Example sentences of "[adv] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | getting intoxicated is always potentially dangerous : people may become more reckless than usual and be less able to deal with danger |
| 2 | In the country generally , two-thirds of those are in the C2 , DE categories , which by any socio-economic definition will be the less prosperous end of the market and less able to cope with rises of 17.5 per cent eventually in the cost of a basic part of the household budget . |
| 3 | Without the republicans the Labour left would have remained abstract propagandists ; without the Labour left , the republicans would have been less able to communicate to people in Derry and beyond . |
| 4 | After 1848 , the Tsar 's forces were , relative to his rivals , increasingly technically backward ; he was less and less able to intervene as gendarme . |
| 5 | She was apparently able to win at will , despite a strong challenge from Raul Gardini 's Passage of Venice . |
| 6 | Consequently , such marketing boards have frequently found themselves in a price squeeze , unable to offer a price high enough to producers , but only able to sell to consumers at a loss . |
| 7 | John Coon , DG 's UK marketing manager , says Technology will be better able to cope with support , and also has a large stock of peripherals on hand . |
| 8 | L. Stettner quotes Sachs : She quotes also from other studies to show that these co-operatives are better able to survive under adversity than are conventionally organised plywood manufacturing firms , and why : in a phrase , higher productivity , so much higher as to result in some cases in value added per labour-hour of more than twice that of those firms . |
| 9 | The Central board has recommended acceptance of the offer and says the resulting group will be better able to compete on world markets . |
| 10 | Deutsche Aerospace 's size should make it better able to compete in European and international aerospace projects . |
| 11 | Hard as he is working on the switch , it may be that Bayfield is being groomed in the rigours of international rugby so as to be better able to step into Dooley 's shoes when he finally retires , probably at the end of this season . |
| 12 | Though it would be some time before he was released from hospital , he was already better and we were all able to relax with relief . |
| 13 | Corpus-based systems are easily able to deal with punctuation . |
| 14 | ‘ Countries such as Hungary , Poland , Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria are already able to apply for observer status before becoming , in due course , parties to the Pharmacopoeia Corporation ’ . |
| 15 | Of course , that leaves us with the problem raised in the first chapter — the extent to which such old people feel they are no longer able to engage in transactions which benefit others as well as themselves . |
| 16 | Her plans to move away from London meant that she was no longer able to continue as director of the Display Team and she was warmly thanked for everything she had done in the past . |
| 17 | By the 1960s the London ring 's increase had fallen and was no longer able to compensate for core losses , leading to a massive net loss in the SMLA as a whole . |
| 18 | According to this reading , the repetition of episodes and the lack of a linear structure can be regarded as being in keeping with the formal realism of a narrative which is being conducted by someone whose overwrought state of mind colours his perception of the world around him , and who is no longer able to distinguish between imagination and reality . |
| 19 | It usually starts because a much-loved mare is no longer able to work under saddle but could perhaps produce a foal . |
| 20 | The team was thus able to migrate from planning , through drafting and manufacture , to assembly and commissioning , with up to three exchanging roles at any time . |
| 21 | In April they were finally able to move into Kensington Court Gardens , off High Street Kensington . |
| 22 | They got their chance to delve into the details at a news conference … but Chris Dean also got the chance to say how pleased he and Jayne are to be in the region and finally able to stay at home . |
| 23 | She drove across the bridge into Cookham , scarcely able to see for tears of shock and anger . |
| 24 | In contrast to the chances afforded by the cotton mills , consider Davies ' comment of 1795 on the condition of Berkshire farm labourers ' families , scarcely able to live on wages of 8 to 9s ( 40-45p ) a week , whose wives earned only from 6d to 1s ( 2½ — 5p ) weekly when their seasonal and casual earnings were averaged out . |
| 25 | Hugh was now wandering in his speech and scarcely able to stand without Marian 's help . |
| 26 | And we knew how frightened she was , how disturbed , because Luke told us that — told us fresh from her bed and hardly able to speak for laughter . ’ |
| 27 | In addition , firms will be more able to respond to changes in demand by innovating and providing new products , once they are released from the bureaucratic requirements of state control . |
| 28 | A sensitivity to this type of variation should contribute towards pupils becoming more tolerant of linguistic diversity , more aware of the richness it can provide and more able to cope with problems of communication . |
| 29 | Jenna felt more able to cope with dignity in her own language and the girl 's face creased into a knowing smile . |
| 30 | The argument is simple and reflexive : if the body of this book has been about helping teachers to be more able to deal with uncertainty , conflict and change — in a word , to become better learners — then the tail asserts that the core of their job should be to help young people to become good learners in their turn . |