Example sentences of "[noun] able [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ii European collaboration will help create an industry able to compete with the US . |
| 2 | The Tindemans Report ( 1976 ) recommended a gradual approach towards EMU , and suggested that the countries able to proceed in the direction of monetary union should do so , and others should follow suit later when conditions became more favourable . |
| 3 | At moments of crisis a nation needs a leader able to lead in the way Margaret Thatcher led then . |
| 4 | A new British guitar band able to compete with the Yanks on their terms . |
| 5 | Anderson 's aim is to produce riders able to compete in the ten-event Grundig World Series . |
| 6 | As well as qualified psychiatrists and psychologists , the network includes people able to translate for the refugees . |
| 7 | Only then were Geoffrey Downes and John Shaa able to go to the Chancery at Winchester on 6th July ; not until 1506 would the Goldsmiths physically possess the income from which the School was to be supported , when Thomas Fereby transferred the deeds of the property to the Company . |
| 8 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 9 | While few Whitehall officials disputed the need for nuclear weapons to damp out the possibility of a recurrence of the conventional-weapon slaughter of the two World Wars , Sandys had breached a fundamental principle of British military policy — the maintenance of balanced military forces able to react to the unforeseen . |
| 10 | Only when Sir Alfred enlisted the help of his sister , Jean Stanley ( wife of Louis ) was BRM able to proceed for the 1962 season . |
| 11 | Only after the mysterious mass extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago were our ancestors able to emerge into the daylight in any substantial numbers . |
| 12 | World War I brought an unprecedented economic boom and recognition of Japan 's acquisition of Great Power status — the only Asian country able to compete with the West on its own terms . |
| 13 | As his confidence grew we carefully started to build a player able to play for the others . |
| 14 | Using exactly the same technique , I encouraged her to imagine doing just this and to practise for a further fortnight , after which she was in fact able to go to the local park and sit on a bench watching the children at play . |
| 15 | This is the classic position , and with only the bat to be raised the batsman is in position to move back or forward while at the same time able to focus on the ball . |