Example sentences of "[adv] able [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more instructions , more and more complex in their nature descended more and more frequently upon local offices , but without any adequately effective co-ordination at the Headquarters level to ensure that those in the outfield had a clear enough idea of what their order of priorities should be as they became less and less able to deal effectively with the totality of their responsibilities . |
| 2 | Because the elite , through their superior wealth , are better able to live up to the so-called modern values , which are all the more costly to support because of their external source , they are further differentiated from the poor . |
| 3 | The simplest one is that the world would be a better place if people were better able to talk coherently about the many language problems which arise in contemporary society . |
| 4 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 5 | ‘ We thought it was as good an excuse as any and we were all able to get away at the same time . |
| 6 | The safety factor was also important as older people were not so able to jump out of the way of stock or swinging gates . |
| 7 | Such contracts are normally able to run smoothly without a permanent overseas presence . |
| 8 | I am usually able to come up with an idea |
| 9 | His drawings were so clear and he was always able to get directly to the important issues . |
| 10 | ‘ Some of the residents are still able to go over to the shops . |
| 11 | Individuals have a wider range of duties , and are often able to contribute more to the achievements of the organisation , compared with the achievements of individuals in large organisations . |
| 12 | During this period of numbness , people are perfectly able to carry on with the practicalities of living . |
| 13 | Will he find time to consider the plight of my constituent , Mrs. Christine Williamson , who , after 25 years at home nursing a severely disabled child is now able to go back into the labour market , but finds herself in a Catch-22 situation ? |
| 14 | With goods and people from EC states now able to move freely within the Continent , officers are having to carry out more specialist work to prevent drugs reaching the streets . |
| 15 | Nevertheless dinosaurs , remarkably , were frequently able to stay ahead in the game . |
| 16 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 17 | By first establishing a formal highpoint , the critics are then able to look down upon the content , ‘ objectively ’ pointing out the division which they claim exists ( which in fact they have helped to construct ) between the two . |
| 18 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 19 | Designed by Derek Gardner , it was a world-beater ; by the time it was fully developed during the 1971 season , Jackie was again able to run away with the championship , scoring nearly twice as many points as his nearest rival , Ronnie Peterson . |