Example sentences of "able [to-vb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the organizational advantages of being able to sample at a regular interval are so considerable that such anxieties are often set aside . |
| 2 | The labour force is becoming more like the military with the use of a limited age range and the screening out of anyone with any kind of disability who might not be able to work at a pace and with the flexibility and precision which will maintain the return on the very large capital investment . |
| 3 | this time we were able to stand at a distance from it all and weigh it up and write better songs . |
| 4 | Pearce lists these as two important qualities for a top manager together with being able to look at a problem and see the two or three key factors . |
| 5 | Although these findings were considered in the context of differential hemispheric activation , they might more parsimoniously be thought to reflect no more than the fact that people wish to be able to look at a blackboard in the middle of the room . |
| 6 | No-one will be able to look at a photograph , particularly a family album photo , in the same way again . |
| 7 | In exchange , homesteaders will pay a lower rent or be able to buy at a reduced price . |
| 8 | You need to have done 50 hard winter climbs , climbed some classic routes in the Alps — normally 3,000ft long , and be able to ski at a reasonable parallel level both on an off piste . |
| 9 | As a result of this the club has been able to run at a constant level of activity . |
| 10 | The implication is that the Frankish foot soldier was skilled in all round weaponry , able to fight at a distance and at close quarters . |
| 11 | If , for lack of a formula , British ministries ( and no doubt ministries elsewhere ) are unable to price the amenity value of landscapes threatened by development , how on earth would any government — or , more probably a conference of governments — be able to arrive at a system for pricing the air ? |
| 12 | It is clear from the above that higher headquarters placed great emphasis on L Detachment remaining essential fly as a parachute unit , and this was in keeping with Stirling 's doctrine that his men should be able to arrive at a target by whatever means were most suitable . |
| 13 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 14 | If the customer base is broadly the same as for existing products , then the credit manager should be able to arrive at a reasonable assessment of these factors . |
| 15 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 16 | Since daylight was flooding into the world , I was able to stay at a distance and keep him in sight . |
| 17 | You have got to enjoy yourself to be able to complete at a top level and I still love my running . |
| 18 | I would say that they ought to be able to spend at a level which is within the S S As that have been given both for the county and for the districts , and therefore we should be below the three hundred and seventy eight . |
| 19 | As a result of that meeting , the leaders agreed to meet together to discuss the obstacles in the way of further political dialogue in the hope that new talks might be able to begin at an early date . |
| 20 | Erm I , I , there were provisions that where er more than ten percent of the population for any area was at the level you would be able to tax at a higher rate . |
| 21 | Apparently , in the year 2000 only five collieries would be able to produce at a cost of 130p per gigajoule . |
| 22 | MOTORISTS will soon be able to tell at a glance whether it is cheaper to buy their next car abroad . |
| 23 | Bishop 's Castle Railway employees were able to travel at a much reduced rate on all railways in the British Isles . |