Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flamingos have webbed feet and , like wildfowl , are able to swim well in deeper water . |
| 2 | Of course there are a number of modifications that need to be made to this analyser before it is able to cope well with general text . |
| 3 | In an ideal world , your pump should be able to cope happily with normal pond detritus , without the need for a strainer of any kind , and any de-sludging should be at the filter , where back washing makes it less of a chore . |
| 4 | Well-established organisations in non-competitive environments might be able to perform successfully with any type of organisation structure , because they are secure within their environment and can ignore contingency factors ( eg. the Civil Service , perhaps ) . |
| 5 | In one case the opinion was expressed that the foreign affairs powers of the President are extra-constitutional , resting upon the international sovereign status of the United States and the necessity for that country to be able to perform effectively in foreign relations , uninhibited by domestic legal restrictions . |
| 6 | Kenya , never able to borrow heavily from commercial banks , has relied on ‘ official ’ loans from aid ‘ donor ’ governments like Britain and from international organisations like the World Bank or the IMF . |
| 7 | Yes , well , I mean I 'm very happy to be able to agree totally with that erm , people who make the laws are n't the people who suffer from the the physical , and matters might be a great deal better if erm , they paid a bit more attention , I do hope that he would agree however , erm , that police officers who are female also have a good effect on the streets , because he was acting as if erm , it was only the male person who were any use , and I 'm sure that is not so . |
| 8 | Operating out of Rockswell and other quarries in the county , the three were able to carry up to five extra loads , worth between £40 and £50 , per week . |
| 9 | Operating out of Rockswell and other quarries in the county , the three were able to carry up to five extra loads , worth between £40 and £50 , per week . |
| 10 | If non-farming activities reach the VAT registration threshold , farmers will be required to register for all their activities , farming and non-farming , and will not be able to carry on as flat rate farmers . |
| 11 | It is hoped that social scientists will not only be able to carry out with greater ease and rapidity those types of computation previously undertaken on mainframe computers but that they may also be able to take advantage of the machines ’ ability to handle graphical information . |
| 12 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 13 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 14 | ‘ He tells me I wo n't be able to go on like this , but he knows how important it is to my life , ’ Edwards reasoned . |
| 15 | I was able to travel quite freely for about a week , and then after that , I was n't able to go out at all . |
| 16 | The librarian was able to go home in good spirits . |
| 17 | A perfectly streamlined form creates no turbulence and only minimal drag , and fluid layers are able to flow smoothly over each other . |
| 18 | The size of the device — which Faris expects to be able to scale down to 0.1 micrometres across — makes it suitable for use in very and ultra-large scale integrated circuits . |
| 19 | The old cricket pavilion was demolished and then cobbled back together as a grandstand able to accommodate up to fifty spectators . |
| 20 | These problems may be recited in a familiar litany cited for all service sectors concerned with all dependency groups : services are remote from individuals and their families ; services are difficult for families and clients to get in touch with or access ; services are organisationally and professionallY fragmented , So that families and clients are unclear about who was doing what ; furthermore , services are unconnected or discontinuous , so that families and clients fall into gaps between services ; finally , the statutory agencies were not able to liaise extensively with voluntary or informal care networks However , these general observations do not point precisely to operational tasks . |
| 21 | Since the condition often occurs in the secondary-school years , the young person may not only be faced with the trauma of the diagnosis and the confusion of being still able to see clearly in some situations and not at all in others , but there may also have to be a decision to transfer the medium of communication from print to braille , all this taking place in the years leading up to important examinations . |
| 22 | Aware of practitioners ' frustration in not being able to work effectively with these problematic clients , Probation management , in partnership with the voluntary sector , determined to develop an Alcohol Education Course ( AEC ) . |
| 23 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 24 | Reynolds would n't have been able to stand upright in one of them , and the open-mesh floor would have made it even more uncomfortable . |
| 25 | The County Council does not have sufficient detailed information on the situation at the local level to be able to comment specifically on individual districts . |
| 26 | Once up in her room , he said , ‘ I 'm afraid I may not be able to come again until next Friday . |
| 27 | Conrad ( 1965 , pp. 12–13 ) , in his interesting study of penal practice in nine different European countries , was able to come up with five postulates shared by penal administrators in all of them ; and they spell out precisely the rehabilitative programme : |
| 28 | That , in his view , is long enough to be able to come up with new ideas and see them implemented . |
| 29 | Even if the student is not able to come up with alternative offerings of his or her own , at least he or she can say with some honesty : ‘ I believe that to be the case , and this is why . ’ |
| 30 | You might well be able to come up with more ideas of your own . |