Example sentences of "is able [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seen to be an ‘ effect ’ of the Universal or Unified Field , it is able to transmit energy patterns from one natural source to another and give rise to a physical formation of those patterns — in other words , the field is believed to be the agent for creation , growth and development throughout nature . |
| 2 | Although these coarser grains can not be removed directly by the wind , the impact derived from saltation is able to move grains six times the size of those forming the saltation . |
| 3 | Interestingly , pou[c] is able to stimulate initiation of adenovirus DNA replication in vitro ( C.P.Verrijzer and P.C.van der Vliet , personal communication ) suggesting that this ability may also be a general feature of POU domain proteins . |
| 4 | Through the love and compassion of Jesus the missionary is able to return time after time until this love has broken through and the message is accepted . |
| 5 | This is a language , a world view , a form of life perhaps , wherein one of the principal reasons for according praise to a type of art is that it is able to give voice to a politics ; Bolshevism in the main case , though as Callinicos acknowledges , one of the salient points about Modernism was its ‘ ambiguity , its capacity to express a variety of different political positions ’ ; that is , when it was not engaged on its more usual ‘ flight from politics ’ ( p. 161 ) . |
| 6 | God is sovereign , and he is able to give value to the performance according to his purposes . |
| 7 | The enhanced gdb debugger , integrated with the browser which is able to represent code structure and class relationships graphically , can reportedly debug multiple C and C++ programs simultaneously . |
| 8 | ‘ it assumes that since Satan is able to use culture to his ends , all of culture is evil . |
| 9 | The school which , for whatever reason , enjoys parental support , is able to use parents as a means of increasing its resources . |
| 10 | He is able to use capital productively because he can buy the workers ' labour power and the price he pays is the subsistence wage . |
| 11 | In Brazil , for example , the Anopheles darlingi is able to exploit conditions such as pools of water created by the construction of settlements and road construction , opencast mining and eroded land , to breed in far greater numbers than normal , resulting in a population explosion . |
| 12 | He is able to talk man to man with the Chartist delegates , in the confidence that his family has worked through many generations for the common good — building churches and bridges , making roads , digging mines , planting trees , and draining marshland . |
| 13 | It is able to recycle material which is now being expensively destroyed in incinerators or dumped into the sea , where it may act as a source of marine pollution . |
| 14 | Nevertheless the onus of proof is in my view on demonstrating that the large is able to do things the small can not , as well as not hampering the smaller units . |
| 15 | It is splendid news that Mr Smith is able to renounce socialism and even better that Gordon Brown and Tony Blair and even wee Nigel Griffiths are going to pursue the ugly connections between Tory plutocrats and regulations that block the free market . |
| 16 | Thanks to the money that used to come from Saudi Arabia , and now comes from Iran , it is able to finance schools , universities and clinics . |
| 17 | Thus , without innervation , the muscle ‘ knows ’ the location of the normal NMJ sites and is able to restrict expression of certain molecules to these specialized membrane regions ; definition of NMJ sites is independent of innervation . |
| 18 | I hope that the Minister is able to deny newspaper reports about the Government 's attitude to safety . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | During the two phases of Pilot schemes , which were essentially experimental , detailed policy could only be formulated for the short term but , as the new system is becoming established , this letter is able to state policy for a longer period . |
| 21 | She says ‘ no ’ more often , rather than suffering or withdrawing , and she is able to remind people of her difficulty in concentrating on more than one thing at a time . |
| 22 | Only the ear ( not the skin ) is able to detect vibrations that are above eight hundred cycles per second . |
| 23 | The technique of P-postlabelling is more sensitive and is able to detect DNA adducts without any previous knowledge of their chemical structure . |
| 24 | In situ hybridisation offers a unique means to overcome most of these problems because it is able to detect mRNA sequences within cells and therefore allows precise localisation within histological preparations . |
| 25 | The resulting plasmid , pPYACRC5 ( Fig. 1 ) , carries all sequences from pYACRC and is able to transform yeast AB1380 spheroplasts as other YAC vectors . |
| 26 | Thus having first laid down a basis of material being , material forms , forces , existences in which it seems to be lying inconscient , though in reality , as we know always subconsciously at work , it is able to manifest life and living beings , to manifest mind and mental beings in a material world , and must therefore be able to manifest their supermind also and supramental beings . |
| 27 | A GYROSTABILISER consists of a small , rapidly spinning , motor-driven flywheel which is able to sense movement of a model about any chosen axis and apply a cancelling movement to the appropriate servo . |
| 28 | There may be social aspects of the visually handicapped pupil 's life at school that can be helped by a perceptive specialist teacher who is able to facilitate communication over matters that a sensitive child or adolescent may be embarrassed to disclose . |
| 29 | If he wishes to find out whether she is endowed with a witch 's power of preserving silence , let him take note whether she is able to shed tears when standing in his presence or when being tortured . |
| 30 | Firstly , a small saver is able to minimise risk by investing quite cheaply in a much wider range of assets than would be possible by direct investment . |