Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the profit-sharing would have to be ‘ informal ’ as nurses are not legally able to enter into practice partnerships . |
| 2 | Not only did this dilute the power of the incorporated companies , but there was no replacement by an equivalent power , for the larger and more amorphous body of investors was hardly as able to lobby against interest reductions or other schemes to lessen the weight on government . |
| 3 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 4 | Her plans to move away from London meant that she was no longer able to continue as director of the Display Team and she was warmly thanked for everything she had done in the past . |
| 5 | According to this reading , the repetition of episodes and the lack of a linear structure can be regarded as being in keeping with the formal realism of a narrative which is being conducted by someone whose overwrought state of mind colours his perception of the world around him , and who is no longer able to distinguish between imagination and reality . |
| 6 | It usually starts because a much-loved mare is no longer able to work under saddle but could perhaps produce a foal . |
| 7 | By the 1960s the London ring 's increase had fallen and was no longer able to compensate for core losses , leading to a massive net loss in the SMLA as a whole . |