Example sentences of "able [to-vb] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as many children score lower on a word-recognition reading test than they ought , because the words have no context of meaning , so she may be able to spell better than she demonstrates on this test . |
| 2 | Having been to a coeducational school , she did not find men a novelty , and in theory ought to have been able to discriminate better than Liz ( who endured some fairly dreadful experimental evenings in her search for entertainment ) , but her natural kindness made it almost impossible for her to refuse any overture , however offensive , however louche . |
| 3 | We are sure that , as now , many hospitals will be able to do better than this . |
| 4 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 5 | The leader takes account of these responses in choosing its output and is able to do better than it would under Cournot reactions there is a ‘ first mover ’ or precommitment advantage . |
| 6 | ‘ I may be able to do better than that , ’ said Tracey . |
| 7 | But because of the bureaucratic necessity to generalize and disregard distinctions too fine for large-scale enforcement and administration , some people are able to do better if they refuse to acknowledge the authority of this law . |
| 8 | Using solutions which deploy these models , production and operations divisions should , for example , be able to share well and drilling information with their geology and geophysics counterparts . |
| 9 | Nowadays I am a lot better placed and able to eat better because of the electric cooker . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll be able to push better if you go down a gear . |