Example sentences of "are [adv] enable " in BNC.

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1 Free debate , free choice and genuine consent require , then , a level of education ( which may not be a formal education ) in social understanding such that people are aware of themselves as the targets of persuasion and propaganda , and are thereby enabled to resist these pressures .
2 Financial services , on the other hand , are only enabling mechanisms . ’
3 Miniature roses , sometimes not more than 6 inches ( 15cm ) high when full grown , are often denigrated and derided as toys — which is most unfair because a great many people with the most limited facilities who would otherwise miss out are thus enabled to experience the satisfaction of rose growing .
4 Once the presence of a carcass has been directly or indirectly detected , they glide down to it rapidly , and large numbers of vultures are thus enabled to assemble in a short time .
5 We are thus enabled to distinguish more easily the would-be functionalist 's explicans ( interactional structure ) from the explicandum ( language ) .
6 Property and other social relations are both enabling and constraining people 's instincts to be self-determined and to protect self and kin .
7 As we saw with the pre-sexological theories of perversion , condensation and displacement are strangely enabled by the view of perversion as an inimical threatening absence .
8 These are intended to ensure that the main points in the chapter have been absorbed and provide a basic check for the lecturer and the student to ensure that the basic tools are there to enable the student to tackle the problems for discussion with a reasonable grounding in the subject .
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