Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All adults need to be able to cope with diversity and to expect variety as we live in a highly varied world . |
| 2 | Some are modified to transmit electric impulses and are linked into a network which amounts to a primitive nervous system ; others are able to contract in length and so can be considered as simple muscles . |
| 3 | He was able to plan with precision and enthusiasm the date of his own retirement , to look forward to it because it was in no way forced upon him , and to believe that he would be remembered with affection and regret . |
| 4 | They can not be sure that their children will be able to go to school or that they will receive medical treatment throughout their lives . |
| 5 | If we were really lucky we 'd be able to go to conference and try and sell hundreds of them to other Green Parties who might want to do the same . |
| 6 | The lucky part for me was that I was able to go from school and do what I wanted to do . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Whoever it is needs to be able to see through hype and bullshit . |
| 9 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 10 | A nine year old whose father had just left the family home would be unlikely to be able to concentrate upon mathematics or science if he were beset with worries about his mother . |
| 11 | It usually starts because a much-loved mare is no longer able to work under saddle but could perhaps produce a foal . |
| 12 | Able to work with initiative and minimum supervision you should be a graduate with a high level of communication skills , several years ' experience in water resources and previous experience in dealing with engineering/environmental consultants on water related projects . |
| 13 | Neither Grosbard 's direction nor Gardner 's script is able to come into focus and , as a result , Dustin 's character remains blurred . |
| 14 | I do not mean by that someone who stands in front of a class of children , but a person who is able to pass on wisdom and knowledge to others . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The aim of all parents is to teach their child to become an independent , self-reliant adult , able to participate in life and gain satisfaction . |
| 17 | So if things are to be done quickly , an approach able to look without let or hindrance at problems , even the most deep-seated , is needed : to define them in the clearest terms : to suggest alternative ways to solutions : finally , to seek resources for those solutions . |
| 18 | As earn outs are based on future performance and are only payable in the future , they enable the purchaser to agree to a price it may not be able to afford at completion and which it will not be obliged to pay unless profits are generated . |
| 19 | Poorer EC students will be able to apply for board and lodging grants as well as their fees , on the same basis as British students . |
| 20 | So in this way the Persians were able to advance with ease and the Egyptians were helpless to retaliate . |
| 21 | Thus , using infra-red , he would be able to stare through smoke or darkness . |
| 22 | Through working together the schools are able to buy in expertise and share the costs of producing high quality materials . |
| 23 | For many of them , the classroom will be the first place where they are able to play with water and even spill it on the floor without incurring an adult 's displeasure . |
| 24 | I refer to Julia Kristeva 's somewhat obscure remarks about ‘ the role that the pervert , with his invincible belief in the maternal phallus and his obstinate refusal to recognise the existence of the other sex , has been able to play in anti-semitism and the totalitarian movements that embrace it , . |
| 25 | After that time any light emitted from the star would not be able to escape to infinity but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 26 | No longer is he able to differentiate between fantasy and reality , Father Poole told himself . |
| 27 | It will be able to draw on material and expertise from Murdoch 's American TV Guide , which has a stranglehold on the US market . |
| 28 | It 'd be quite nice for me to be able to pop into town and get a bit of meat or something |
| 29 | She 's not been taking them , she 's been able to sleep at night but she 's sleeping all day and all . |
| 30 | 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 . |