Example sentences of "[noun] able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tindemans Report ( 1976 ) recommended a gradual approach towards EMU , and suggested that the countries able to proceed in the direction of monetary union should do so , and others should follow suit later when conditions became more favourable . |
| 2 | At moments of crisis a nation needs a leader able to lead in the way Margaret Thatcher led then . |
| 3 | Only then were Geoffrey Downes and John Shaa able to go to the Chancery at Winchester on 6th July ; not until 1506 would the Goldsmiths physically possess the income from which the School was to be supported , when Thomas Fereby transferred the deeds of the property to the Company . |
| 4 | While few Whitehall officials disputed the need for nuclear weapons to damp out the possibility of a recurrence of the conventional-weapon slaughter of the two World Wars , Sandys had breached a fundamental principle of British military policy — the maintenance of balanced military forces able to react to the unforeseen . |
| 5 | Only after the mysterious mass extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago were our ancestors able to emerge into the daylight in any substantial numbers . |
| 6 | World War I brought an unprecedented economic boom and recognition of Japan 's acquisition of Great Power status — the only Asian country able to compete with the West on its own terms . |
| 7 | This is the classic position , and with only the bat to be raised the batsman is in position to move back or forward while at the same time able to focus on the ball . |