Example sentences of "[noun] able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 2 | For instance , Tarrow hypotheses that where a generally populist strategy is adopted by a broad-based urban-rural coalition able to call on a strong administrative apparatus , social policy may have a general redistributive impact in raising the standard of living in the periphery . |
| 3 | There was now greater co-operation with Customs officers on the Continent , with officers able to deal on a personal level with each other rather than at senior status — ensuring a quick and efficient exchange of information . |
| 4 | Anderson 's aim is to produce riders able to compete in the ten-event Grundig World Series . |
| 5 | Certainly there are exceptions : ( 5 ) Alec 's shoes are real leather Intuition leaves no room for hesitation in taking this as an example of assignment , with leather used purely descriptively , rather than of equation , but the occurrence of the adjective real indicates that leather is nonetheless a noun ( this is no doubt partly possible because the adjective leathern has dropped out of use in modern English , and because leather itself is a mass noun able to occur without a preceding article ) . |
| 6 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 7 | Only when Sir Alfred enlisted the help of his sister , Jean Stanley ( wife of Louis ) was BRM able to proceed for the 1962 season . |
| 8 | When the review was completed in 1970 , Macrory recommended the creation of twenty-six district councils to provide mainly environmental health , cleansing , recreational and other services able to operate on a similar small scale . |
| 9 | Using exactly the same technique , I encouraged her to imagine doing just this and to practise for a further fortnight , after which she was in fact able to go to the local park and sit on a bench watching the children at play . |