Example sentences of "[is] able [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't support this blanket band of reducing surplus places for the sake of reducing surplus places , like the district auditor , and if quote right , it 's an accountant looking at erm , looking at figures and nothing else , and I think that is the problem with the issue , erm , we 've seen in other schools , in larger schools , where they 've developed erm , classrooms into a decent library , or resource area , but in the , in the , in the overall spectrum they 're still counted as classroom spaces , and if that classroom was put back er in , into a class , the school would suffer environmentally , because that school would have no library facilities , no resource facilities which it 's able to appreciate at the present time . |
| 2 | And while Jo 's able to shrug off the speculation , she can understand why Craig , who 's just as down-to-earth , might shun the limelight . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , we still have relatively little idea of how the child is able to move from a practical understanding of how , for example , objects change location as a result of actions performed by people , to the more abstract and general understanding of semantic categories such as agent , action and object , which provide the basis for early syntax ( Bowerman 1976 ) . |
| 4 | Through the relationship , the counsellor is able to explore with the counsellee all the feelings , especially the negative feelings of inadequacy , guilt and worthlessness , which they harbour about themselves . |
| 5 | Herodotus 's Histories and Aeschylus 's Agamemnon serve as touchstones for Brooke-Rose 's novel , for in going back to the classical period , it is able to return to the point at which these distinctions began to be associated with different ways of talking and writing attributed to fact and to fiction . |
| 6 | You can work out the number of fish a pond is able to support from the surface area and size of fish . |
| 7 | He is totally aware that he is able to cope with every situation . |
| 8 | How well he is able to cope with the situation will depend partly on his age at the time and partly on how carefully the adults around him handle the situation . |
| 9 | For illustrative purposes , he uses the example of another similar manufacturer ( whose identity , he reports , he must keep secret ) who is able to conform to a one p.p.m zinc requirement . |
| 10 | He is able to render in a " compact " phrase " rivers shrunken " , but has to render expansively , as " pass … and travel to the sea " ( much like Old Father Thames ) , simply because he needs a rhyme for " tree " . |
| 11 | It may be asked why , if we have had this enormous devolution and if Parliament , with a unitary system , is able to respond to the distinct needs of Scotland , this should not continue . |
| 12 | The basic algorithm provided with the ANLT is able to deal with the lexical ambiguity ( the ability of words to belong to more than one syntactic category ) . |
| 13 | They are written in terms of what the student is able to demonstrate as a result of learning rather than in terms of what a student will have to do to achieve the competences . |
| 14 | Both authors argue for a stylistic analysis that recognises the inherently dialogic nature of all kinds of discourse , and that is able to discriminate between the multiplicity of voices and ideological accents that characterise not only the language of the novel , but also that of poetry and drama . |
| 15 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 16 | Where an innocent purchaser is able to rely upon an estoppel , property in the goods passes to him in the normal way , i.e. as if his seller himself has good title to give . |
| 17 | Even though the prosecutor is able to rely upon the principles of complicity to establish that the particular defendant was guilty , he still has to show that the defendant was encouraging others to use the conduct in question . |
| 18 | He is able to draw on a wealth of experience and he has attacked all his duties with surprisingly youthful enthusiasm , tempered with a great deal of patience . |
| 19 | A pen ( or stylus ) is able to draw on the LCD-screen and be shown as electronic ink . |
| 20 | Here the faculty is able to draw on the wide range of professional musicians who reside in Edinburgh or visit regularly . |
| 21 | Then the duplicate breaks free and is able to act as a mould in its own right . |
| 22 | Sodium nitroprusside is able to act as a donor of NO . |
| 23 | The firm is able to act within the FSA but unlike traditional lead advisers ( i.e. the merchant banks ) is governed by an Institute and not as a member of the Stock Exchange or Securities and Futures Authority . |
| 24 | Only Salvatore Spinelli , a lawyer who represents many of the city 's private hauliers , is able to say with a straight face that intimidation is ‘ a myth ’ . |
| 25 | The above fee scale does not cover any other assistance KPMG is able to provide within the field of M&A support . |
| 26 | In lighter infections , common in older dogs , the anaemia is not so severe , as the marrow response is able to compensate for a variable period . |
| 27 | On each of these points he is able to expand as the result of more detailed observation into which he also introduces his own speculations , as in " it has been broke of [ sic ] through a natural cause because of the texture " . |
| 28 | The analyst is able to understand in a way that subjects can not , what is ‘ objectively possible ’ for a class consciousness at a particular point in history . |
| 29 | Each stage of processing is able to contribute to the score of each reading . |
| 30 | In this way the patient 's confidence grows during the course of the single session and he is able to bring to the forefront of his mind the relevant period in his life . |