Example sentences of "able to carry [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition . |
| 2 | ‘ We would never have a Labour government able to carry out a Labour programme — even when that programme had won far more votes than any of the other parties . ’ |
| 3 | During the debate Roy Hattersley , the deputy leader , argued that it would be ‘ historic folly ’ for Labour to back proportional representation ; inevitable coalitions would mean that ‘ we would never again have a Labour government that was able to carry out a Labour programme ’ . |
| 4 | The librarian may be able to carry out a relevant literature search . |
| 5 | Evaluation by achievement Performance measurement was carried out after each series of courses , by means of examination of each student 's list of references , in order to see whether the students were able to carry out a practical literature search . |
| 6 | William III , helped by the ‘ Protestant wind ’ that kept the English navy pinned in harbour while William 's Dutch fleet could choose a convenient place to land , was able to carry out a successful invasion with quite a substantial military force , so the events of the 1680s underlined the possibility that James II might be able to make a successful return from exile . |
| 7 | Most commentators , from the 1968 Select Committee onwards , argue that HM Inspectorate should not expand to the extent that it is able to carry out a full programme of regular inspections ( Hopkins , 1982 , is an exception ) . |
| 8 | The organization 's ship , the MV Greenpeace , was eventually able to carry out a limited monitoring of oil slicks , with Iranian scientists and military personnel on board . |
| 9 | On April 6th , unbeknown to the Hohenzollern Crown Prince , he was asking Crown Prince Rupprecht whether his Sixth Army might not be able to carry out a swift blow at Arras , against the British Army , whose anticipated ( by Falkenhayn ) relief attack had not yet materialised . |
| 10 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |