Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 2 | A married man living with his wife may also be able to claim part of the married couple 's allowance . |
| 3 | It seems unreasonable that with respect to the United States Nicaragua was able to claim invalidity of the 1914 treaty and not be liable for non-performance . |
| 4 | Security of tenure , subject to their landlord being able to regain possession of the property on certain defined grounds , i.e. if they do not pay their rent . |
| 5 | Over the next few hours , however , the latter were able to regain control of the situation and turn it to their advantage . |
| 6 | It was only by convincing political authorities , the religious denominations , and the agents of respectable opinion that they were responsible citizens that showmen were able to retain control of the highly profitable business that they had created . |
| 7 | On the stage you would n't make that mistake , you 'd be able to keep track of the identity . |
| 8 | But this would make nonsense of events at the end of April , when Gloucester was able to seize possession of the prince from an unsuspecting earl Rivers . |
| 9 | But this would make nonsense of events at the end of April , when Gloucester was able to seize possession of the prince from an unsuspecting earl Rivers . |
| 10 | The British polymath Thomas Young ( 1773–1829 ) , using the fact that the name of Ptolemy appeared several times , was able to decipher part of the hieroglyphics . |
| 11 | You may be required to pay up front for any treatment and will only be able to reclaim part of the cost . |
| 12 | For example , he was able to reconcile membership of the Church of England ( rather High ) with belonging to such occult groups as the Order of the Golden Dawn . |
| 13 | Labour may not have been able to maintain control of the municipal sphere for a prolonged period , but it had built a strong tradition of formal political activity which was to form the basis of hegemonic power in the interwar years . |
| 14 | Christine 's former boy-friend Robert Broxup called for an inquiry into how the youngster was able to get hold of the acid . |
| 15 | Yet Hobbins would not have been able to get hold of the bullets if a broken cabinet in his barracks had been repaired . |
| 16 | You should be able to get hold of the full terms of any guarantee the supplier is offering . |
| 17 | You should be able to get hold of the full terms of any guarantee the supplier is offering . |
| 18 | ‘ We have n't been able to get hold of the boy concerned since he and his family moved away soon after the incident , whatever it was . |
| 19 | By 1966 , the Church was better able to take advantage of the new interest in its separatist stance because it now had a core of Ulstermen who had been converted under Ian Paisley s preaching and who had grown up with his politicized evangelicalism . |
| 20 | It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard . |
| 21 | In Mexico , the private sector was able to take advantage of the new seeds , but the peasants on ejido land , often unable to get credit and farming for the first three years without fertilisers were not so productive . |
| 22 | Those who benefited from improved earnings , however , were not the rural poor , but the farmers who were able to take advantage of the opportunities the Green Revolution had to offer . |
| 23 | Rural-urban migrants were able to take advantage of the former , often sending financial assistance back to their relatives in the countryside and so contributing to increased income levels there . |
| 24 | The entrepreneurs in this case were able to take advantage of the low costs of the informal sector , but also use the modern facilities of the formal . |
| 25 | Concessionaires usually employ their own staff , but are able to take advantage of the facilities offered by the department store , together with its advertising , and its larger numbers of customers . |
| 26 | The extent to which a child is able to take advantage of the learning opportunities , which are made available within a particular setting on a day-to-day basis , will be a major factor in influencing how much progress occurs . |
| 27 | One researcher was Ignaty Steletsky , who in the 1920s was able to take advantage of the fact that the Moscow Underground was being built . |
| 28 | Instead it is the government of the day which is able to take advantage of the flexibility of the system to impose its definition of a convention at any particular time . |
| 29 | Newton was able to take advantage of the work of Galileo , Kepler and others to construct that comprehensive physics that he published in his Principia in 1687 . |
| 30 | They include the effect of rising divorce rates on the number of one-person households and single-parent families , which disproportionately seek accommodation in the rented sectors because of relatively low average incomes , but are also able to take advantage of the low-cost home ownership schemes introduced by the 1980 Housing Act and largely confined to the urban stress areas . |