Example sentences of "[am/are] able [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if you 're able to get a salaried position at fifty three in financial services I would suggest you know good luck to you fine . |
| 2 | James Johnston 's hellish screams , torrid streams of abuse and vehement playing sever all traces of decency , and unless you 're familiar with obscure ( and now practically obsolete ) bands like Silver Apples , you 're able to experience a whole new and distinctive way to appreciate the feral and f—ed -up . |
| 3 | Children who are HIV positive , but remain well , are able to lead a normal life . |
| 4 | They are able to form a good relationship with their foster parents and they have the advantages of remaining in a normal setting , going to school , making friends and generally participating in the life of the neighbourhood . |
| 5 | Council officials in Hartlepool have stepped in to ensure that members of the town 's branch of the Durham Light Infantry Association are able to attend a special reunion of wartime comrades . |
| 6 | In such situations , assertive team members who are able to state a strong case but appreciate the genuine needs of others are necessary . |
| 7 | As Fishman has argued , using empirical evidence Maltz and Borker do not match , men are able to use a particular conversational role to underwrite their dominant position in heterosexual relations . |
| 8 | It is where you are able to do a competent presentation but only by investing an enormous amount of conscious effort into every aspect . |
| 9 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 10 | In this chapter we are able to witness a typical day in its life . |
| 11 | The use of the word ‘ lazy ’ here does not imply that those animals are indolent or inefficient but rather that their specialisation is so finely tuned and successful that they are able to spend a great deal of their daily lives sitting , gazing and sleeping . |
| 12 | This is because they are able to attract a wide range of able , graduate-level entrants ; they expect to ( and do ) lose a significant number of those but have the ability to retain the ones that they see as candidates to fill their senior management positions . |
| 13 | If you are able to find a literary agent who will take on your work , the process of having it looked at by publishers will be speeded up for you . |
| 14 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
| 15 | Today 's sedimentologists are able to extract a great deal more information from thin sections by using special techniques to study fabrics , textures , mineralogy and geochemistry . |
| 16 | Our design team are able to offer a complete personal service tailored to your individual requirements . |
| 17 | Our design team are able to offer a complete personal service tailored to your individual requirements . |
| 18 | They are able to offer a wide range of subjects and courses . |
| 19 | None of these " philosophies of mind " , I shall argue , are able to offer a satisfactory clarification of the concept of an experience . |
| 20 | The reasons players are able to build a temporary reputation in the game stem from the way information is processed by the B t 's . |
| 21 | Currently , the chips are able to handle a maximum resolution of 1,024 horizontal by 512 vertical pixels allowing delivery of extremely high resolution still images . |
| 22 | In general , computational linguists are more willing to accept computer systems that are able to process a useful range of language input . |
| 23 | They are most useful in education , because students are able to get a fast turn-round while at the same time learning the principles of operation of a particular software package , and in draft map production , where a cartographer is experimenting with different map designs . |
| 24 | Konrad Lorenz wrote that birds even in total isolation are able to produce a recognisable version of the song of their species . |
| 25 | Both groups are able to show a clear effect of gene dosage ; that is , cells from heterozygous mice which contain only copy of the p53 gene are slightly more resistant to radiation-induced apoptosis than are homozygous normal mice with two copies ( which are highly sensitive ) , while the homozygous null mice with no active copies are highly resistant . |
| 26 | The benefits however extend further , as the tenants are able to afford a decent diet and the landlord will save on maintenance repairs and on condensation claims . |
| 27 | ENPs are able to adopt a holistic approach to their patients : they examine , request appropriate investigations , make a diagnosis , carry out the treatment and discharge patients . |
| 28 | The care attendants are carefully chosen and trained , and are able to help a large cross section of people tied to their homes looking after someone else . |
| 29 | In a management plan which guarantees quality , those who manage are able to make a systematic connection between differing aspects of initial teacher education and differing types of teacher performance in the school . |
| 30 | I suspect there are few poems which are able to make a youthful reader feel at close hand the desperation of the old as I perhaps am able to grasp having read such a beautiful piece of work . |