Example sentences of "able [to-vb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when Sir Alfred enlisted the help of his sister , Jean Stanley ( wife of Louis ) was BRM able to proceed for the 1962 season . |
| 2 | He will be able to arrange for a private clinic , so there will be no problems with the police . ’ |
| 3 | Only when these key steps have been taken will government and individuals alike be able to plan for the long term , instead of focusing on the short term and the next election . |
| 4 | ‘ You might be able to go for a short walk in a couple of days , ’ said Joe . |
| 5 | If the budget worsens after revenue-yielding tariffs have been reduced , governments may not be able to wait for the longer term trade gains to emerge to replace the lost revenue . |
| 6 | It is even possible that if you decide to set up your own business , you may be able to claim for the initial costs of this . |
| 7 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 8 | We were not able to adjust for the possible confounding effect of body weight as this information has not been collected . |
| 9 | This caused a delay of nine minutes , but play was able to restart for the last couple of overs . |
| 10 | In lighter infections , common in older dogs , the anaemia is not so severe , as the marrow response is able to compensate for a variable period . |
| 11 | As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip . |
| 12 | Duchamp-Villon and La Fresnaye were also members of the hanging committee , so that the Cubist painters were able to exhibit for the second time that year as a group . |
| 13 | So , if a company has a virtual monopoly in a particular type of computer system , charges an exorbitant price for it and the Commission prepares a report to the effect that this situation is against the public interest , anyone will be able to apply for a compulsory licence to use the software . |
| 14 | Like Debbie , Fay starts from the premise that the point of doing a degree is to get a job , as we can see in her statement that science students are able to apply for a wider range of jobs than arts graduates . |
| 15 | If you have a weekend free , you can do what many west Berliners are now able to do for the first time since 1952 — simple drive into the country and enjoy the landscape of Brandenburg . |
| 16 | And if Oliver had betrayed him , as he had betrayed all the others , what would she have been able to do for the Chartist candidate then ? |
| 17 | If a wife who formerly worked is over 60 and retired but can not yet get a basic pension on either her own or her husband 's contributions , she may be able to qualify for an additional or graduated pension based on her own contributions . |
| 18 | They will not stop a single person who is not in one of those categories from being able to qualify for the single person household discount . |
| 19 | In addition graduates will be able to compete for the conventional careers open to geologists . |
| 20 | By abandoning any logic of progress for the negative synthesis of anti-labour which produces deviation , Sartre is , on the other hand , able to account for the major detour that provides the context for his whole debate with Merleau-Ponty , and indeed for all post-war Marxism : the spectre of Stalinism . |
| 21 | Chomsky states that grammar must be based on two things : observation of language ability to satisfy the native speaker 's intuition about his language For example , it must be able to account for the native speaker 's intuition that active or passive sentences are related to each other ; that some pairs of sentences , though alike on the surface , are different at a deeper level . |
| 22 | This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator . |
| 23 | cut in defence expenditure , which means that there is not the slightest chance of his being able to pay for the extra boat . |
| 24 | UNESCO however is unlikely to able to pay for the full cost of the restoration programme and intends to enlist aid from other international agencies . |
| 25 | Lawyers will not be able to take an American-style slice of the damages if successful , but they will be able to ask for an extra percentage on top of their normal costs , with a maximum to be fixed by the Lord Chancellor . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's no one of any consequence in London at the moment , ’ she told him , ‘ but you wo n't be able to move for the millions of nobodies going to look at the Tower . ’ |
| 27 | In the event that the continuing partners have outstanding claims against their insolvent former colleague , they will be able to prove for the same in his bankruptcy as ordinary unsecured creditors . |