Example sentences of "[adv] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is processor-independent stuff , according to Heath , who says most Reduced Instruction Set Computing ( RISC ) architectures already share common notions in these areas and most are now able to deal with software that is written to either Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering styles . |
| 32 | His strong , demanding fingers interrogated the lymph glands in my neck and armpits while Kenneth , now able to converse with authority on the subject , told him about John Habeshaw 's visit and our newly-arrived-at decision to visit Stanford University . |
| 33 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 34 | Since then I have progressed and I am now able to waitress with confidence . |
| 35 | Deng Xiaoping , the moderniser , had survived several purges and was now able to rise to power and take centre stage . |
| 36 | After the completion of the Ring cycle , the Berlin orchestra now able to compete in territory that was once the special preserve of its Viennese cousin , Karajan both consolidated and extended the repertory during the 1970s , the music-making continuing to intensify both tonally , and emotionally as Karajan became older and more and more subject to personal trials and privations . |
| 37 | We seem increasingly able to talk about sex , but wholly unable to talk about our own ageing and our feelings about it . |
| 38 | None of this caused any problem at all as it was something Sylvia was well able to do in reality . |
| 39 | And there was enough interest in the sale to prove that home grown Hereford cattle are well able to beat off competition from abroad . |
| 40 | If that point , which coach Douglas Morgan had amplified repeatedly in last week 's aftermath , still needs re-inforcing , the coach was at least able to reflect with satisfaction on the birth-pangs of Scotland 's try . |
| 41 | If that point , which coach Douglas Morgan had amplified repeatedly in last week 's aftermath , still needs re-inforcing , the coach was at least able to reflect with satisfaction on the birth-pangs of Scotland 's try . |
| 42 | ‘ I would hope at the very least the council will review it after three months and consult the disabled , town centre traders and shopkeepers , otherwise we will end up with ghost streets closed off to those least able to move about town . ’ |
| 43 | Teenage mothers are least able to cope with motherhood , being often themselves emotionally immature and sometimes physically immature ( Russell 1981 ) . |
| 44 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 45 | Children were then able to sit in front of their range dressed up in old fashioned costume and role-play . |
| 46 | We were then able to return to Phosphorus which maintained progress . |
| 47 | And erm , my wife who 's a teacher had erm a very devastating experience just after I retired so it was erm , it was as well that I retired when I did because I was then able to stay at home and er |
| 48 | Currently able to call upon cash and borrowings of £16bn , he is the most feared man in business on both sides of the Atlantic , sending shivers down the spine of even the biggest company . |
| 49 | In the world of an inside ethnography as Favret-Saada identifies , ‘ one is never able to choose between subjectivism and the objective method as it was taught ’ ( ibid. 23 ) , so long as one wishes to find out answers which , in traditional ethnography , are often missing from the finite corpus of empirical observation . |