Example sentences of "able [to-vb] information " in BNC.
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| 1 | The network will be able to transmit information about the movements of aircraft throughout Europe , providing a central overview of air traffic conditions not previously available . |
| 2 | When querying the database you are only able to see information to which you have read access in LIFESPAN . |
| 3 | If , however , the market is able to absorb information about the risks attached to future cash flows from other sources , for example the work of financial analysts , then the role of qualification is marginalised to that of informing unsophisticated investors about risks , the knowledge of which has , unbeknown to them , already been built into the pricing of their securities , but which might possibly cause them to consider whether they should diversify their portfolio or change its composition . |
| 4 | However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively . |
| 5 | Age Concern also believes that general practitioners should be able to provide information about their services , and that there should be increased health promotion and preventive screening provided by general practices . |
| 6 | He was able to provide information on age , sex , and growth of whales for the first time without killing , touching , marking , or molesting a single animal . |
| 7 | Three agencies-the Drugs Council , the Detoxification Unit , and GPs-were able to provide information about the frequency and duration of heroin use , the quantities used , and the route of administration ( method of use ) . |
| 8 | For information about the SOED 's grants , write to the Research and Intelligence Unit , Scottish Office Education Department , room 4/48 New St Andrew 's House , Edinburgh EH1 3SY who will be able to provide information and guidance . |
| 9 | Rule-based methods offer some method of combining the two together — the grammar is able to provide information to the semantic analysis . |
| 10 | These are periods when staff able to provide information to visitors are either reduced in numbers or absent . |
| 11 | The student will also be able to provide information on sea travel . |
| 12 | The University Childcare Officer is also able to provide information about other childcare facilities in the local area . |
| 13 | If future technological societies ever learn to harness tachyons and modulate them ( in the same way that we modulate radio waves ) they will be able to communicate information from the future to the past . |
| 14 | ‘ Recent experiments suggest that there exists an ‘ interconnectiveness ’ of the human mind with other minds and with matter — that the human mind may be able to obtain information independent of geography and time … ’ and concluded that ‘ … a general recognition of the degree of interconnectiveness of minds ( and matter ) could have far-reaching society and political implications for the nation and the world . ’ |
| 15 | The Japanese Ministry of Education 's National Institute of Fusion Science says that its NEC Corp SX-3 Model 24 supercomputer successfully fulfilled all the requirements specified in the initial contract bid : the contract was concluded last June , and was the subject of a challenge by Cray Research Inc late last year , and Cray was permitted to observe the operation of the new computer ; according to the Nikkei Industrial News , Cray complained that it was unable to obtain sufficient data on hardware issues such as NEC magneto-optical installed with the SX-3 , which NEC claims are the fastest in the world , and on the ultra high-speed HIPPI channel linked to them ; on the software side , Cray said that it was not able to obtain information on the efficiency of the automatic parallelising function ; for its part , NEC announced simply that the supercomputer was in full operation . |
| 16 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | One wonders whether the Department of Social Security fraud branch is able to request information , and what checks there are on its legitimate use . |
| 18 | The public will be able to request information relating to these areas , but the body concerned will be allowed to refuse any requests " which are formulated in too general a manner " . |
| 19 | Here telesales operators will be able to feed information directly into a database as they take customer calls . |
| 20 | The good manager will be keenly aware of the needs of others and able to identify information which must be passed on . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , put it this way , you claim to be able to derive information from internal visual images which you believe to directly correspond to the phenomenal world . ’ |
| 22 | They will also be able to give information about local voluntary agencies which may be able to offer you advice or support , and also about local services for people with special difficulties such as problems with alcohol , drugs or gambling . |
| 23 | They will also be able to give information about local voluntary agencies which may be able to offer you advice or support , and also about local services for people with special difficulties such as problem with alcohol , drugs or gambling . |
| 24 | He might be able to elicit information from the families which the policeman had missed ; but he had reckoned without the gulf between granting permission to interview , and the families ' readiness to talk . |
| 25 | In these situations they are able to contribute information and guidance regarding the problems that pupils have with visual activities and to consider on an individual basis the compounding effect that these may have in terms of the other disabilities from which the child may suffer . |
| 26 | Businesses which are Prestel information providers will be able to supply information on their products not only to the general public but also to select groups within a particular business or profession , Travel agents , for example , already use the Prestel service extensively . |
| 27 | This study will reach beyond the poll books themselves to consider tax assessments , rentals , manorial records and other documentary sources able to supply information about named individuals . |
| 28 | ‘ Cobalt is able to get information about criminal activity linked to drugs and so is Maurin . |
| 29 | Rarely do the investors have a documented past record to analyse , nor are they able to glean information from historic share price data . |
| 30 | Everybody else then , number , section one Can you collect information for use in a class Now we 've got several ways of doing this , first of all , were you able to collect information for the class survey , whoever 's fiddling with a pen please do n't , it 's driving me nuts . |