Example sentences of "[adv] able [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all acknoweldge that they provide an important service , especially for the elderly and those less able to get to the larger stores during the week . ’ |
| 2 | Job Reviews for staff are now well established , and the training development programmes implemented following the reviews are intended to help all WEC staff become better able to deal with the difficult and competitive trading conditions we face in all markets . |
| 3 | An even distribution has an added advantage , the institution will be better able to cope with the Unpredictable . |
| 4 | Some of the larger issuers have simultaneous ECP and SCP programmes , being easily able to switch between the two markets in order to take advantage of perceived arbitrage opportunities and with the ECP programme providing a " benchmark " interest rate for the SCP programme . |
| 5 | It was thus able to draw on the large reservoir of latent discontent among Liberals and the intellectuals which had been only slightly touched by the problem of unemployment and which was completely cut off from the syndicalist traditions of working class militancy in the previous decade . |
| 6 | Together with electronic ignition , electronic knock sensors , over-run fuel cut-off and idle-speed governing , these ‘ green ’ power units are thus able to comply with the stringent US87 emission regulations . |
| 7 | Similarly , if a person is able to accept supervision , how can it be argued that they are not able to consent to the medical arrangements given during it ? |
| 8 | Imagine , for a moment , the situation that could arise if one was taken ill and was not able to perform to the required levels of the Bank 's Targets ? |
| 9 | We were not able to adjust for the possible confounding effect of body weight as this information has not been collected . |
| 10 | We were also able to wander around the herbaceous gardens , Pets corner , wildflower meadows and museum of farm implements . |
| 11 | Alternatively , it may be the strategy with which teachers feel most able to cope with the wide range of pupil attainment . |
| 12 | It needs to give details of the type of person seen by the organisation as most able to succeed in the foreign environment . |
| 13 | By telling his or her own story of drinking and its consequences , the recovering alcoholic is often able to get through the Protective denial system of the sufferer so that the sufferer himself or herself , through personal identification with many elements of that story and with the associated feelings , is gradually able to make his or her own diagnosis . |
| 14 | If you have a weekend free , you can do what many west Berliners are now able to do for the first time since 1952 — simple drive into the country and enjoy the landscape of Brandenburg . |
| 15 | A RECENT agreement between the Midland Railway Trust at Butterley — and the Narrow Gauge Railway Association , means that visitors to the Midland Railway Centre are now able to travel on the first stages of the Golden Valley Light Railway at no extra charge . |
| 16 | Recent pluralist work has accepted that class division and class competition are pervasive factors in modern society , and that not all interest groups are equal in power or equally able to compete in the political arena . |
| 17 | As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip . |
| 18 | Extra revenue raised through the tax will be fed back into the economy by reducing other taxes such as VAT and by protecting those least able to adapt to the higher price of energy . |
| 19 | We are then able to rise above the petty considerations of ordinary life and are able to see what is most important — the beauty of human beings . |