Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Common safeguards If companies in Europe are to deal across national boundaries , it is important that investors , customers and creditors are able to deal with confidence with enterprises from other member states , whether directly , or through their subsidiaries and agencies . |
| 2 | At the other end of the band , many insects , fish and birds are able to see beyond blue into ultraviolet radiation invisible to us . |
| 3 | The prices that different social groups are able to afford for land can be seen as an equivalent to natural species competing for space . |
| 4 | Bats are able to fly with ease and at speed , avoiding the branches of trees , telegraph wires , other bats , etc. , and can catch insects . |
| 5 | Through working together the schools are able to buy in expertise and share the costs of producing high quality materials . |
| 6 | The extent to which individuals are able to participate in employment , leisure and social interaction , for example , will be an indicator of the reality of their ‘ adulthood ’ . |
| 7 | Science-based departments are able to apply to Research Councils for studentships on behalf of some suitably qualified applicants : alternatively , they may be able to offer financial support from an industrial source . |
| 8 | The following sections of this chapter lists the full range of services that MAS and other departments are able to offer in conjunction with an acquisition . |
| 9 | There is a further tactic : by using the night buses travellers are able to save on accommodation : the buses are well equipped with blankets and pillows and high-tech stereo headphones and telephones . |
| 10 | Some are modified to transmit electric impulses and are linked into a network which amounts to a primitive nervous system ; others are able to contract in length and so can be considered as simple muscles . |