Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] [pron] own " 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 | 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 ! ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She could do with being able to sew for her own sake . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Such beliefs are able to stand on their own feet , without support from others . |
| 11 | It is ludicrous that the council should subsidise with public money , my money , your money , someone 's housing provision simp if they are quite able to stand on their own two feet . |
| 12 | Able to stand on her own feet . |
| 13 | Take away this knowledge and the appeal would vanish , for the music is rarely able to stand on its own merits . |
| 14 | Notwithstanding accusations that they had imperialist designs on Europe , Americans hoped that the Continent would soon be able to stand on its own feet , free of US support . |
| 15 | The concept that AEA is now able to stand on its own feet as a business is a huge achievement , based on where we were in 1988 . |
| 16 | The relationship in both cases with the opposing image is both subtle and sensitive , but surely each image should be equally able to stand in its own space , on its own merit . |
| 17 | He had wondered , also , how much the mediciner had been able to guess about his own mind and nature . |
| 18 | With Maggie in London , Sheila and Mona had more light to themselves and were better able to come into their own . |
| 19 | Central to child-rearing from the cultural point of view , as we have seen , is that by the time he is six or seven the child should have been able to recapitulate within his own personal psychological development the development history of his culture . |
| 20 | Patients are therefore not able to participate in their own diagnosis and treatment , and a valuable source of information about their condition is lost . |
| 21 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 22 | Private customers receive more protection under the Rules than do non-private customers since the latter are deemed , to some extent , to be better able to look after their own interests . |
| 23 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 24 | Large GP practices to be able to apply for their own practice budgets to enable them to purchase a defined range of services direct from hospitals . |
| 25 | In both of these jobs she proved to very hard-working and reliable , well able to function on her own but always working as a member of a team . |
| 26 | The paper asks whether bigger customers , including buying groups and consortia , should be able to buy for their own use and sell any surplus and suggests some sort of ‘ credibility test ’ should be imposed on companies . |
| 27 | They are able to identify from their own records those types who are the loyal customers — where average order value is highest , where bad debt is lowest , and where responsiveness to mailshots is highest . |
| 28 | This teacher afterwards remarked that she could not just ‘ set ’ activities such as problem-solving or project work of this kind and expect the children to be able to manage on their own . |
| 29 | All the tools that you need are there and with intelligent use you should be able to manage on your own most of the time . |
| 30 | We can be in danger of saying or feeling that bereavement is something that happens to everyone else , and that ‘ those people ’ need support , but we are perfectly able to manage on our own . |