Example sentences of "[noun sg] able [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major contradiction that they detected was between his vision of a European ensemble able to challenge the two existing superpowers and his narrowly nationalist priorities . |
| 2 | The gondola which takes skiers from load level up to the skiing area proved as popular with visitors last summer as it had in its first winter , with tourists of all ages and states of infirmity able to enjoy the marvellous view along Loch Eli and the Great Glen . |
| 3 | There was full provision for verification with each side able to investigate the other side 's compliance with the treaty . |
| 4 | But not even Barnes could break down a Springbok side able to absorb the most intense pressure and punish every error . |
| 5 | A mortgage valuation may be considered sufficient for a lending institution able to spread the risk across many loans , and which also has the benefit of the security of each borrower 's income as well as the property . |
| 6 | Only with levels of NCp7 which completely cover the DNA was the protein able to protect the DNA from digestion ( data not shown ) . |
| 7 | That will decide whether we have a mining industry able to supply the demand for coal in the medium and long term , or whether we shall have the Rothschild recommendations . |
| 8 | Mozart may have sorted through hundreds of librettos discontentedly and only produced his masterpieces after finding a poet able to construct the librettos he needed , but , in his apprentice years , he had set the standard texts of the professional theatre hacks . |
| 9 | In their campaign to rupture parliamentary discretion and medical hegemony , the women and men of the repeal movement drew on the only vocabulary able to bear the moral and intellectual weight of their challenge . |
| 10 | Now when that sort of ‘ I see ’ response is missing from the child , then I think we 've got to think in terms of ‘ Is this child able to understand the verbal and visual symbols we 're offering ? ’ |
| 11 | Furthermore because the Hall voltage is independent of the gate voltage V g , on a plateau , there must also be some form of electron reservoir able to keep the electron density constant , for , remember , the Hall voltage should depend on the density of mobile electrons . |
| 12 | Mr Lloyd said yesterday : ‘ My duty is to get the management able to provide the most constructive and positive regime for prisoners and to secure the best value for money . |
| 13 | The platinum fabrication operations previously carried out in Brussels have been successfully moved to Royston , where we now have a single manufacturing site able to serve the whole of Europe . |
| 14 | As mentioned earlier , the art of editing material is one that has to be acquired ; it is time-consuming and any group able to acquire the talents of an experienced editor will be well advised to do so . |
| 15 | The AT , on the other hand , wanted the groups to continue as an association with individual members of each group able to join the new party if they wished . |
| 16 | An organism able to check the growth of a competing species is fortunate and better equipped to survive , so we should expect that many living organisms are successful exponents of chemical warfare . |
| 17 | Future developments hopefully will lead to better and more reliable tests of platelet function able to establish the prethrombotic state with more certainty . |
| 18 | But most of all he must be a tactical genius able to out-manoeuvre the opposition at a moment 's notice . |
| 19 | A penalty goal apiece were the only scores of a scrappy and disjointed first half with neither back division able to escape the attentions of the opposing back rows . |
| 20 | The transfer of sums out of the creditors ' total in the balance sheet does not , of itself , imply dishonesty and would not be an offence under the Theft Act 1968 , since any creditor able to prove the sum owing within the six year limitation period would be paid , regardless of the accounting treatment adopted . |
| 21 | Peace and security , they argued , could be achieved only by the creation of some effective international authority able to override the selfish or aggressive impulses of any individual ruler and to persuade him , if necessary by force , to respect the rights of his neighbours . |
| 22 | Irrespective of the means provided to bring automatic roof vents and sprinkler systems into operations , automatic fire detection able to sense the presence of a smouldering fire may be important to reduce damage to some forms of goods if the premises are to be at any time unoccupied . |
| 23 | And what are the constraints on possible perceptions : for instance , is it in principle possible that a creature able to perceive the motion of an individual object might be able to perceive the object 's shape ? |
| 24 | We are fortunate inbeing able to use the video camera at training weekends and once you have over come the shock of seeing yourself , most students find it a valuable addition to their training . |
| 25 | Since then Johnson Matthey has played a major part in the development of methods of refining and melting platinum and iridium in order to produce ingots of alloy able to meet the metric commission requirements . |
| 26 | Carter 's success in obtaining the nomination rested on three strengths : first , a long , energetic and assiduous campaign aided by media hype ; second , his position as a centrist candidate able to unite the liberal and conservative wings of the party ; third , his position as a Washington outsider untainted by the current collapse of confidence in political leaders . |
| 27 | If they do more adversely affect women , our track record in using the legal process that we have , faulty and flawed that it is , might mean that we are in some way able to address the problem . |
| 28 | In generic terms , both Banfield and Galtung reiterate the familiar theme that the fundamental problem is the lack of entrepreneurs both in economics and in politics able to show the peripheral masses how to make the system work for them . |
| 29 | These resolutions , for the most part the outcome of pragmatic adaptation of a moderate collectivism enshrined in Labour and the new social order , and the implementation of constitutional change , were to lay the foundations of a mass party able to command the loyalty of large sections of the enfranchised working class . |