Example sentences of "[be] [adv] able [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | L. Stettner quotes Sachs : She quotes also from other studies to show that these co-operatives are better able to survive under adversity than are conventionally organised plywood manufacturing firms , and why : in a phrase , higher productivity , so much higher as to result in some cases in value added per labour-hour of more than twice that of those firms . |
| 2 | ‘ Countries such as Hungary , Poland , Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria are already able to apply for observer status before becoming , in due course , parties to the Pharmacopoeia Corporation ’ . |
| 3 | Corpus-based systems are easily able to deal with punctuation . |
| 4 | At present , this option is not available under SSAP 15 , with the result that companies are not able to take into account , at the time the provisions for the obligations are set up , the tax relief that will be received when the benefits are actually paid . |
| 5 | Sir Charles also operates a miniature health service , employing a salaried apothecary who ‘ dispenses physic to all his tenants , who are not able to pay for advice ; nor are the poor who are not his tenants , refused ’ , provided they are recommended by the clergyman . |
| 6 | By contrast , policemen are interested only in what happened on one particular occasion in the past , which they are not able to recreate in laboratory conditions if only because they do not know what happened . |
| 7 | Most institutions are also able to draw on hardship funds of their own , of course . |
| 8 | Since then I have progressed and I am now able to waitress with confidence . |
| 9 | This is processor-independent stuff , according to Heath , who says most Reduced Instruction Set Computing architectures already share common notions in these areas and most are now able to deal with software that is written to either Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering styles . |
| 10 | This is processor-independent stuff , according to Heath , who says most Reduced Instruction Set Computing ( RISC ) architectures already share common notions in these areas and most are now able to deal with software that is written to either Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering styles . |
| 11 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 12 | In sum , it enables the body to be most able to deal with danger and to be most efficient physically . |
| 13 | John Coon , DG 's UK marketing manager , says Technology will be better able to cope with support , and also has a large stock of peripherals on hand . |
| 14 | The Central board has recommended acceptance of the offer and says the resulting group will be better able to compete on world markets . |
| 15 | getting intoxicated is always potentially dangerous : people may become more reckless than usual and be less able to deal with danger |
| 16 | The argument is simple and reflexive : if the body of this book has been about helping teachers to be more able to deal with uncertainty , conflict and change — in a word , to become better learners — then the tail asserts that the core of their job should be to help young people to become good learners in their turn . |
| 17 | And there was enough interest in the sale to prove that home grown Hereford cattle are well able to beat off competition from abroad . |
| 18 | Teenage mothers are least able to cope with motherhood , being often themselves emotionally immature and sometimes physically immature ( Russell 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Though it would be some time before he was released from hospital , he was already better and we were all able to relax with relief . |
| 20 | We were then able to return to Phosphorus which maintained progress . |
| 21 | Children were then able to sit in front of their range dressed up in old fashioned costume and role-play . |
| 22 | In the world of an inside ethnography as Favret-Saada identifies , ‘ one is never able to choose between subjectivism and the objective method as it was taught ’ ( ibid. 23 ) , so long as one wishes to find out answers which , in traditional ethnography , are often missing from the finite corpus of empirical observation . |
| 23 | She was apparently able to win at will , despite a strong challenge from Raul Gardini 's Passage of Venice . |
| 24 | The team was thus able to migrate from planning , through drafting and manufacture , to assembly and commissioning , with up to three exchanging roles at any time . |
| 25 | She was not able to sleep at night , finding herself pushed about in bed . |
| 26 | From notes and other materials he was also able to construct in retrospect a diary of his parliamentary career , covering in particular detail the sessions of 1701–2 , which , surviving in manuscript form , now constitutes his chief claim to fame . |
| 27 | Deng Xiaoping , the moderniser , had survived several purges and was now able to rise to power and take centre stage . |
| 28 | None of this caused any problem at all as it was something Sylvia was well able to do in reality . |
| 29 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 30 | And erm , my wife who 's a teacher had erm a very devastating experience just after I retired so it was erm , it was as well that I retired when I did because I was then able to stay at home and er |