Example sentences of "[am/are] able [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a further tactic : by using the night buses travellers are able to save on accommodation : the buses are well equipped with blankets and pillows and high-tech stereo headphones and telephones . |
| 2 | However , just the fact that you are able to insist on interest does give you some leverage when asking for your account to be paid . |
| 3 | Organisations with established DP departments require staff who are able to take on software " development " work ( modifying , adding to , or creating new software systems ) as required , but who , in the interim , will also undertake " maintenance " work ( keeping the system running ) . |
| 4 | Thus structuralists , as Lukes argued , are able to take on board the insights of elite and pluralist theories and explain why it is that despite a pluralist system the capitalist ruling class is still able to dominate society even without the use of direct repression . |
| 5 | The caterpillars of the monarch butterfly , surprisingly , are able to feed on milkweed without taking any of these precautions . |
| 6 | Reptiles differ from amphibians in that , because of the development of the amniote egg , they are able to breed on land as well as live there most of the time . |