Example sentences of "[is] able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't support this blanket band of reducing surplus places for the sake of reducing surplus places , like the district auditor , and if quote right , it 's an accountant looking at erm , looking at figures and nothing else , and I think that is the problem with the issue , erm , we 've seen in other schools , in larger schools , where they 've developed erm , classrooms into a decent library , or resource area , but in the , in the , in the overall spectrum they 're still counted as classroom spaces , and if that classroom was put back er in , into a class , the school would suffer environmentally , because that school would have no library facilities , no resource facilities which it 's able to appreciate at the present time . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , we still have relatively little idea of how the child is able to move from a practical understanding of how , for example , objects change location as a result of actions performed by people , to the more abstract and general understanding of semantic categories such as agent , action and object , which provide the basis for early syntax ( Bowerman 1976 ) . |
| 3 | For illustrative purposes , he uses the example of another similar manufacturer ( whose identity , he reports , he must keep secret ) who is able to conform to a one p.p.m zinc requirement . |
| 4 | It may be asked why , if we have had this enormous devolution and if Parliament , with a unitary system , is able to respond to the distinct needs of Scotland , this should not continue . |
| 5 | The basic algorithm provided with the ANLT is able to deal with the lexical ambiguity ( the ability of words to belong to more than one syntactic category ) . |
| 6 | Here the faculty is able to draw on the wide range of professional musicians who reside in Edinburgh or visit regularly . |
| 7 | In lighter infections , common in older dogs , the anaemia is not so severe , as the marrow response is able to compensate for a variable period . |
| 8 | The generative system is able to operate on a sentential level rather than simply consider local word combinations . |
| 9 | In ( 119 ) the bare infinitive do is the equivalent of " who did " and it is only by means of the indefinite pronoun anyone that the speaker is able to generalize from the particular performance of the event do which was directly experienced . |
| 10 | This point may sound very obvious , but it is seen to be crucial when one party to the contract is looking for a way to get out of his contractual obligations and is able to seize upon an ill-defined point . |
| 11 | It is now widely believed that no British government is able to govern without the tacit support of the trade union movement . |
| 12 | The Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 13 | Commenting on its reduced second quarter loss ( figures , page seven ) , Data General Corp said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future ; the Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 14 | The essence of counselling in the " Minnesota model " , used in treatment centres that follow the principles of the Anonymous Fellowships , is that each counsellor or other staff member is able to identify with a particular facet of an individual sufferer . |