Example sentences of "[adv] able [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his height , Walsh is obviously able to exploit bounce even on rather flat surfaces , and his stock ball to the right-hander is that which cuts back in , usually from just short of a length . |
| 2 | His business relationships with French collectors and dealers seem to have been remarkably close during the whole period of the revolution and the early years of Napoleon , and he was obviously able to exploit the opportunities of acquisition created by European upheaval . |
| 3 | I mean she 's obviously able to throw it off . |
| 4 | Hilton is writing for a nun for whom Lectio is apparently impossible , even though she was obviously able to read . |
| 5 | Rachel was acutely aware of Damian , obviously able to hear as he opened the rear door of his limousine for Domino . |
| 6 | So , the electorate can choose representatives for Parliament but it is less able to choose a government and a programme that will be implemented . |
| 7 | In view of the government 's ‘ presumption in favour of development ’ , which is enshrined in its latest planning policy guidance , it is not difficult to foresee a chaotic future in which intense development pressure is countered by equally intense environmental opposition with the county council less and less able to take a strategic view . |
| 8 | The first of these is that defeated and therefore less able to take unpopular albeit necessary measures . |
| 9 | As his furniture workshops expanded Gimson was less able to take part in the actual processes of making : his chief role became that of director and designer . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes — I never used to be tidy , you know , but since the children grew up I 'm less able to tolerate mess — and Christmas is so messy ! ’ |
| 11 | Consequently , we may lack confidence and feel less able to risk rejection . |
| 12 | Fertility control in the hands of others — be it her partner or the State — is less able to give her what she wants , because only she knows what her needs are . |
| 13 | Because women are largely con fined to jobs with low status and power , they will be relatively less able to engage in serious forms of white-collar and corporate crime . |
| 14 | getting intoxicated is always potentially dangerous : people may become more reckless than usual and be less able to deal with danger |
| 15 | More and more instructions , more and more complex in their nature descended more and more frequently upon local offices , but without any adequately effective co-ordination at the Headquarters level to ensure that those in the outfield had a clear enough idea of what their order of priorities should be as they became less and less able to deal effectively with the totality of their responsibilities . |
| 16 | Rhodes , by focusing on shifts within the organizational structures of the state , is able to identify some reasons for longer-term stability , but is less able to explain the extent of change since the late 1960s . |
| 17 | Since car ownership diminishes with age and since many older women can not drive , a clear form of discrimination emerges in the sense that such people suffer restricted opportunities to travel and are less able to enjoy the benefit of greater choice and lower prices . |
| 18 | The main message seems to be that women , for whatever reason , are less able to aspire to higher spiritual states than men . |
| 19 | In this case they are less able to perform their exclusive and critical functions 1–3 . |
| 20 | In the solid ( below the glass transition or in the crystalline state ) the " spaghetti " is somewhat less able to slide about than it is in the liquid state . |
| 21 | Better-informed people might be more cautious about the pills they take — and even less able to sue if things go wrong . |
| 22 | What is certain ( see Chapter 14 ) is that the fetus can respond to inputs from its mother which show a 24-hour period , whereas the newborn baby — particularly when premature — is much less able to respond to 24-hour rhythms in this new environment . |
| 23 | If indeed the public refrain from investing , the result is ‘ that the market becomes less liquid , and thus less able to fuel the expanding demands of free enterprise ’ . |
| 24 | I saw David shovelling more and more , he was getting more tired , more irritable , more run-down and less able to control the madness that was going on around him . |
| 25 | But as time went by , Jekyll became less and less able to control Hyde . |
| 26 | You will probably be less able to cope with the pressures of life ; the ability to cope and be relaxed does not come easily to a body that indulges in too little physical activity and is unhealthy . |
| 27 | Even if the quarrel is not started by you at all , you will be less able to cope and respond appropriately if you are already slightly under the weather . |
| 28 | Dr Joseph Miller , a clinical ecologist working in Alabama , writes : ‘ These patients are not basically neurotic , but they are less able to cope with daily problems because their symptoms distract and bewilder them . |
| 29 | The second type of explanation suggests that these people have some sort of defect that makes them less able to cope with environmental chemicals . |
| 30 | These specialized functions create dependency among those less able to cope . |