Example sentences of "[adv] able [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the separation of political power from the family , women were less able to influence the process of political recruitment or to act as substitutes for their men . |
| 5 | The backwash is reduced in energy by the percolation of water into the shingle , so that the backwash is not necessarily able to return the material carried forward by the swash in spite of the fact that it is combined with the effect of gravity , whereas the swash is acting against gravity . |
| 6 | The low RF interference and low component count claims are usually made because the Cuk topology is not only able to accommodate the input and output filter chokes on the same magnetic core as the transformer , but it can also reduce the input and output ripple currents to very low levels . |
| 7 | In that year a lady and a little girl ( presumably the daughter ) fell from an otherwise deserted station platform into the path of an oncoming train ; the station master on seeing the incident attempted to rescue them both but was only able to save the girl . |
| 8 | Aneurin Bevan was only able to defeat the opposition of doctors to the National Health Service in 1944 by buckling together a compromise with Lord Moran , president of the Royal College of Physicians , ‘ stuffing their mouths with silver ’ , and promising to respect their independent practice . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I only found the portrait — I was only able to identify the man in her diary when I had to go out to the cottage last Saturday . |
| 10 | I am pleased to report that in 1992 I was able to substantially achieve one of the objects of my Presidency , the refurbishment of the main exhibition galleries at Portland Place , making it more welcoming to members and the public and better able to put the case for architecture . |
| 11 | His correspondence concerning rowdiness ( a matter on which many people have written , especially since sound broadcasting of Parliament started ) had decreased , perhaps because the public were better able to appreciate the context in which noise arose . |
| 12 | The result is an epidermis which is better able to mimic the softness and freshness of younger skin . |
| 13 | 1 Decide whether or not a photograph is really needed or whether a drawing might not be better able to make the point . |
| 14 | I believe , therefore , that it is not implausible to infer from these findings that a substantial fraction of Labour voters reckoned merely that the party would be able to form a more competent and moderate government , and would be better able to defuse the crisis , although one should not discount the continued existence of a ‘ class reflex ’ vote owing little to any elaborate political calculation . |
| 15 | Equipped with this knowledge , those involved in the production , storage and dissemination of publicly available information should be better able to assist the business sector by providing more effective services . |
| 16 | Secondary females adjust their clutch size so that they will be better able to rear the brood . |
| 17 | The listener is better able to recognise the grammar and syntactic structure of what is being said by using the information contained in the intonation : for example , such things as the placement of boundaries between phrases , clauses or sentences , the difference between questions and statements and the use of grammatical subordination may be indicated . |
| 18 | I had not intended to intrude on my hon. Friend 's speech , but does he consider that a schoolteacher , whose salary is fixed through national wage agreements by the independent pay review body for teachers and who lives in my hon. Friend 's or my constituency in the south-east , is better able to afford the council tax on a higher band than a teacher who lives in Darlington or elsewhere in the north ? |
| 19 | Before the recession , businesses were better able to absorb the problem . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , many a London manufacturer had profited by it and was easily able to afford the type of little memento shown in 57 . |
| 21 | The National Curriculum was introduced also , alongside L M S and we 're already able to see the success of that now . |
| 22 | Now , however , four days later , having escaped into Austria himself , Loehr was making a final attempt to surrender his forces to the British , saying that he was not longer able to control the movement northwards into Austria either of his own German troops , or of a huge column of Croat troops and civilian refugees advancing from Zagreb on the frontier town of Dravograd , south-east of Klagenfurt . |
| 23 | The point is not merely that decisions about the day to day operation of the business or even long-term strategy have been taken out of the shareholders ' hands — this is the intended , central advantage of the corporate form — but that the shareholders are no longer able to shape the purpose for which the business is run , that is , they are unable to oblige management to maximise profits . |
| 24 | If the eye 's owner employs the more obvious technique of closing the eye , it is no longer able to monitor the predator 's movements . |
| 25 | By the end of the 1970s the American electorate was in a fluid , dealigned state with parties no longer able to provide the degree of structure that they had contributed in the past . |
| 26 | If , due to events beyond our control , we are no longer able to provide the holiday booked , we will return to you all monies paid , or offer you an alternative holiday of comparable standard . |
| 27 | When a liquid freezes , the molecular character of its surface is not too greatly changed and the energy of the surface remains much the same although the surface tension is no longer able to change the shape of small particles by rounding them off into drops . |
| 28 | In the Introduction Taylor explained that he had committed these rules to a book because many of ‘ his brethren in persecution ’ were no longer able to seek the advice of Anglican Ministers . |
| 29 | They were barely out of the club before Rory turned on Adam , no longer able to keep the lid on her simmering anger . |
| 30 | Believers very often cease to believe because such suffering makes them no longer able to accept the goodness of God . |