Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are moving for job reasons , the local authority or new town development corporation , even if they can not offer permanent rented accommodation , might be able to arrange short-term letting for up to a year under Schedule 3 of the Housing Act 1980 . |
| 2 | If we are able to arrange alternative travel to your resort , all costs incurred in assisting you to travel will be you responsibility . |
| 3 | I regret it , but if I look coldly at our lifestyle , we would n't be able to invest enough time in bringing a child up properly . |
| 4 | Some males are able to diagnose vaginal thrush in their wives or girl-friends within seconds of the start of sexual intercourse because of the immediate reaction that is set up . |
| 5 | Blackadder and Wolf crossed in the second-half , when Scotland were at least able to ensnare some ball for Nicol , Dods and Townsend to release Stanger for a try , his second distinguishing act of the tie , having earlier pulled off a try-saving tackle . |
| 6 | Oxygen booths , in which people will be able to breathe pure oxygen at the cost of $2 a minute , are to be installed around Mexico City centre . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , in these conditions , the Swamp Eel has adapted by being able to breathe atmospheric air during the times of drought when the swamps dry up , aestivating ( the summer version of hibernating ) until more favourable conditions return , by burrowing into the mud or travelling across land in search of alternative waterways . |
| 8 | Plateless bolt-on necks are the order of the day , and the Koreans have had to work out a strange method of extending the neck an extra step past the end of the fingerboard to try to keep the Rickenbacker look ( you might be able to spot this feature on the black one , between the neck and middle pickups ) . |
| 9 | And , if you treat this toxin with something like formaldehyde or ethanol , you end up by inactivating it 's toxic properties and you end up with what , what we call a toxoid , something that retains immunological properties , it 's able to stimulate specific immunity to the toxin but it does n't have any of the toxic effects and we end up with this toxoid vaccine against diphtheria . |
| 10 | No they wo n't let you go , you 'll be able to go next year with your school . |
| 11 | By listening to her children 's language ( which , to quote T S Eliot , ‘ is the fluid in which all else is suspended ’ ) the teacher is able to go some way in interpreting their individual levels of development and maturation . |
| 12 | This can cause problems because if you do not pay tax then you will not be able to sign the Certificate on form R190(SD) and ACET would not be able to re-claim basic rate on the payment . |
| 13 | If you were able to eat wheat or any of the other grains this week without any ill-effects , you will be able to include this food in your diet in Stage III . |
| 14 | Then when Britain 's political geography gave the Tories a parliamentary majority in 1951 they too were able to sustain popular support in more than one election . |
| 15 | God 's love is able to sustain human happiness beyond our wildest desires . |
| 16 | Volunteer labour was also responsible for recent alterations and improvements to the village hall , which is now able to accommodate indoor bowling throughout the winter . |
| 17 | This problem does not seem to afflict the radical right in the same way ; since the early 1980s the Thatcher Government has been able to implement radical change without alienating its newspaper support . |
| 18 | Politicians , local and national , have been able to claim great progress on the housing front , referring to the increasing numbers of sheltered housing units , yet conveniently ignoring that only about 5 per cent live in this kind of accommodation . |
| 19 | It might have been different had Charlotte been able to claim any success for her American trip . |
| 20 | And he should be able to claim some success for British ideas , too . |
| 21 | One of the greatest achievements of the post War period has been the creation of a land use planning system able to preserve some distinction between town and countryside . |
| 22 | Yes , I think it 's just to follow on from that erm about trusting children to give us the sort of clues that we need to be able to respond to , very often they do that in ways that are not directly associated perhaps with the anxiety that 's around , so that they may be expressing their anxiety by just generally difficult behaviour or by wetting the bed at night , or maybe being quite disruptive in their play , or provoking other children , and adults who are able to see that sort of behaviour as useful for information for us , so that we can respond appropriately , not out of anger and a erm judgemental sort of response , but in a way that we can support their anxiety by by not getting over excited and + and erm responding in a very aggressive way to the very aggression that they 're expressing as a result of their anxiety . |
| 23 | A good lawyer , who reads carefully , ponders meanings and is prepared to discuss difficulties , might be able to see this point in the problem even though he had read nothing upon it . |
| 24 | Of the other stars in Pisces , Theta and Omicron ( each 4.3 ) have K-type spectra ; I can see that Omicron is slightly off-white , but I have never been able to see any colour at all in Theta . |
| 25 | The lungs are then able to extract more oxygen from the increased air supply and deliver it to the cells where it is needed to combine with food to produce energy . |
| 26 | And yet , over the past few years , he is probably regarded in the Caribbean as the West Indies bowler able to extract more movement off the pitch than any other and , certainly , during last summer 's Test series against England , he and Ambrose were the leaders in the ‘ unplayable delivery ’ department . |
| 27 | Thinking all the deeper for not being able to concentrate full time on the bodies in Mouncy Street . |
| 28 | People will get so antiseptic that they 'll not be able to stand any sort of germs of any sort . |
| 29 | The child 's class teacher will then more confidently be able to encourage full use of the environment . |
| 30 | Related research is exploring these relationships at the national and river basin level , so that the farm-level work will be able to provide greater detail on specific ground level relationships , and on the factors which variability in response . |