Example sentences of "[adv] able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [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 | Desperate to contact Molly , who is unable to see or hear him , Sam discovers that he is only able to communicate with a psychic named Oda Mae Brown ( Whoopee Goldberg ) , a charlatan astonished to discover her powers are authentic . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | An even distribution has an added advantage , the institution will be better able to cope with the Unpredictable . |
| 5 | However , legislation late in the century provided a new local government structure much better able to take on a wide range of functions . |
| 6 | Darwinism implies that some species must triumph over others not because they are fitter in some genetic or athletic sense , but because they are better able to survive in a competitive ambiance . |
| 7 | Larger firms , by virtue of having expanded , are better able to survive in a competitive market . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He withdrew striker Steve Flanagan and brought on young Sean Dowling at right-back , Farnham were thus able to rely on a strong midfield presence of Millard , Daly and May , with Deighan and Stairs looking to stretch Cranleigh wide on the flanks . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As will be seen , there were contemporary factors which favoured any programme that was sufficiently flexible to contribute to administering the " common life " , and thus able to contribute to a newly-important conception of " vocational education " . |
| 13 | In our first encounter with Satan we find him within the burning lake of Hell , having fallen from such a great height to such a great depth and now engulfed in fire , licked by flames , seemingly in pain , according to Milton 's narration , yet still able to speak with an uncanny strength and courage against ‘ the potent Victor ’ ( I. 95 ) . |
| 14 | We were also able to wander around the herbaceous gardens , Pets corner , wildflower meadows and museum of farm implements . |
| 15 | Members were also able to benefit by a special rate to join the Cater Club . |
| 16 | Alternatively , it may be the strategy with which teachers feel most able to cope with the wide range of pupil attainment . |
| 17 | It needs to give details of the type of person seen by the organisation as most able to succeed in the foreign environment . |
| 18 | Many of the industries which are most able to operate on a European-wide basis , are probably already doing so . |
| 19 | ‘ Prof ’ Francis always turned up at celebrity concerts and was often able to slip into an empty seat at intermission . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As they were mainly couples who had been married for a number of years and were now able to move to a larger , more expensive home , their children ranged in age between seven and nineteen years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In responding to children 's writing , teachers are well able to distinguish between an embryonic attempt at a story and a more developed example ; indeed , there is substantial research available on the stages of story-writing through which young writers progress . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |