Example sentences of "able to work [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Its success can only be ensured by a maximum effort from all those willing and able to work to that end . |
| 2 | He was assessed as only able to work at 50 per cent of the rate for the job and only half his wages were paid under the scheme . |
| 3 | They were able to work on all the routes allocated to that depôt , including 16/18 . |
| 4 | We can then be involved in the setting of performance indicators and carrying out audits , much like we carry out our safety inspections , and that way we may be able to work on joint policies on the environment . |
| 5 | You will need to be able to work for long periods with a high degree of accuracy , and have really good eyesight . |
| 6 | Soon it became clear that Sarah was seriously ill with rheumatic fever and would not be able to work for some time , and another girl , Hetty , was engaged temporarily . |
| 7 | She would not be able to work with such a scene constantly before her eyes . |
| 8 | Joanne has experience as a care assistant already , so she was able to work with other assistants straight away . |
| 9 | Moreover , the oft-repeated statement by teachers that " children do n't understand Dewey Decimal Classification " has been consistently denied by librarians able to work with primary and middle-school pupils , let alone those at the secondary stage . |
| 10 | Engaging in sustained interactions with a relatively small proportion of the class presupposes that the remainder are willing and able to work with little attention . |
| 11 | Rath rather than competing against each other to develop basically their products have got ta be ab able to work with each others machines . |
| 12 | After all , the sentence is one of the building blocks of a piece of prose , so it makes sense to be able to work with whole sentences rather than having to highlight each word within one manually . |
| 13 | If one accepts this , even if only for the present and not as an inevitable fact for the future , then a responsibility lies with hearing society to meet not only the communication requirements of deaf people but also to understand and be able to work with this group in their language . |
| 14 | White says that there are several Ethiopian graduate students working for higher degrees ; they will not now be able to work with Ethiopian material , he says , and this will be detrimental to them and the development of Ethiopian palaeontology . |
| 15 | White says that there are several Ethiopian graduate students working for higher degrees ; they will not now be able to work with Ethiopian material , he says , and this will be detrimental to them and the development of Ethiopian palaeontology . |
| 16 | The spacious premises on the first floor were completely reorganised including a new studio where our designer Jacquie Taylor , is able to work with potential customers creating individual designs on the new H.C.S. desk top computer . |
| 17 | The two will collaborate on a tool set for the NetWare environment and application developers will also be able to work with Unix-based tool sets with which they are already familiar , enabling them to bring applications to market more quickly . |
| 18 | Unfortunately there is no semantic theory currently available that is able to work in such a way for a broad coverage of English . |
| 19 | Using new technologies to their full potential requires trained people , able to work in small teams with a high level of autonomy and to see the potential for new goods and services . |
| 20 | I suppose it takes a pretty special sort of screw to be able to work in those conditions , to choose to work down there , but they were totally inhuman . |