Example sentences of "are able [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He notes that successful collusion requires communication between the firms and that this is made much easier if they are able to exchange information about prices , outputs , and costs . |
| 2 | For example , it may be of little value that the authorities are able to control interest rates via monetary instruments if the relevant objectives are not very sensitive to changes in interest rates . |
| 3 | Boot sector viruses , such as Brain and Joshi , hide themselves away in the boot sector of a hard disk and are able to go memory-resident every time the PC is booted up . |
| 4 | Inmates are able to scale prison fences at night to collect drugs and alcohol , say the officers . |
| 5 | Buying weekly television licence stamps can ease the burden somewhat and certain elderly or disabled people are able to receive help from the local authority with the cost of a licence . |
| 6 | The crews are able to resuscitate heart attack patients , replace fluid intraveneously after severe blood loss , and insert tubes to maintain air supplies in unconconscious casualties . |
| 7 | The animals need more energy to propel themselves if the water around them is turbulent rather than laminar and Blake predicts that dolphins are able to reach crossover speeds even if surrounded by a turbulent layer of water . |
| 8 | As capitalists own and control the popular press they are able to spread disinformation about ethnic minorities and fan the flames of popular prejudice against them . |
| 9 | Even though the intestinal brush border enzymes from healthy individuals in vitro are able to hydrolyse gliadin completely , our results show , that at least a proportion of the instillated PT-gliadin escapes complete hydrolysis in vivo . |
| 10 | These are able to mobilize metal cations , such as Fe 3 + ; and Al 3 + ; , which are virtually insoluble under normal Eh-pH conditions , a process known as chelation . |
| 11 | The library would seem to provide much that these young people need , if the staff are alerted , are able to give time and informed attention , and are not slow to utilize material usually associated with adult readers . |
| 12 | In addition , some workers are members of professional organisations which are able to restrict entry into the profession and so keep salaries high . |
| 13 | It was pointed out in Chapter 4 that most patients who take overdoses or injure themselves do not require psychiatric inpatient care because they are able to take responsibility for themselves or have sufficient support available . |
| 14 | Concessionaires usually employ their own staff , but are able to take advantage of the facilities offered by the department store , together with its advertising , and its larger numbers of customers . |
| 15 | A number of animals are able to take advantage of this body heat . |
| 16 | Now , he said , while small companies are able to take advantage of small but cheap schemes such as that operated by the IoD , there are also very few major companies that have not taken out this type of insurance . |
| 17 | Such systems are able to take advantage of the limited constructions that are found for a specific task and the reduced vocabulary size . |
| 18 | It will come as no surprise to the Minister to hear that we have always taken the view that safety representatives are at their best when backed by a trade union , of whose resources and training they are able to take advantage . |
| 19 | ‘ A ’ level entrants to the financial services industry are able to take advantage of the Pre-Associateship Route , introduced in 1991 , which enables them to progress to the Associateship examinations after completing a foundation programme of four Banking Certificate subjects : |
| 20 | It is reliably claimed , for example , that certain yogis are able to take control of their physiological functions ( heart-beat rate , digestion , etc. ) , utterly inaccessible to most of us . |
| 21 | They are able to acquire land by compulsory purchase , by voluntary agreement or by the Secretary of State vesting it in them . |
| 22 | Many creatures of all kinds — worms , molluscs , fish — are able to generate light by various chemical means ; the depths are often illuminated , at least in flashes , by this bioluminescence . |
| 23 | External students and tutors are able to access HELP using PSS or Dialplus . |
| 24 | Safely protected from predators in their net bags the oysters are able to filter feed and mature . |
| 25 | It is only by exerting upward pressure themselves , using whatever means are at their disposal , that workers are able to sustain wage levels and general conditions . |
| 26 | The extent to which deliberate Acts of Parliament are able to contradict Community law is a more vexed question , although it found some answer in the case of the Spanish-owned fishing companies in 1991 . |
| 27 | Car-sharing has received a recent boost since the petrol price increases ; owners are able to share petrol costs without endangering their insurance policies as long as sharing is on a non-profit basis . |
| 28 | They are impressive up front , as they showed against England at Waterloo , and have some fleet-footed customers behind who are able to run riot against virtually any opposition . |
| 29 | This article attempts to provide some explanations for how readers of the play text or the audience of the dramatic performance are able to recognise character traits , and how these traits are themselves affected by the action of the play . |
| 30 | Even if they are able to find employment or occupation , it is not felt that families should be forced to provide a home for their handicapped son or daughter until they are too old to do so , or that this is necessarily the best thing for the development of a mentally handicapped adult who could derive considerable stimulation and benefit from living apart from their family . |