Example sentences of "able [to-vb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tindemans Report ( 1976 ) recommended a gradual approach towards EMU , and suggested that the countries able to proceed in the direction of monetary union should do so , and others should follow suit later when conditions became more favourable . |
| 2 | Every experience we have should make us better able to cope in the future . |
| 3 | The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes . |
| 4 | They , along with a growing number of church ministries , are able to minister in the power of the Holy Spirit with notable success . |
| 5 | The folks in the big house across the river might be able to sit in the afternoon sun , but after a dray cracking of routes like these you 'll be the one left with the afterglow . |
| 6 | I was able to sit in the cockpit of many aircraft including the phantom , tornado , mig 21 , Hercules and buccaneer . |
| 7 | She wanted now , at any price , to be able to sit in the rooms of young women who could be her friends and not feel that she was travelling in territory stranger than the night caves that were Fenna 's home . |
| 8 | Used be able to sit in the car would be go up the back do n't they ? |
| 9 | We begin by tracing the position before 1985 , when state agents were able to indulge in the practice of telephone-tapping without any direct legal authority . |
| 10 | One must wonder whether the book trade will continue to have the large and complicated distribution systems which it has been able to support in the past . |
| 11 | A more significant task for class analysis is comprehending the emergence of a proto-middle class grouping narrowly constituted around the toeholds which some blacks have been able to acquire in the professions , mostly those related directly to the welfare state itself — social work , teaching , and now antiracist bureaucracies . |
| 12 | Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 . |
| 13 | They may be able to see in the dark , sense compass direction , and recognize danger . |
| 14 | Maybe it might even affect his work and he would n't be able to concentrate in the afternoon . |
| 15 | It is a fact of life , however , that membership by graduation is not mandatory before being able to work in the credit management profession , unlike accountants and others . |
| 16 | That summer I thought I was going to be able to work in the shop full-time up until I started at St. Martin 's School of Art in the autumn . |
| 17 | But many democrats , in France and elsewhere , were concerned that the traditionally dominant minority of the rich and propertied should no longer be able to stand in the way of the will and the interests of the great majority . |
| 18 | Not only would she be able to stand in the Commons bar and glare at Conservatives who betrayed her during the leadership contest , thus putting them off their ill-earned whiskies , but chastise those responsible for mishandling the Tory campaign . |
| 19 | There is a need to ensure that we will be able to provide in the future the range and type of courses , especially the technologically/vocationally orientated courses that will be offered in F.E./tertiary colleges . |
| 20 | Perhaps they hoped that it would be able to hide in the fog . |
| 21 | She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall . |
| 22 | This is reflected in the syllabus for the Institute examinations which are held at centres throughout the U.K. The first and most essential requirement of any student for any professional examination is that he or she must be able to communicate in the language ( in which he or she will be examined . ) |
| 23 | If she decides to forgive and forget , as she did after previous takeover attempts , she might not be able to rein in the military . |
| 24 | Whether these agencies will be able to compensate in the mid-1980s for the loss of assisted area status is doubtful . |
| 25 | At moments of crisis a nation needs a leader able to lead in the way Margaret Thatcher led then . |
| 26 | We think probably the reverse is the case , and we feel certain that if the industrious factory woman were able to deposit in the savings bank a portion of her earnings in her own name , the school pence for her children would be very seldom withheld ’ . |
| 27 | They also want to know when they will be able to participate in the share option scheme . |
| 28 | Both Crook and NUJ officials were able to participate in the settlement negotiations , conducted with the help of the European Commission , which led to the drafting of s159 . |
| 29 | Yet in this respect as in many others , few families are a complete law unto themselves , and many children are able to participate in the culture of the playground or the street in happy ignorance or gleeful defiance of adult wishes . |
| 30 | Pupils with special educational needs should therefore be able to participate in the attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment arrangements , subject where appropriate to the modifications we recommend below . |