Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By exerting gentle pressure on the zones of the foot the reflexologist is able to diagnose areas of malfunction in the body and then , by massage of the appropriate area of the foot , to help the body heal itself by improving the functioning of the nervous and circulatory systems . |
| 2 | In fact , I would not be able to conduct sessions of regression therapy — whether present- or past-life — if I thought that my patient was going to go through agonies while it was going on . |
| 3 | At other times , however , the media are only able to report snippets of information , incomplete fragments of a complex situation . |
| 4 | Because few such cases proceed to trial it was argued that claims assessors should be able to issue proceedings on behalf of their clients . |
| 5 | Two outer zones are to be jointly managed by the forestry department and local people , who will be able to plant trees for timber and firewood and harvest fruits and other produce . |
| 6 | Where major investment decisions , such as BR 's electrification plan or RENFE 's new investment plan , are pending , the minister may be in a strong bargaining position and be able to extract concessions from railway management in return for mustering support in cabinet . |
| 7 | But spelling can not solely rely on this route : to be able to spell words like yacht or choir we must have access to specific lexical information about how each word is spelled . |
| 8 | It was found that end-users were able to master the basic commands of the interface sufficiently well to be able to retrieve references on search topics within their fields of interest . |
| 9 | The student will be able to provide clients with resort information , advice on travel requirements and documentation for a visit outwith Scotland . |
| 10 | Members who undertake CPE , even though for them it is not compulsory , will still be expected to record their compliance with the CPE guidelines on an annual basis and , if necessary , be able to provide details of CPE undertaken and explain the relevance of that CPE to their professional development . |
| 11 | In the fourteenth century , while France was being drained by constant warfare , the artistic centre of this part of Europe moved from Paris to Belgium , where Brussels and Antwerp were able to attract artists of fame and quality . |
| 12 | There is great interest , therefore , in the extent to which these students have been able to obtain jobs on completion of their studies . |
| 13 | In the past , because children have been able to chant numbers in order ( 1 , 2 , 3 … ) , it has sometimes been assumed that they understood them and so were ready for sums . |
| 14 | It may be that the temples , through their bureaucracy , were able to set quotas on production in the rural villages ; these may have been specified taxes , or tribute , or they may have been expressed as required offerings . |
| 15 | The system manager should be able to set limits on disk space allocation and printer usage for each user of the system . |
| 16 | Some frugivorous birds that have been tested ( four species of tanager , which crush fruit ) are known to be able to detect differences in sugar contents of 8,10 and 12% in their diets and prefer the sweetest , though it must be pointed out that others like manikins , which swallow fruits whole , are less sensitive to sugar content . |
| 17 | However , FAST noted that a possible future biotechnological development might be to use chemoautotrophic micro-organisms able to utilise mixtures of carbon dioxide and hydrogen ( which could be obtained from coal by reaction with steam ) to provide a wide range of organic compounds . |
| 18 | In these circumstances , it is crucial for the reader twenty-five years later , faced with these sixteen documents , to be able to apply principles of evaluation ; but these principles should not be drawn extraneously from some private viewpoint or ideology , but instead drawn intrinsically from the Council 's own experience and the immediate aftermath of implementation . |
| 19 | The best hope of course is that the rates which the government has chosen to go in at will be sustainable , that the government will be able to combine cuts with interest rates , cuts in interest rates , with the needs of the economy and the constraints of the European Monetary System , so that it actually gets a downward path of interest rates at the rate which the economy needs , without provoking a sterling crisis which would push sterling to the bottom of its permitted rates , and produce a crisis of erm of confidence needing higher interest rates . |
| 20 | Most of the Asian claimants in Cohen and Sadiq 's study were able to buy goods on credit from local Asian shops where they were known ( Sadiq , 1991 ) . |
| 21 | I would like to be able to buy materials with confidence . |
| 22 | It is clear that there was considerable freedom in the peasant land-market , so that individuals were able to buy parcels of land and increase their own holdings . |
| 23 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
| 24 | At the same time , we shall be able to identify features of style which belong not so much to the subject , as to James 's characteristic way of handling it . |
| 25 | Hopefully , further research may lead to a way of quantifying tendon strength and thereby possibly being able to identify animals at risk from tendon injury prior to starting training . |
| 26 | This is the teacher-as-social-worker : providing emotional support , attending case conferences , subject to physical and verbal assaults , on the lookout for signs of physical and sexual abuse , no longer able to assume standards of behaviour — and , as if incidentally , also intended to teach , with the upheaval of a new curriculum and its accompanying paperwork . |
| 27 | Produced at Winsford , this is sold principally to Nigeria where it is able to withstand highlevels of humidity . |
| 28 | But they hope that then the troubles in Bosnia will be resolved and the youngsters will be able to escape thoughts of war , not just for a few days , but forever . |
| 29 | Such an assertion presupposes a well-founded theory of performance , one which was able to assign periods of time to mental processes . |
| 30 | In addition , the system manager should be able to assign priorities for processor utilization when this is desirable . |