Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Some schools have been able to co-ordinate work with the National Film School , where a script has been written for the personalities in a group and then filmed on location , and this worked effectively . ) |
| 2 | Hitherto , few secondary schools have been able to do this consistently . |
| 3 | Despite the much-needed rain , schools have been able to play a substantial amount of cricket before turning to address the examiners rather than their opponents . |
| 4 | Since 1 August , the self-drive hire firms , private taxis and driving schools have been able to reclaim tax paid on cars purchased for their businesses . |
| 5 | Under PNP , schools have been able to break away from the traditional conception of primary school professional life centring on just two roles : those of head and class teacher . |
| 6 | Has my right honourable friend had time to study the recent annual survey of grant maintained schools which shows that since becoming grant maintained , schools have been able to recruit more teachers , improve their results and offer better facilities for their pupils . |
| 7 | What possible reason would scholars of the distant future have been able to deduce from that verbiage to explain the consumption of vast resources on the Civic Centre in Bucharest — except the desire to perpetuate domination even from beyond the grave ? |
| 8 | Not every bomb has hit its target , but in Baghdad — the only place western journalists have been able briefly to observe — many clearly did . |
| 9 | Duncan Campbell and other journalists have been able to reveal intimate details of the workings of the system , as has Cathy Massiter , a former MI5 employee who ‘ went public ’ in a Channel 4 television programme . |
| 10 | There were wall-sized French windows through which she would in daylight have been able to see the back garden . |
| 11 | We feel greatly strengthened by the knowledge that women from the different revolutionary organizations have been able to come together and agree on certain basic principles about what we , as women , are fighting for . |
| 12 | Boris Ford thought that Lord Robbins and his Committee had to accept some of the blame ‘ for the ease with which the grey eminences at the Department have been able to enlist radical ministers like Sir Edward Boyle and Mr Crosland in support of policies that are socially and academically reactionary ’ . |
| 13 | But , although Marxists have been able to refute empiricist critiques of their theories by these methods , it has been the case that the original theory has come under severe strain , and this is one reason for the development of the modern structuralist approaches . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most glaring example of this problem of non-falsifiability can be found in the manner in which Marxists have been able to argue that state spending is functional for capitalism : increases in state spending are functional since they increase effective demand and legitimacy , yet so are decreases in state spending since they increase the profitability private sector firms . |
| 15 | In spite of the fact that many books and articles have been published on such well known masters as Malevich , Kandinsky , Tatlin , Larionov , Goncharova and others , the authors have been able to find genuinely new material about the Russian Avant-garde . |
| 16 | Inspectors have been able to control elements of expenditure , although LMS will largely stop this . |
| 17 | For example , one partner facilitated the removal of carpet tiles so that our staff and parents have been able to carpet most of the school . |
| 18 | In comparison to the way in which fraud , obfuscation and inanity have been able to hold out in other fields — from politics and religion to scholarship and law — it is an impressive record . |
| 19 | Until very recently housing associations have been able to have their own policies as to whom they can house , as well as housing a certain proportion of people from the housing waiting-list as part of their financial agreement with the local authority . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As Lall ( 1985 ) and others have noted , some developing countries have been able to create ‘ localised technical advances ’ that emphasise their relatively greater knowledge of low-wage countries and so establish advantage in neighbouring markets . |
| 23 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 24 | Plagued by years of opencast development in their areas some local communities have been able to mount an effective campaign against individual applications . |
| 25 | They have been particularly badly hit in the current recession , not having the cash reserves and greater bargaining power with the banks that larger companies have been able to draw on , to ensure survival . |
| 26 | Cloners outside the Sparc International Executive Committee have been able to place orders since August and get at least sample quantities , but they reportedly have had to wait the ‘ industry average ’ of fourteen to eighteen weeks to get volumes . |
| 27 | The Committee have been able to smooth out a lot of anxieties on this item , although it is impossible to make everyone happy on such a diverse subject . |
| 28 | Since February 22 , passengers buying a cheap day return have been able to get a second ticket for £1 . |
| 29 | The first is the way the Conservatives have been able to sustain their vote at a consistently high level . |
| 30 | By contrast , the Conservatives have been able to raise public spending by nearly a quarter in real terms . |