Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By exerting gentle pressure on the zones of the foot the reflexologist is able to diagnose areas of malfunction in the body and then , by massage of the appropriate area of the foot , to help the body heal itself by improving the functioning of the nervous and circulatory systems . |
| 2 | In fact , I would not be able to conduct sessions of regression therapy — whether present- or past-life — if I thought that my patient was going to go through agonies while it was going on . |
| 3 | At other times , however , the media are only able to report snippets of information , incomplete fragments of a complex situation . |
| 4 | Because few such cases proceed to trial it was argued that claims assessors should be able to issue proceedings on behalf of their clients . |
| 5 | The former English Girls ' champion was able to compare notes with Fiona Brown , for the Cheshire player had the same experience during her 79 . |
| 6 | Let's say that a commercial filter claims ( perfectly reasonably ) to be able to support 10″ of fish per 100 gallons treatment . |
| 7 | Vivien Rendall was introduced to Medau in 1966 when she joined Wynne Norris 's class in Upton Chester ; on moving south she was able to attend classes in St Albans and Hemel Hempstead , and since 1984 , Gerrards Cross . |
| 8 | Two outer zones are to be jointly managed by the forestry department and local people , who will be able to plant trees for timber and firewood and harvest fruits and other produce . |
| 9 | Over and above the residual discomfort of managers used to being able to see bodies in seats around the office and to address them face-to-face , the teleworkers themselves can feel similarly cut off . |
| 10 | But generally , the deadline achieved its purpose and we were able to despatch certificates to students much more quickly than in the past . ’ |
| 11 | Where major investment decisions , such as BR 's electrification plan or RENFE 's new investment plan , are pending , the minister may be in a strong bargaining position and be able to extract concessions from railway management in return for mustering support in cabinet . |
| 12 | But spelling can not solely rely on this route : to be able to spell words like yacht or choir we must have access to specific lexical information about how each word is spelled . |
| 13 | It was found that end-users were able to master the basic commands of the interface sufficiently well to be able to retrieve references on search topics within their fields of interest . |
| 14 | The student will be able to provide clients with resort information , advice on travel requirements and documentation for a visit outwith Scotland . |
| 15 | Members who undertake CPE , even though for them it is not compulsory , will still be expected to record their compliance with the CPE guidelines on an annual basis and , if necessary , be able to provide details of CPE undertaken and explain the relevance of that CPE to their professional development . |
| 16 | It recommended that the councils monitor the rates of submission of theses by research students in every university , so as to be able to impose sanctions on universities whose rates were unsatisfactory . |
| 17 | Under Maastricht ( Article 104C ) , it is , for instance , proposed that the authorities in Brussels should be able to impose fines on countries which do not obey the edicts of EEC institutions . |
| 18 | It has always been able to impose penalties on parties who break the rules without permission , by the award of costs against them , but it has not been able to enforce the rules of its own volition . |
| 19 | By comparing different meanings from different contexts he is able to find continuities between meanings and contexts . |
| 20 | In the fourteenth century , while France was being drained by constant warfare , the artistic centre of this part of Europe moved from Paris to Belgium , where Brussels and Antwerp were able to attract artists of fame and quality . |
| 21 | You should be able to obtain snake-barks from Hillier nurseries ( Winchester ) Ltd , Ampfield House , Ampfield , Nr Romsey , Hants SO51 9PA . |
| 22 | This paper presents an improvement of this technique in which we have used voluntary , respiratory gating and have been able to obtain images for periods of 2–3 hours . |
| 23 | There is great interest , therefore , in the extent to which these students have been able to obtain jobs on completion of their studies . |
| 24 | Some people have moved out of towns to live in the countryside , sometimes adopting a second part-time job in the rural area , while many inhabitants of rural areas have been able to obtain jobs in towns . |
| 25 | In the past , because children have been able to chant numbers in order ( 1 , 2 , 3 … ) , it has sometimes been assumed that they understood them and so were ready for sums . |
| 26 | This means if you get a specialist word processor or spreadsheet later on , you 'll be able to create links between WindowWorks and your new application — provided , of course , it supports OLE . |
| 27 | The city was fortified and was able to repel raids by pirates and a siege by the Saracens in 866–7 . |
| 28 | It may be that the temples , through their bureaucracy , were able to set quotas on production in the rural villages ; these may have been specified taxes , or tribute , or they may have been expressed as required offerings . |
| 29 | The system manager should be able to set limits on disk space allocation and printer usage for each user of the system . |
| 30 | LEAs would not he able to restrict admissions to schools by using artificial admissions limits . |