Example sentences of "[noun] be able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Common safeguards If companies in Europe are to deal across national boundaries , it is important that investors , customers and creditors are able to deal with confidence with enterprises from other member states , whether directly , or through their subsidiaries and agencies . |
| 2 | At the other end of the band , many insects , fish and birds are able to see beyond blue into ultraviolet radiation invisible to us . |
| 3 | The prices that different social groups are able to afford for land can be seen as an equivalent to natural species competing for space . |
| 4 | Bats are able to fly with ease and at speed , avoiding the branches of trees , telegraph wires , other bats , etc. , and can catch insects . |
| 5 | Through working together the schools are able to buy in expertise and share the costs of producing high quality materials . |
| 6 | Neither Grosbard 's direction nor Gardner 's script is able to come into focus and , as a result , Dustin 's character remains blurred . |
| 7 | The boy 's story was discounted and Oldfield was able to continue in charge of the home until his suspension in 1990 when new evidence came to light . |
| 8 | In the face of a common enemy , Serbs , Croats , Italians and Vlahs were able to unite in defence of the Dalmatian city states which owed allegiance to Venice . |
| 9 | David Raffe ( 11 ) of Edinburgh University found that more than three-quarters of school leavers from sparsely populated areas were able to live at home . |
| 10 | This can be seen as a kind of intermediate position halfway between the child as a tabula rasa with no innate knowledge of the world and the child being able to speak at birth . |
| 11 | There were some problems which the Public Assistance Committee was able to unload without regret . |
| 12 | The extent to which individuals are able to participate in employment , leisure and social interaction , for example , will be an indicator of the reality of their ‘ adulthood ’ . |
| 13 | In the 1970s , this kind of pressure led to the prevalence of an increasing pool of funds allocated to soft or mixed commercial credits , which some EC governments were able to describe as aid . |
| 14 | In Northumberland , half the farmers are tenant farmers and we need a greater supply of land for rent to ensure the continued prosperity of the tenanted sector , with new entrants being able to come into agriculture . |
| 15 | Overall , the amounts which these groups of families were able to spend on food were , in three cases out of four , well below the minimum considered necessary by the British Medical Association Nutrition Committee . |
| 16 | The availability of such services plays a part in whether an old person is able to stay at home . |
| 17 | Would the separate private off-shore cover arranged by some major international groups be able to buy into Pool Re ? |
| 18 | Faces , words and objects form three classes of stimuli that most people are able to identify with ease . |
| 19 | Most people are able to stay at home , perhaps with some extra support . |
| 20 | The idea is that a user of Ardis , presently the largest wireless network and equally owned by Motorola and IBM Corp , would for example be able to talk to RAM Mobile Data users , says Reuter . |
| 21 | By 1969 millions of people were able to watch on colour TV as the first human set foot on the moon . |
| 22 | Consequently Hunt earned the thanks of The Civil Engineer and Architects ' Journal for his innovation , and a few days later in the House , Gladstone was able to say with satisfaction that ‘ for the first time in the history of public edifices in the metropolis ’ , it was possible to state what the real cost would be . |
| 23 | Burrowing species are obviously at a disadvantage in such situations , although some species are able to escape by swimming . |
| 24 | Science-based departments are able to apply to Research Councils for studentships on behalf of some suitably qualified applicants : alternatively , they may be able to offer financial support from an industrial source . |
| 25 | The following sections of this chapter lists the full range of services that MAS and other departments are able to offer in conjunction with an acquisition . |
| 26 | And had his voice been able to cut through metal as it cut through the early morning air , then they would all of them have been free of the Cages in moments . |
| 27 | So in this way the Persians were able to advance with ease and the Egyptians were helpless to retaliate . |
| 28 | Some conscripts were able to live at home for at least part of their service , reporting for duty at 5.30 a.m. and returning in the late afternoon — but usually only those who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it . |
| 29 | By far the two most common and important fungal diseases are mildew and black spot , and both arise from microscopically small spores in the air being able to settle on leaf and stem tissue that is unable to offer sufficient resistance to their invasive germination . |
| 30 | Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) . |