Example sentences of "be 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 . |
| 7 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 8 | For Hardy , who had written in a letter to Thomas Macquoid , ‘ I am glad you like Tess — though I have not been able to put on paper all that she is , or was , to me ’ , it was ‘ the beginning of the end of his career as a novelist ’ . |
| 9 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
| 10 | Up to 1946 , Truman had been able to rely on support from both Democrats and Republicans in dealing with the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | Manuel had not been able to improve on par the first day but everyone knew he was capable of making up a lot of leeway with one of his famous ‘ charges . ’ |
| 12 | Both bodies have been able to comment on draft PPGs and MPGs and have secured a number of improvements to their content . |
| 13 | As a result BIS has been able to focus on service provision and customer care and support , and the development of an attractive portfolio of gateways to third party services . |
| 14 | It will be able to draw on material and expertise from Murdoch 's American TV Guide , which has a stranglehold on the US market . |
| 15 | Demands for a cutback in Scottish MP numbers are fuelled by criticism of the fact that they would be able to vote on English and Welsh matters while MPs from England and Wales would not be able to vote on such matters in Scotland . |
| 16 | The candidate whose immediate queries are along the lines of , ‘ When will I get my first pay rise ? ’ , or ‘ Will I be able to go on holiday in July ? ’ will probably not be putting the job first and certainly lacks the good sense and tact to make it appear to be the priority . |
| 17 | I 'm wondering if I should ring them actually , from unit , and ask them if tell them what 's happening and will she be able to go on Income Support if she does give it up ? |
| 18 | A business that depends on its trained work force may be able to take on board those extra restrictions on profitability . |
| 19 | We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify . |
| 20 | How lucky Dmitri was to be able to stride on stage and become someone entirely different . |
| 21 | The yeast would be manipulated to express the gene and to manufacture the enzyme in large quantities , and eventually be able to thrive on hexachlorobenzene and other offending compounds . |
| 22 | They should also be able to call on information technology , in the form of good computers , software , presentational aids , and communication facilities . |
| 23 | So , as the couple fly off for another holiday in Richard 's private jet , they can be happy in the knowledge that in the unlikely event that Richard should ever loose his millions , they 'll be able to live on love . |
| 24 | You will be able to put on group performances . |
| 25 | Some of our friends have no speech , but if we have thought about the symbol , we will be able to speak on behalf of our friends . |
| 26 | When the base is squeezed by open-market operations , etc. , the banks may be able to economize on cash balances by encouraging customers to switch to time accounts which have less risk of large cash withdrawals . |
| 27 | They need to be able to recognise on sight a large proportion of the words they encounter and to be able to predict meaning on the basis of phonic , idiomatic and grammatical regularities and of what makes sense in context ; children should be encouraged to make informed guesses . |
| 28 | Should a big enough gap open up at just the right time , then you will be able to stay on port and merely harden up to cross the line . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll make her my wife , ’ he declared to himself , ‘ or I 'll never be able to concentrate on work again ! ’ |
| 30 | However , a solicitor is unlikely to be able to concentrate on advocacy as a barrister can . |