Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | People will get so antiseptic that they 'll not be able to stand any sort of germs of any sort . |
| 3 | The child 's class teacher will then more confidently be able to encourage full use of the environment . |
| 4 | The Times was highly critical of what it called ‘ these usurious companies ’ , but their creation was a genuine attempt by the government of the day to provide the less privileged members of society with a state money-lender which hopefully they would find more trustworthy than the neighbourhood pawnbroker ; and presumably each society 's secretary was able to provide some kind of money management advice to those who needed it . |
| 5 | This first period then must be considered as being completely ‘ godless ’ in so far as it would be able to provide any kind of being that could fulfil the human need for a ‘ god ’ . |
| 6 | And because holism involves every aspect of the individual , you will not only feel better physically but you are likely to be more alert , freer from stress , more able to interact well with others and able to find greater peace of mind . |
| 7 | In his book on working class leisure , Hugh Cunningham was able to find little evidence of any female pastimes . |
| 8 | Once back in town she would be able to find some form of public transport . |
| 9 | ‘ But surely we ought to have been able to find some sort of compromise … ’ |
| 10 | With Iraq not currently exporting [ see p. 38598 ] and Kuwait only gradually returning to the market , OPEC 's other 11 member states had felt able to defer any reimposition of output restrictions , particularly in view of the serious uncertainty about Soviet supplies . |
| 11 | So it 's a it 's a good thing to be able to attract inward investment of that quality and significance . |
| 12 | The community interpreter has to be able to juggle this kind of information all the time . |
| 13 | Herodotus was able to establish some kind of time-sequence for the two centuries before his time , but he was a more diffuse writer than Thucydides , who was concerned with many events occurring in a shorter time interval . |
| 14 | It is a matter of deep concern to many small businesses — it is killing some of the most enterprising small firms — that they are not able to obtain proper payment of debt , often from larger and better-funded institutions than themselves . |
| 15 | In fact , an evaluator was able to observe one meeting of the library committee . |
| 16 | Others may be perfectly sanguine about such bedfellows , personally , I would like to be able to choose another form of political participation . |
| 17 | Thank God for the work that S C F is doing there , his only hope through counselling , of being able to regain any form of normality . |
| 18 | The timing of this rejection was unfortunate for Franco , for nothing would have suited him better than to have been able to announce Spanish membership of the international winners ' club on the morning of the ninth anniversary of the 18 July rising . |
| 19 | But we shall probably never be able to trace this process of desertion in any detail in most of the Sussex cases . |
| 20 | Damian considered her too inexperienced sexually to be able to fulfil that longing of his to express himself fully through the body . |
| 21 | In order to be able to exercise any degree of power in an organisation , an office-holder must have an official sanction for the exercise of that power . |
| 22 | A court must be able to exercise some measure of control over the cases which are brought before it , to prevent injustice to either party and to ensure that the various issues can be fully and effectively dealt with . |
| 23 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 24 | Jordan was able to exercise considerable control of the West Bank 's agricultural economy through this Council . |
| 25 | This may be able to identify some sort of ‘ fit ’ between the social and economic characteristics of a city and its public policy , but this in no sense explains that policy . |
| 26 | A straight fight between John Smith and Bryan Gould will never be able to generate that level of fall-out . |
| 27 | This makes it vital for the pilot to be able to manage any loss of control due to stalling or spiralling without using them . |
| 28 | It is suggested that there must usually be a special element in the employee/connection contact which creates a reasonable risk that the employee will be able to appropriate some part of the business when he leaves because of the chance that customers would seek him out on account of his knowledge of their requirements . |
| 29 | And and I think I I 'm able to give that level of support from Selby District 's point of view . |
| 30 | Palo Alto , California-based Legato Systems Inc has agreed to provide its Transport Independent Remote Procedure Call tool kit to Novell Inc in exchange for Novell 's local network Workplace TCP/IP stack — the Novell product will be bundled with Legato 's Networker in its ClientPak II configuration and users with MS-DOS clients on a NetWare local network will be able to do on-demand back-up of MS-DOS and Unix applications by backing them up on a Unix or NetWare server configured with TCP/IP ; IBM has already licensed NetWorker for marketing to its RS/6000 customers . |