Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derbyshire , North Wales and South Wales had about three-quarters of the working wives able to cope on their own . |
| 2 | Often it is girls from already deprived backgrounds who end up in such circumstances , and who are less able to cope on their own . |
| 3 | That is why the industry was able to cope with its highest work load ever in real terms , and did not suffer the labour shortages experienced in the 1960s . |
| 4 | Soon after this , Margery ‘ became calmed in her wits and reason , as well as ever she was before ’ , and was able to cope with her usual occupations , ‘ wisely and soberly enough ’ . |
| 5 | With reduced cow numbers ( courtesy of quotas ) and some investment in fencing and sheep handling , I hope we shall be able to cope with our reduced labour force especially as Chrissie is out teaching more and more . |
| 6 | Until you feel more able to cope with your new situation . ’ |
| 7 | A group of twenty young girls showed how each is able to cope in her own way using apparatus to musical accompaniment — on this occasion they handled balls , hoops , ribbons and twisters and very well too ! ! |
| 8 | We talked about each department erm being able to invest in their own technology and make their own er decisions on what sort of database or interface they would use to deploy their applications . |
| 9 | So Ruth , she 's been led to one who was able to restore to her all that Elimelech had lost when he left Bethlehem . |
| 10 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 11 | I do not need any lead because the size 6 hook will hold a lobworm which is quite capable of being cast a short distance , and able to sink under its own weight . |
| 12 | Their father was one of the first beneficiaries , and the whole family was able to gather at his 100th birthday party . |
| 13 | During the trip the pair were able to indulge in their great shared passion — clothes . |
| 14 | Early check-ups in England had shown a normal pregnancy and she was looking forward to being able to indulge in her favourite French foods . |
| 15 | Lawren was therefore well off and able to indulge in his favourite pastime of painting . |
| 16 | There he was able to indulge in his favourite recreation , fishing for salmon in the waters of the Wye . |
| 17 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 18 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
| 19 | She could do with being able to sew for her own sake . |
| 20 | More than anything , Wilson misses the fun and games that he should be able to enjoy with his three young children , and that he did enjoy , before the symptoms began . |
| 21 | The youth … is capable of having principles ; his religious and moral ideas can be cultivated , and he is able to attend to his own refinement . |
| 22 | She wondered how long she would be able to continue at her present pace . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll be able to continue with your fine work . |
| 24 | Clothiers in Gloucestershire did not reduce piece rates , and so weavers were able to profit from their enhanced productivity . |
| 25 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 26 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 27 | So it makes a refreshing change to able to write about something nice . |
| 28 | The first hint of such an ability in bees came years ago when von Frisch discovered that bees that had flown an indirect route to a food source were nevertheless able to indicate by their famous communication dances the straight line direction to the food . |
| 29 | The sparkle was back in Diana 's eyes as she was able to concentrate on her favourite issues — visiting children , the sick and the elderly . |
| 30 | And the more these artists are able to work on their own , or become very powerful , then the more precious and ungrown-up they tend to become . |