Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both are always ready to give visitors the benefit of their experience and advice ; and , at times , they may be able to arrange for newcomers to fish Loch Brora in company with a local angler . |
| 2 | It is clear that not all pupils will , by the age of 16 , be able to cope with texts which combine all such dimensions of difficulty . |
| 3 | I will give you an example of what one might be confronted with in the future from , from a piece from the Environment Committee in the House of Commons ' Report on Coastal Zone Planning and Management and it says here , we fail to see what is impractical about treating the seabed as submerged land an opinion shared by the Royal Town Planning Institute no less and if planning authorities can deal with issues like public rights of way , aggregate extraction multiple use on land , they should be able to cope with rights of navigation and extraction of sea . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " I am definitely able to cope with things better now , especially the children . |
| 6 | In the country generally , two-thirds of those are in the C2 , DE categories , which by any socio-economic definition will be the less prosperous end of the market and less able to cope with rises of 17.5 per cent eventually in the cost of a basic part of the household budget . |
| 7 | Mental health services must be able to cope with individuals whose mental disorder is so severe that the person creates serious disturbance or threat to others . |
| 8 | It is not enough to weep for ourselves ; we have to be able to weep for others . |
| 9 | You may also be able to sue for damages if your employer , past or present , fails to take care to ensure that his comments are based on correct information . |
| 10 | B may refuse to accept that as a repudiation by S. In that case B will be able to sue for damages for non-delivery if on December 1 S does not deliver . |
| 11 | In this case , the contract may be set aside and the buyer will be able to sue for damages . |
| 12 | Therefore providers ought to be able to agree to contracts for these services at a lower price . |
| 13 | They will be more able to develop consensus views based on direct observation and will be able to enthuse to others in the community about what they have seen . |
| 14 | But I think we 've got to remember that the , the people who really determine the quality of the users of our services , the clients , it 's they who say yes , this is what I want , this is th this is what I 'm after and that is why I hope that we will be able to target on things that come out of the consultation progress s process , things like evening and weekend working that people want and , rather than simply churning out more nine to five Monday to Friday day care , what people want is it targeted to their needs where they are and it 's that sort of quality that I think is so important . |
| 15 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |
| 16 | I want to be able to sit with friends around a dinner table and not think about what I am doing . |
| 17 | John Holt ( one of the few authors whose books still seem able to appeal to students despite their inoculation ) writes of a common experience that mirrors mine with the Scottish educational psychologists . |
| 18 | You should be able to go into turns and make centring movements without having to refer to the slip ball , yaw string , or ASI . |
| 19 | Magazines are fine , but you want to be able to go into bookshops and have access to other people 's minds and lives through fiction . |
| 20 | The instructor 's award is to be subdivided into those able to instruct on cliffs of less than 40 metres and 40 metres plus , and groups of less than 50 abseilers ( one coachload ? ) , and more than 50 people ( multiple coach loads ) . |
| 21 | This is an amenity that all Teessiders and others from further afield will be able to enjoy for generations . |
| 22 | We want to wear some of those clothes in the wardrobe that we have n't been able to wear for ages . |
| 23 | Moreover , popular schools would seldom be able to accommodate as pupils the children of all parents who wanted to send them there . |
| 24 | ‘ He will also call for nothing less than a parallel system with equal legal status under which those who can not accept women priests will be able to continue with bishops of like mind . ’ |
| 25 | She drove across the bridge into Cookham , scarcely able to see for tears of shock and anger . |
| 26 | The USSR apparently has a lead in radar equipment able to see through clouds . |
| 27 | Able to see by lights from their pit helmets , the trapped miners cut the pipe at their end of the blockage while their rescuers did the same , pumping through fresh air by fan . |
| 28 | Before the end of August 1944 John was able to write to Hanns : |
| 29 | However , thanks to the ‘ core plus options ’ structure of the Associateship course , introduced as a result of the recommendations of the Wilkinson Committee , individual candidates are not expected to become ‘ Jacks of all trades ’ , but are able to concentrate on specialisms that are in keeping with their own career aspirations and their employers ' needs . |
| 30 | They have been able to work on problems not in order to satisfy an authoritative teacher , but because the problems are intrinsically interesting and challenging . |