Example sentences of "[adv] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | After 1848 , the Tsar 's forces were , relative to his rivals , increasingly technically backward ; he was less and less able to intervene as gendarme . |
| 3 | She was apparently able to win at will , despite a strong challenge from Raul Gardini 's Passage of Venice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Central board has recommended acceptance of the offer and says the resulting group will be better able to compete on world markets . |
| 7 | Deutsche Aerospace 's size should make it better able to compete in European and international aerospace projects . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Corpus-based systems are easily able to deal with punctuation . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It usually starts because a much-loved mare is no longer able to work under saddle but could perhaps produce a foal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Jenna felt more able to cope with dignity in her own language and the girl 's face creased into a knowing smile . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And in many abolitionist minds this would ultimately lead to emancipation ; slaves would not only gradually become more able to live in freedom but better conditions would so enhance the population of labourers in the West Indies that it would be cheaper to employ workers on a waged basis than as slaves . |
| 21 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 22 | Women are generally less tied to their work and more able to adjust to retirement ( though as more and more women devote great energy and interest to a career , this is changing ) . |
| 23 | Local authorities , housing associations , community groups , government agencies , private developers and building societies were all represented at the launch , where they were told how Middlesbroughwrought experience and expertise could be applied to similar schemes nationwide , with the SkillBuilding social enterprise company offering guidance on planning , funding , construction and long-term management and also able to act as developer or sub-contractor . |
| 24 | Most institutions are also able to draw on hardship funds of their own , of course . |
| 25 | From notes and other materials he was also able to construct in retrospect a diary of his parliamentary career , covering in particular detail the sessions of 1701–2 , which , surviving in manuscript form , now constitutes his chief claim to fame . |
| 26 | In sum , it enables the body to be most able to deal with danger and to be most efficient physically . |
| 27 | As part of a strategy to achieve self-sufficiency in food , he said , the government was to initiate a three-year pilot programme concentrating resources on 40 districts most able to contribute to food security efforts . |
| 28 | Not only did this dilute the power of the incorporated companies , but there was no replacement by an equivalent power , for the larger and more amorphous body of investors was hardly as able to lobby against interest reductions or other schemes to lessen the weight on government . |
| 29 | But the profit-sharing would have to be ‘ informal ’ as nurses are not legally able to enter into practice partnerships . |
| 30 | This is processor-independent stuff , according to Heath , who says most Reduced Instruction Set Computing 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 . |