Example sentences of "able to buy the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to use a different yarn and , especially for readers overseas who may not be able to buy the originals , the yarns shown are actual size so that you can compare your substitute yarn with the original . |
| 2 | If you want to use a different yarn and , especially for readers overseas who may not be able to buy the originals , the yarns are shown actual size so that you can compare your substitute yarn with the original . |
| 3 | For this implies that if there is an unexpected rise in demand in period t consumers will not be able to buy the quantity of the good they at time period t - 1 , or ex ante , considered optimal at the set price . |
| 4 | if you may or may not remember we were able to buy the D U S from Holland on it |
| 5 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 6 | Companies which decide the cost of clean-up is too high will be able to buy the pollution permits in a new futures market at the Chicago Board of Trade . |
| 7 | Jonathan Hastings-Day , vice-chairman of the Conservative Disability Group , said the disabled should be able to buy the services they need from privately run agencies : ‘ I am sick to death of social workers sitting around having case conferences . |
| 8 | The interdiction de sortie preventing ‘ Les villas a Bordighera ’ from going abroad had seriously affected its market value and G.A.N. were able to buy the painting for FFr24 million . |
| 9 | You would therefore need to be able to buy the Metro for about £5,200 cash or less to be better off financing the deal yourself . |
| 10 | The team , led by Brian Cowie and Bob Wales , were able to buy the brewery from their employers , Brent Walker , after Ipswich council had slapped a planning order on the brewery site , stopping BW 's redevelopment plans . |
| 11 | Parsytec has received assurances from Inmos that it will be able to buy the transputer in large enough numbers to build the computers . |
| 12 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 13 | It was a genuine privilege to work with them because you could be the richest person in the world and then some , and still not be able to buy the experience that they carried within them . |
| 14 | When these people copy games they ca n't be damaging the software market , because they 're not able to buy the software anyway . |
| 15 | The only means of advance now is for those able to buy the council house in which they live . |
| 16 | But once again the money ran out before sufficient audiences could be attracted to the new policies of temperance and self-improvement , and in 1884 it was the millionaire textile manufacturer and Liberal MP , Samuel Morley [ q.v. ] , who came to the rescue of Emma and her theatre with interim funding , which led eventually to support from the charity commissioners and other private sponsorship with which , in 1891 , Emma Cons was able to buy the freehold of the theatre and dedicate it to musical and other entertainments of an uplifting or educational nature . |
| 17 | When the houses are complete , the builders and their families will be able to buy the homes at a 25pc discount . |
| 18 | It is a massive redistribution of wealth from one owner ( the Government , on behalf of everyone in the country ) to a much narrower segment of the population ( the 4 to 5 million likely to take up the offer ) who will be able to buy the assets at a discount . |
| 19 | It is a massive redistribution of wealth from one owner ( the Government , on behalf of everyone in the country ) to a much narrower segment of the population ( the 4 to 5 million likely to take up the offer ) who will be able to buy the assets at a discount . |
| 20 | After the First World War she added ice-cream to her stock-in-trade , and soon she was able to buy the shop outright . |
| 21 | Pat had come to him and asked to be able to buy the shop — not with any money she had available at that time , but on a never-never basis , letting him have a share in the takings until the value of the business had been reached . |
| 22 | Gerda and I got a bank loan , and I was able to buy the farm back . |
| 23 | Erm but will you make , be able to make much profit on the on your old Chiswick house to be able to buy the Weybridge one , will that be an economic move ? |
| 24 | The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance . |