Example sentences of "able to take [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 2 | It seems to be reasonably unstressed , we should be able to take a look at something else , now let's go over there again . |
| 3 | It was about a fortnight after I arrived in Punta Arenas that he showed me his journal and I was able to take a translation of those entries . |
| 4 | able to take a weekend away more or less on impulse ; |
| 5 | Further studies will then be able to take a sampling frame which is representative of the national spectrum of small hotel businesses ; to consider specific issues highlighted in the pilot study ( aspects of the uptake of information technology , the need for training programmes , and the development of co-operative marketing schemes ) ; and to develop conceptual and theoretical issues relating to behavioural matters ( for example , population migration and job shift ) ; together with investment ; and marketing decision making . |
| 6 | A graduate in psychology , archaeology or Oriental studies is not able to take a PGCE Primary course on the grounds ( I assume ) that such specialisms are inappropriate to the primary school setting . |
| 7 | Canadian Pacific Railways and he was able to take a lot of people from the place he was born in out to Canada . |
| 8 | And er now the group are beginning to be able to take a lot of pride in what they 've done , you know , changing it from a jungle into a productive allotment . |
| 9 | In the long vacation , a graduate wishing to stay a week or more may be able to take a room in the Margery Fry and Elizabeth Nuffield House and cater for herself . |
| 10 | That 's where Dogs Today was able to take a hand . |
| 11 | She has the rare gift of being able to take a joke against herself , and her command of words and easy rapport enable her to come up with a quick response to most situations . |
| 12 | Along with other members of my family I have been able to take a cycle on trains from Edinburgh to Stirling or Dunblane . |
| 13 | I wished I 'd been able to take a photograph of gaunt-face , but I 'd been more keen to listen . |
| 14 | Up he went to the ledge overlooking the Dress Circle , on which he was able to take a stance — although today it is usually ignored in the thrust of a runout towards the top . |
| 15 | Feeling battered in mind and body by the time Laura announced that she felt able to take a break — and how about an early lunch ? — Anita could do no more than give her a dumb nod of agreement . |
| 16 | I also establish safety by showing I 'm able to take a hell of a lot of flack and stress and if they go to pieces , I 'll be there . |
| 17 | Nor will he be able to take a sabbatical to formulate the complex structures of meaning lodged deep in the empirical material , which Lévi-Strauss ( 1976 : 80 ) has argued are capable of linking together symbolic and metaphoric programmes to ‘ reveal properties not immediately accessible to the ( empirical ) observation ’ . |
| 18 | And , if you find yourself short of capital at any time , you may be able to take a loan which you can repay using the tax-free cash sum available at retirement . |
| 19 | Imagine a Trade Secretary who promises a degree of interventionism , with even a dash of implicit ‘ corporatism ’ , stresses the importance of industry being able to take a longerterm view , with a programme of investment in skills and training , and warns of the dangers of takeover mania . |
| 20 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 21 | After some 20 months I was able to take a trade test and become a Leading Aircraftsman getting nearly £2 a week , One of the notorious figures at Cranwell at this time was Aircraftsman Shaw ( the legendary Col T.E . |
| 22 | Often they lend as little as ten piasters knowing they will be able to take the borrower 's scrap of land , his house — and his wife and daughters too probably — when he fails to repay . " |
| 23 | Keith 's family ca n't afford any more legal fees and wo n't be able to take the fight any further . |
| 24 | Providing he can install a little discipline , the next governor may also be able to take the credit for cleaning up Arizona 's politics . |
| 25 | Nor does the system guarantee that the barrister of the solicitor 's choice will be able to take the case and in minor cases , last minute changes of barrister are fairly common . |
| 26 | Such a situation also undermines the role of district nurses and health visitors if they have to go through that procedure when they know that they should be able to take the responsibility . |
| 27 | He played in all four rounds and was still able to take the weekend off . |
| 28 | These statistics expressed in terms of expectation of life testify even more vividly to the distance Western society has travelled in being able to take the survival of our children almost for granted . |
| 29 | The current system ( Keenan and Evett , 1989 ) requires a significantly simpler morphological system which is able to take the character lattice output from the recognition stage and return the words that may be formed from the lattice and the grammatical information for those words . |
| 30 | Cos the st er you could , you might be able to take the stand cos it 's got ta be pretty er hefty . |