Example sentences of "able [verb] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Barnes said that trading was ‘ holding up well ’ in Britain , particularly at the company 's new restaurants , but that the whole country would not be able to accommodate more than a total of 12 restaurants . |
| 2 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 3 | We need to be able to perceive more than the five emotions above , and it is easy enough to do so . |
| 4 | No other man had ever been able to arouse more than a tingle of interest in her . |
| 5 | He had been able to charm more than a few elderly ladies in his time . |
| 6 | As soon as a society is able to produce more than the bare minimum needed for survival , it is possible for classes to emerge . |