Example sentences of "able [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope you will be able to arrange for some assistance , possibly by including the burial ground in your Grounds Maintenance contract . |
| 2 | That is why they 're able to go for these very precise figures of public spending , scientific precision about estimates for the years ahead and then say , ‘ All argument hereafter ceases . |
| 3 | In this way researchers are able to search for direct comparisons between reports and to isolate categories of phenomena . |
| 4 | If the general practitioner pronounces the patient fit enough , he may be able to start driving a car again , although he may need to retake a driving test if he has not been able to drive for several months . |
| 5 | I enjoy my work at the playgroup and hope I will be able to continue for many years to come ’ |
| 6 | In exceptional cases they may be able to continue for 300 yards , but beyond this they quickly become exhausted and give up . |
| 7 | The only concession forced through before the critical days in September was on the tax allowance to foster parents who were now able to claim for any child in their care under the age of sixteen or in full-time education . |
| 8 | You body wo n't turn as much as it did before , you get tired more quickly , you 're less able to concentrate for long periods and have to allow for more errors . |
| 9 | You will need to be able to work for long periods with a high degree of accuracy , and have really good eyesight . |
| 10 | Soon it became clear that Sarah was seriously ill with rheumatic fever and would not be able to work for some time , and another girl , Hetty , was engaged temporarily . |
| 11 | They believed , with some justice , that local authorities were better able to provide for variable local conditions than remote central authorities . |
| 12 | It was what they both wanted and with her share of her father 's money Beryl would be well able to provide for both of them in style . |
| 13 | Well , certainly this particular piece of work would have been held up , er the salary that we 're able to provide for this young researcher was absol , absolutely essential , and in Great Britain there is an enormous reliance on charitable funding for research , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 14 | I still can not say whose bomb did turn the Tirpitz over , But this is all good for morale ; like the piece of the Tirpit : that I was able to secure for these two happy squadrons , encased in a large frame of good British oak , and displayed at Binbrook as a trophy of what Willie Tait and his gang of two — 617 and 9 , or 9 and 617 , the choice is yours — achieved . |
| 15 | She only spends about 8 hours without food and fluid and is soon able to compensate for this . |
| 16 | After a few minutes of practise , subjects adapt and are able to compensate for this distortion . |
| 17 | The normal absorptive capacity of the colon , estimated to be as much as six litres per day , should be able to compensate for significant fluid losses from the small intestine in secretory diarrhoea . |
| 18 | Better educated mothers may be able to compensate for some unfavourable conditions , where women with no schooling may not , and so on . |
| 19 | Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure . |
| 20 | The council statement said Coun Harvison and leader of the Labour group Arthur Taylor appreciated that paying for training was normal , ‘ but were concerned that the unemployed would not be able to apply for one of the 70 part-time instructors ’ jobs . |
| 21 | Hospitals to be able to apply for self-governing status within the NHS as NHS Hospital Trusts . |
| 22 | Finally , studies have shown fitness improvement levels off once you are easily able to exercise for 30 minutes . |
| 23 | But perhaps , more constructively , the results of this paper point the way to the appropriate modelling of economic behaviour when agents are not able to optimize for one reason or another . |
| 24 | It might not be to everyone 's taste or be able to last for hundreds of years but you have to admit that she would turn a few heads if she appeared sitting casually in your garden . |
| 25 | His flight had left New York three hours after the Paris flight and by then the worst of the turbulence over the Atlantic had dissipated so he had been able to sleep for most of the journey . |
| 26 | This was the idea , popularised in Shonfield 's Modern Capitalism but covered in a very large number of other works also , that a shift was occurring away from territorially based representation towards representation based on functional cleavages , with a consequent decline in the power of the territorially based representative assemblies known as parliaments and an ever-increasing role for corporatist organisations able to negotiate for organised functional interests at the national level . |
| 27 | If not , he argues , players should be able to opt for another country if — like John Gallagher or the Samoans playing in the All Black trials — they want to play at the highest level regardless of country . |
| 28 | SGML is supposed to be able to do for document-based information what SQL did for proprietary databases . |
| 29 | Give my respect and thanks to the author , whose novel is the first English one and the French are only romances now , that I have been able to read for many a day . |
| 30 | Michael Redgrave was fortunate in having an excellent stepfather , and was able to study for four years at Cambridge University where he obtained an honourable B.A. ( Cantab . ) . |