Example sentences of "able to make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers were not able to make early judgements about the ‘ success ’ or ‘ failure ’ of this attempt and noted that the most striking find was diversity of impact . |
| 2 | As Campbell ( 1980 , p. 13 ) has pointed out ‘ the Mondragon planners have decided that there is a limit to the number of people able to make industrial democracy work ‘ under one roof ’ . |
| 3 | Perhaps , as the poem goes on I shall be able to make various things clearer . |
| 4 | However , when I later discussed the matter with him , he agreed and presumably was able to make due allowance . |
| 5 | We have assumed in the above that the operation code field is fixed in length , but we may be able to make better use of the instruction length by having a variable.length operation code field . |
| 6 | After the publication of Heywood Sumner 's New Forest Wares , in 1927 , May was able to make ample amends in a short paper of 1930 ( May , 1930b ) . |
| 7 | He would have been able to make ample provision for the future whether or not he survived . |
| 8 | If you cultivate and feed your plants well — we shall discuss both later — you should be able to make heavier demands . |
| 9 | Personnel staff are able to conduct ‘ instant ’ interviews and applicants are able to make immediate contact with a large number of employers . |
| 10 | Liberal parties were able to make minimal impact on peasant and working-class constituents . |
| 11 | ‘ We are also hoping to extend the study to Europe and the US so that eventually , by the end of 1994 , we will be able to make international comparisons . |
| 12 | From there , she was able to make regular visits to Vietnam — and so give us essential reports on where our help was needed most . |
| 13 | Obviously , these tigers have to be able to make regular contact with each other , yet there are very few reserves that satisfy this requirement . |
| 14 | It is significant that the Palace were able to make two serious challenges for the 3rd Division South title in the four seasons that Hubert was with us . |
| 15 | During 1992 we were able to make two small acquisitions . |
| 16 | But by good fortune I was able to take a series of coloured photographs from which David Neal was able to make one of his skilful drawings many years later . |
| 17 | At the end of November , however , he was able to make one last trip to his native land , and the Eliots stayed in New York for the whole of December . |
| 18 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 19 | And the Kent employees were able to make four paid visits to the new area compared with the north London employees ' two . |
| 20 | The first sift has to be based on the written application , hence the need for a good form and experienced people who are able to make suitable assessments of candidates ' experience , and strengths and weaknesses against the requirements of the job . |
| 21 | But there are further grounds for doubting that — even given full disclosure — more than a small minority of this one in five will be able to make practical use of their alertness to APR and credit cost information . |
| 22 | Two of his nephews commanded armies in France and his wealth was so vast that he was able to make substantial loans to the Exchequer at a high rate of interest , which was not very popular . |
| 23 | Yet the need to harness the ability of the computer to monitor a dynamic situation far faster than is possible with manual methods was as pressing for SGB , with a Group payroll at the time approaching £13 million , as for the very large organisation able to make substantial investment in computerised personnel records . |
| 24 | Despite the problems of both Scottish raids and internal disorder , the coal industry of Northumberland and Durham was able to make substantial developments , with Newcastle as the centre of exports ( Ch.7 ; 82 , pp.164–5 ) . |
| 25 | The worst offenders are some of the Eastern European countries , who are unlikely to be able to make substantial financial contributions . |
| 26 | That Durham were able to make such a smooth start to their first-class life was an administrative triumph , and the fact that a fresh pile of membership applications arrived daily on the desk of the chief executive , Mike Gear , was its own tribute . |
| 27 | At first I was exhilarated to be able to make such a statement . |
| 28 | In Holden & Co. v. Crown Prosecution Service ( No. 2 ) [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 407 , the Court of Appeal ( Civil Division ) was able to make such orders under the provisions of section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 29 | In Scale 1 chapter nine Hilton says that the fullness of contemplative experience can be given to those in active life , though he adds the rider that they will not be able to make such full use of it as those living more sheltered lives as solitaries or in a contemplative order . |
| 30 | In order to participate in ordinary language usage , one must be able to make such calculations , both in production and interpretation . |