Example sentences of "able [verb] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it can be , and if by so doing , the patient would be able to enjoy a further period of life without increased discomfort , then the cure or palliative measure should be adopted . |
| 2 | The existing stock of money , being less in demand , will be able to support a greater flow of spending . |
| 3 | During the sixth century , craftsmen were increasingly operating from workshops , employed by those who had made a greater success in the agricultural way of life and were able to support a greater number of specialists and farmworkers . |
| 4 | The Tudor ploughman had better-bred and better-fed beasts ; so he required fewer of them to pull a plough , and was able to drive a straighter furrow . |
| 5 | If pain and other symptoms were being so badly managed these patients should have been referred promptly to other health care professionals who might have been able to provide a better quality of analgesia . |
| 6 | If , however , the lessor 's title is itself only registered as good leasehold ( if , for example , the lessor is granting an underlease out of an older leasehold title ) you may not be able to obtain a better title than good leasehold for the underlease ; a position that a mortgagee will normally accept if there 's no alternative . |
| 7 | These were put in much faster and deeper , able to accept a greater charge , and be capable of breaking down a greater burden . |
| 8 | We were in a typical winter low pressure region which meant that we reached maximum manifold height fairly quickly , and by the time we reached 7,000 feet air traffic control had obviously got the message and asked us whether we were able to accept a higher level . |
| 9 | Secondly , there is a risk that higher prices charged by monopoly suppliers will result in DHAs being able to purchase a lower volume of services than provided at present . |
| 10 | In other words , people were able to purchase a wider variety of foodstuffs . |
| 11 | If counsellees are able to reach a better understanding of their own self-image , they can often overcome the social role into which they have been fixed , and develop newer , healthier ones . |
| 12 | The simple grid described above is used merely to exemplify the method which , with computer analysis of the data and a use of rank ordering or numerical scaling of the judgments , is able to reach a higher level of sophistication . |
| 13 | The situation will only improve if first , recipient governments are able to allocate a higher proportion of the time of capable civil servants to the allocation of in-coming aid ; second , if donor governments and agencies dovetail their country lending programmes more closely with the medium-term budgetary plans of the recipient countries ; and third , if recipient governments are more careful in interpreting the priorities of their own small farmers and other small-scale producers . |
| 14 | However , there are predictions that he will be able to announce a lower out-turn on borrowing this year than the £7 billion forecast . |
| 15 | These utterances , emerging from longer periods of silent thought , were often obscure , but Ludens had begun to feel that , not yet perhaps but soon , he would be able to frame a clearer idea of what Marcus was all the time thinking . |
| 16 | The stories are legion of people who retired abroad in the expectation of being able to afford a higher standard of living and who returned home a few years later , thoroughly disillusioned . |
| 17 | The biggest parties were moving-out parties given by people who were finally able to afford a bigger house . ’ |
| 18 | Labour was increasingly scarce and individuals were able to bargain a better position in many cases than the complex previous agreements we have seen . |
| 19 | He will be able to handle a wider range of options with only mnemonic guidance — for him the minimum number of key-strokes for program control is appropriate . |
| 20 | Since the formation of the UK Group of EEB Members we have been able to play a fuller role in the affairs of the EEB without too great a commitment of time and resources . |
| 21 | After a certain stage , children become able to use a greater variety of linguistic devices to express certain sorts of clausal relations and this makes them less reliant on dependent-clause structures . |
| 22 | Apart from being able to use a wider range of taps and fittings ( including ‘ aerated ’ taps ) , the main advantages of an unvented system are : |
| 23 | As I said in answer to the main question , in the announcement that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I will make in February , we shall be able to give a fuller answer than I can give now . |
| 24 | Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election . |
| 25 | The manufacturers , flooded with a backlog of orders far in excess of their capacity , also felt that they would be able to do a better job if designs could be standardised , and had pressed the Government for action in 1947 . |
| 26 | I thought if I was a little bit fitter , fresher and stronger I would be able to do a better job — which is what turned out in the end . ’ |
| 27 | Having established a good working relationship with classes the new teacher may well be able to adopt a freer design with confidence . |
| 28 | The Valences had held their carburettor factory for fifteen generations , and showed no signs of ever being able to seize a higher niche in Trazior . |
| 29 | So I am going to suggest ways of finding out about earth energies and of understanding the processes involved , how the ancient peoples related to them , and how we may ourselves be able to build a stronger link . |
| 30 | ( We are , in any case , unlikely to be able to build a larger detector ! ) |