Example sentences of "able [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these boats had been supplied to foreign naval powers and had been proved able and fast in all sea conditions . |
| 2 | Old guidebooks , I notice , call their site ‘ desolate ’ but that is most unfair , because although you are here at more than 7,000 feet there is a good deal of picnic able and even sleep able turf round about , a lake to fish in , and affable groups of horses browsing the summer away . |
| 3 | The sudden fall of an able and apparently powerful minister such as the Duc de Choiseul in 1770 showed that even in the last years of the lethargic and indifferent Louis XV this control was real . |
| 4 | Some able and highly motivated visually handicapped people develop sophisticated levels of hearing and touch that astound the fully sighted , but these are not an automatic compensation for poor vision , and there is considerable individual variation in these areas of competence . |
| 5 | An able and highly successful mining engineer , he had also show outstanding ability and humanity in organizing relief for war-stricken Europe in 1919 . |
| 6 | In a milder way , the doctrine of ministerial responsibility also inhibits the mass of able and highly trained and experienced civil servants from contributing fully in their own professional associations and academic conferences , in case their opinions or comments on their own work or methods might catch a headline or embarrass a minister . |
| 7 | When teachers involved with LAMP began to allow their pupils to engage in mathematics in this broader way they found their pupils better able and more willing to question , to transfer and apply their mathematics and to sort out even quite difficult problems . |
| 8 | ‘ He was as bad at football as everyone else in the team but he was very good value , a very able and genuinely funny man . |
| 9 | I worked directly under the Manager , Signor Cavatorta , who was very able and extremely diplomatic with his customers , and I learnt how indifferent and merciless all banks are towards any customer who has the misfortune to be in debt : that was more or less all . |