselves , so in all areas erm I find painting in my areas of work , painting influences me and has done for as , as long as I can remember . |
| 17 | ‘ Now Draco wo n't be able to see how Vasilariov is infested . ’ |
| 18 | She relied a good deal on Lessing , whom she disliked but who had qualities that made him useful to her ; he was able to work out salaries , including those of his cousins in the Hampstead house , the expenses of running the theatre , lighting , heating , cleaning . |
| 19 | As well as the hundreds of demonstrations by artists and craftspeople covering all art forms , this year The Artist has helped organise a very much larger Materials and Techniques section where you will be able to try out art materials , ask questions and buy products from many of the UK 's leading art materials ' manufacturers . |
| 20 | It is this stage of trials that can be quite lengthy as teachers need to be able to try out material at a suitable place in the curriculum . |
| 21 | The millions of pounds this district has been able to secure through I D O is testimony to this , despite the rather luke warm support received at the time from the Labour group . |
| 22 | Focusing upon problem emotions means that the counsellor has to be able to pass back information to the counsellee . |
| 23 | At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range . |
| 24 | I 'm not prepared to accept that any more than I am prepared to accept the hogwash that we heard from Bob Morgan and his Liberal Democrats , because of course it may be extremely comfortable for him to be acting like a beached dolphin on the shores of Abu Dhabi , but the fact of the matter is , of course , that the Liberal Democrats , with or without the backs of their envelopes and cigarettes packets , are extremely unlikely to be making any national legislation , so they are quite comfortable in being able to observe how others might or might not do it . |
| 25 | Chubby is something of a phenomena , being one of the few stand up comedians able to sell out theatres up and down the country having had very little television exposure . |
| 26 | the Masai officers should be of exceptional physique , preferably unmarried ( though this has disadvantages ) but , if married , then without children ; that their wives shd. be happy in solitary surroundings , and that they ( the men ) should , if possible , be able to pick up Masai and shd. have leanings towards the study of native customs . |
| 27 | ARABLE farmers seeking to optimise returns from their crops will be able to pick up tips at the two-day Cereal ‘ 93 National Cereals and Combinable Crops Event , which gets under way tomorrow . |
| 28 | EARLY ultrasound scanning may be able to pick up pregnancies most at risk of Down 's syndrome . |
| 29 | Do n't expect to be able to pick up desktop publishing skills in an instant . |
| 30 | I might be able to pick up Radio 5 when conditions are good cos I can usually get Radio 2 and even RTE ( Irish station ) late in the evening . |