Example sentences of "able [to-vb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of performance against arousal levels and we agreed that the the purpose of training like this and also putting these principles into practice is to be able to handle more and more arousal er more and more nerves and still and still be able to perform in a confident manner . |
| 2 | There is , true enough , no bank to poke into — get round the first headland and the next bank is the shore of Svalbard — but it would still be a good idea to be able to go in a straight line . |
| 3 | You will need to consult the " blue book " the Advertisers Annual , and the Creative Handbook which you should be able to see in a public library . |
| 4 | We employ people from up to 40 different countries and so everyone must be adaptable and able to work in a multi-national team . |
| 5 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 6 | By sheer luck , Ron was able to breath in a tiny air-pocket formed by the rapids , until he was finally rescued by the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team , who risked their own lives to save him . |
| 7 | While the President walked off after delivering his speech someone was able to slip in a pre-built ten-centimetre platform for Mrs Thatcher and Rajiv Gandhi , which was a lot less fuss than having to fiddle around re-adjusting the autocue height . |
| 8 | Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way . |
| 9 | DARLINGTON teenagers will soon be able to meet in a new club . |
| 10 | And their shared taste for rich cake with coffee late at night restored her faith in their friendship a little , so that when he asked her about her family 's plans for Christmas she was able to answer in a relaxed and natural way . |
| 11 | On a more positive note we have supported the efforts to rationalise and sustain the Free Representation Unit which it is hoped are coming to fruition and we have been able to help in a small way with the organisation of the national schools Mock Trial Competition . |
| 12 | Due to wartime conditions the peasantry got the same amount of agricultural machinery over the years 1915–21 that they had been able to buy in a single year prior to the World War . |
| 13 | He told me about Piero della Francesca 's mysterious Flagellation in the Ducal palace in Urbino , and he said that it was ‘ probably the greatest small picture in the world ’ , a line which I was able to use in a novel set in Tuscany . |
| 14 | She would have the length of the leash to fly with , but would only be able to fly in a straight line , to me , at the other end of the fixed creance . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ Many hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost because our industry , our companies have not been able to compete in a fair contest . ’ |
| 16 | In fact , the same behavior of gravity with distance in more than three space dimensions means that the sun would not be able to exist in a stable state with pressure balancing gravity . |
| 17 | Really I think I am able to demonstrate in a written account of the research that I am presenting a very real account of their teaching and their problems , as well as their successes erm sometimes I was able to observe lessons that went wrong and were very erm difficult for the teachers , as well as the lessons that were successful , so I do n't really think it the problems at the end . |
| 18 | Later that summer I was able to turn in a similar review of the main performance of the Sels Floto Circus . |
| 19 | Darwinism implies that some species must triumph over others not because they are fitter in some genetic or athletic sense , but because they are better able to survive in a competitive ambiance . |
| 20 | Larger firms , by virtue of having expanded , are better able to survive in a competitive market . |
| 21 | Another approach has been to consider how a monster or family of monsters , if they did indeed exist in the loch , might be able to survive in a freshwater environment . |
| 22 | By band-shifting experiments , specific and non-specific competition and DMS interference analysis we demonstrated that , in fact , factor(s) are able to bind in a specific manner to this element ( named here region III ) . |
| 23 | Fraser assumed , indeed , that the government would by degrees allocate frequencies such that more than one ITV station would be able to broadcast in a given area . |
| 24 | Other market participants are able to act in a dual capacity . |
| 25 | Susannah explains that the new logo needs to be ‘ simple and clear ; able to reproduce well ; in two colours ( but able to reproduce in a single colour ) ; suggest independence ; and able to reduce to or enlarge ’ . |
| 26 | He , no more than General Christison in Java , was able to operate in a political vacuum but at least the French in Saigon were treated as allies rather than as one-time enemies although , in the absence of sufficient numbers of Frenchmen , Japanese troops were required to fight Vietnamese who , as in Hanoi , were intent on the politics of a fait accompli . |