Example sentences of "is able [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Committee have appointed Mr D H Young as Acting Honorary Secretary until Ken Lucas is able to return to duty . |
| 2 | Whichever side of the transaction you represent , as soon as you 've dispatched or received replies to requisitions ( you ca n't do so before , because you wo n't know what the other side wants or is able to give on completion ) , complete the three agendas " before completion " , " completion " and " after completion " . |
| 3 | In this way the child 's performance is continually sustained by the adult who , almost paradoxically , is always seeking to withdraw so that the child is able to participate in interactions as an independent and autonomous individual . |
| 4 | Your child poses no risk to other children and is able to go to nursery , playgroup or school and enjoy growing up with other children as much as his or her health allows . |
| 5 | He is able to refer to God by such names as Rāma and K a , which are specifically Hindu names , and as Ahuramazda , which is the Zoroastrian name for the God of light . |
| 6 | As the fish moves , so solid objects in the water nearby create slightly greater pressure in the water and this the fish is able to sense by means of their lateral-line system . |
| 7 | Dry rot exhibits an almost uncanny knowledge of the presence of timber and is able to thrust through brickwork mortar joints and to travel across brickwork behind plaster over great distances in its search for fresh food . |
| 8 | So accustomed to using Conrad 's eyes , Eliot is able to see through Twain 's the native emotion of his own nativity and childhood in the nursery bedroom , seeing that childhood in terms of a fundamental primitivism from which his religious consciousness has grown . |
| 9 | Chapter 7 , which is written by Sara Ladbury and Clive Mira-Smith , is a piece of work by the Cities Research Unit , a private consultant , and accordingly reflects the style and the medium in which it is rooted , whilst similarly Jon Dawson and Michael Parkinson 's chapter is written from a perspective that is able to take on board their own personal involvement with the Merseyside Development Corporation . |
| 10 | With some modifications by DCS , Derwentside 's system is able to account for staff who go out on appointments , such as health inspectors . |
| 11 | It will be a vision of success from which everyone profits , a vision which the Profitboss has developed over many years , a vision in which he passionately believes and is able to communicate with enthusiasm to his team and every other employee in the organization . |
| 12 | Neither Grosbard 's direction nor Gardner 's script is able to come into focus and , as a result , Dustin 's character remains blurred . |
| 13 | I do not mean by that someone who stands in front of a class of children , but a person who is able to pass on wisdom and knowledge to others . |
| 14 | The availability of such services plays a part in whether an old person is able to stay at home . |
| 15 | In summary , I hope that the contents of this letter provide you with an overview of the services that KPMG is able to offer in connection with your ambitious plans and demonstrate how we would propose to undertake the assignment , capitalising on our relationship with [ Solicitors ] . |
| 16 | CREB is able to bind to promoters that are induced by a variety of agents other than cAMP ( including Ca 2+ ( 8 , 9 ) and the adenovirus E1A protein ( 10 , 11 , 12 ) ) and is thought to activate a functionally diverse array of genes in response to elevated cAMP . |
| 17 | Human TFIIIA purified from HeLa cells specifically binds to the ICR of 5S-RNA genes in a primary fashion , while hTFIIIC is able to bind to AB- and AC-type ICR promoters ( 3 ) . |