Example sentences of "[noun] able [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1977 , Audi cars able to run on unleaded petrol have been widely available . |
| 2 | Furthermore , any interest group able to threaten in this way probably has a special relationship with a major political party , and is acknowledged as important in that sense . |
| 3 | In addition , since the CAB did not succeed when they pressed for the extension of legal aid to cover representation at industrial tribunals , there simply is no other organisation able to take on this work . |
| 4 | Many favour using massed war engines to rain doom down on the enemy , while others prefer fast-moving cavalry armies able to respond to any threat . |
| 5 | If we are to improve our general education standards we must have funding for the system and an inspectorate able to comment on that matter . |
| 6 | Trams , however , were taken off the streets of London , in 1935 , and were replaced by trolley-buses — vehicles able to run on electric power by having two arms stretching above their roof to make contact with a pair of overhead cables , instead of the single arm of the tram and the metal rails set in the carriageway of the road along which their route was arranged . |