Example sentences of "able [to-vb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some experts maintain that these molluscs were able to swim in the open ocean , or that they were attached to floating seaweed : some such mechanism has to be invoked to explain how these bivalves came into an environment that lacked bottom-living animals . |
| 2 | A fortnight later , W. & R. Chambers placed an advertisement in the Edinburgh Evening Co it rant ( the first of its kind that I have been able to find in the local press ) , reading : " Printing : wanted : young women of good education and character , to act as compositors " . |
| 3 | This does not mean that national history and culture will not bulk large in the educational systems of particular countries , especially the smaller ones , or that they may not flourish locally within a much broader supranational framework as , say , Catalan culture today flourishes , but on the tacit assumption that it is Catalans who will communicate with the rest of the world through Spanish and English , since few non-residents in Catalonia will be able to communicate in the local language . |
| 4 | Brazil , on the other hand , has combined export subsidies with other regulations to force firms to develop exports and add a greater net contribution to the balance-of-payments as the price for being able to sell in the huge internal market . |
| 5 | It is within this conceptual framework that a government minister at the Department of the Environment can , with seemingly irrefutable common sense , conceptualise inner cities as the places where ‘ those living there have not been able to participate in the economic miracle of the Thatcher years ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p7 ) and which require a strong police presence because ‘ the future prosperity of the inner cities depends directly on how safe they are in which to live and work ’ ( ibid , p22 ) . |
| 6 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that the Secretary of State for Employment will no longer be able to participate in the Social Affairs Council — I am sure that many of our partners will not miss him — and , if that is so , will he consider demoting him and reducing his salary ? |
| 7 | Camdessus made a brief visit to Buenos Aires on Nov. 27 to discuss the possibility of the IMF making a loan of US$3,000 million as a preliminary step to Argentina being able to participate in the US-sponsored Brady Plan for Third-World debt reduction ( introduced in March 1989 — see pp. 36541-42 ) . |
| 8 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 9 | The best hope of exporting industrial products is in the developing countries , some of which ( eg the newly industrialised countries ) may also be able to help in the Soviet modernisation programme , particularly the provision of consumer durables . |
| 10 | If Durham spends some of that cash in Darlington the Government should be able to help in the second and third year of development . ’ |
| 11 | A. If you find a house or flat you could buy but ca n't get a large enough building society or bank mortgage , the local authority may be able to help in the following ways : |
| 12 | It was to consist of as much land as Gloucester was able to win in the Scottish dales along the west march . |
| 13 | It was to consist of as much land as Gloucester was able to win in the Scottish dales along the west march . |
| 14 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 15 | He is expected to be able to vote in the crucial Maastricht Treaty referendum on Sunday . |
| 16 | Recent pluralist work has accepted that class division and class competition are pervasive factors in modern society , and that not all interest groups are equal in power or equally able to compete in the political arena . |
| 17 | 4/ The developing countries mostly need to be able to compete in the developed world market , which needs increased co-operation . |
| 18 | Anderson 's aim is to produce riders able to compete in the ten-event Grundig World Series . |
| 19 | Really I think I am able to demonstrate in the written account of the research that I am presenting a very real account of their teaching and their problems , as well as their successes . |
| 20 | They are perceived as legitimate , not just because of this , but more importantly because the pupils feel able to respond in the same vein and at the same level . |
| 21 | The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place . |
| 22 | It needs to give details of the type of person seen by the organisation as most able to succeed in the foreign environment . |
| 23 | The surviving uskoks were able to settle in the fortified town of Senj , on the rugged Velebit coast , opposite the southern tip of Krk island . |
| 24 | What emerges from a study of the decade as a whole is the degree to which the British and Americans were able to co-operate in the Middle East despite many major differences of opinion and the cases of outright suspicion and competition which marred the relationship . |
| 25 | Whether it would be able to survive in the new , more competitive , environment and obtain as much advertising revenue as it does now is far from clear . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope to be able to legislate in the next parliamentary session , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ Less than 1,000 athletes will not be able to stay in the Olympic village , ’ he announced . |
| 28 | The most significant of the changes was the ending of single capacity with its sharp demarcation between the function of broker and that of jobber and the creation of a number of gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) able to act in the dual capacity of broker and dealer . |
| 29 | However , if you were able to travel in the third dimension , you could cut straight across . |