Example sentences of "able to use the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We are fortunate inbeing able to use the video camera at training weekends and once you have over come the shock of seeing yourself , most students find it a valuable addition to their training .
2 Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ .
3 Borrowers are able to use the facility up to 140 per cent of their quota over a four-year period and with much more relaxed repayment conditions than the normal facilities .
4 People with Parkinson 's disease , epilepsy , Alzheimer 's disease , motor neurone disease , multiple sclerosis , stroke and other less well known illnesses such as the inherited degenerative disease Friedreich 's ataxia will all be able to use the centre .
5 ‘ Why was it that men , management and union together , were able to use the union to control women 's wages ? ’
6 ‘ Actually , ’ Roirbak said , having just thought of it , ‘ we may be able to use the natro group Star Eye to help your friend leave the city .
7 As a result , we would no longer be able to use the concepts of material things in the way we normally use them and the question whether something observed on one occasion is identical with something else observed on a different occasion would not even arise .
8 Some people are already and perhaps unknowingly able to use the rules , such as those who run a taxable business and already have exempt rental income .
9 Pupils should come to understand that because writers are not able to use the voice to emphasise key points in a sentence , they have to use a wide range of grammatical structures ( such as the passive , or other alterations of word order ) to bring about the desired emphasis .
10 He did not find the relevant information , but was able to use the Prestel mailbox facility to send a message to COIC .
11 The cheesemaker has the best control over his cheese if he is able to use the milk from his own flock or herd — he then knows exactly what he is getting and where the animals have been grazed as the type of grass and subsoil contributes much to the flavour of the milk and then the cheese .
12 Third , it is made public , that is , shared with others who may be able to use the findings or build upon them .
13 Third , it is made public , ie , shared with others who may be able to use the findings or build upon them .
14 Certainly , you will not be able to use the vehicle 's former military number plate on public roads .
15 It would mean firemen in the north of the county would be able to use the vehicle , as well as those in Darlington and the south .
16 ‘ We will be able to use the £8m to develop new industrial sites and new factories , to help finance environmental improvements , and for business and community support schemes . ’
17 In respect of a job requiring ability to access , input and retrieve information from a computer , it would not be essential that the employee is able to use the keyboard or read the visual display if adaptive equipment or software would enable a disabled person to undertake the work , albeit in a different manner .
18 Once the European Economic Area arrangements are implemented in any EFTA state , that state is treated as a Member State of the EC for this purpose and banks incorporated in it will also be able to use the passport and will thus also be relevant European institutions .
19 Thus when NHS wide networking is introduced it will be able to use the Read codes for communicating clinical information throughout the NHS .
20 The stock objection to Locke 's identification of the ‘ idea ’ that is the meaning of the word ‘ pain' with the ‘ idea ’ , the feeling or sensation , that is caused in us when we eat too much manna is that what someone needs , in order to be able to use the word ‘ pain' meaningfully , is not pain , but the concept ‘ pain' .
21 In order for these conditions to prevail it is essential that the pupils are able to use the software without the assistance of an adult .
22 Personal computer and workstation manufacturers are expected to be able to use the board to build powerful file servers in the $10,000 price bracket .
23 I note that pedestrians and , I assume , pedal cyclists pushing their bikes will be able to use the road during the closure and that access will be available to property .
24 Because of this , as Mr Henderson explains : ‘ It was able to use the output from that to build its Micro Control application in two days and completely circumvent the need for the mainframe . ’
25 Brave Paul , pictured , has only recently been able to use the bike as he battles against the illness .
26 For Robbe-Grillet in particular , this was also a philosophical and quasi-sociological necessity , mirroring the dehumanization and alienation of man in modern society — a critique which would later be adapted by the Marxist theorist Lucien Goldmann — in Pour une sociologie du roman ( 1964 ) — who was able to use the concept of reification as a means of explaining the chosisme of Robbe-Grillet 's early novels and the subversion of character in the nouveau roman generally .
27 Under the terms of the initial agreement , Thomson-CSF will be able to use the PowerPC architecture to develop digital processing functions for its equipment and will be licensed to manufacture some microprocessors from the PowerPC family and customise them for defence and aerospace applications .
28 I mean the seventy fifth we 're going to be able to use the window to great advantage , it 's going to be a great display time .
29 The final section shows how Sri Lankans were none the less able to use the courts as a legitimate and acceptable , if sometimes disreputable , way to solve disputes .
30 It 's called the Hotel Leisure and Conference Centre , it 's actually based at Chorley or Charley if you come from that neck of the woods and er everybody that goes will be able to use the lagoon swimming pool er or challenge someone to a game of squash on one of our six courts .
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