Example sentences of "[be] able [to-vb] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has already been noted that interactions between infant and adult lead to the development of pre-verbal communicative exchanges in which adult and child are able to refer to objects and events ; successful joint reference makes it possible for these external objects and events to become ‘ topics ’ for further exchanges . |
| 2 | In several respects the specialist library suppliers differ from general booksellers in the services they are able to offer to libraries . |
| 3 | We are able to get to rabbits in situations where they have few enemies , where they are generally safe — and they have no sanctuary if we do the work well . |
| 4 | Provided that parents are able to come to terms with the possible jealousy and envy of their children , there is more scope for the two generations to enjoy easy friendship and to accept one another . |
| 5 | ‘ Never been able to get to grips with the difference between illusion and reality . ’ |
| 6 | She had not been able to come to terms with her ‘ public position ’ . |
| 7 | Sales Desk staff would be able to talk to customers and simultaneously operate a VDU obtaining instant information . |
| 8 | All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've got to be able to talk to workmen , and get things done during pollutions — find things out . |
| 10 | IBM Corp is still not ready with a full scale disk array for its mainframes , but next week , the company is expected to come out with the new 3390-9 disk drives , offering three times the capacity of the 3390-3 — could be as much as 60Gb on the As , 100Gb on the Bs ( CI No 2,046 ) — but they will be somewhat slower than the existing ones : a new 3990 controller that will be able to talk to disks that do not exist yet is expected to follow later , probably in the autumn . |
| 11 | Therefore providers ought to be able to agree to contracts for these services at a lower price . |
| 12 | They will be more able to develop consensus views based on direct observation and will be able to enthuse to others in the community about what they have seen . |
| 13 | Those interested in , or who need to be able to refer to matters connected with the law and practice of wills , estates and trusts . |
| 14 | It is also undoubtedly useful for teachers to be able to refer to features of pupils ' work when they are correcting it or trying to help pupils in some way . |
| 15 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 16 | erm I think in terms of techniques is is is a level of awareness really , to be able to respond to children erm with their curiosity and with their erm expressions of anxiety erm in a way that makes it all right for them to be feeling the way they are , and I do n't think it 's simple as just saying a technique , I think it 's what we can offer as adults comes from an inner awareness that we have as adults , that we can convey to our children , because it 's not just the techniques , or the behaviour , or the words that we use , but it 's those feelings behind the words . |
| 17 | I am writing to invite you to attend a meeting starting in the School Hall on at 7.30 pm , after which you will be able to speak to Heads of Department in their rooms . |
| 18 | At that meeting he will be able to announce to clubs that ITV has agreed to pay more than £7m over the next four years , an extension of a contract in which it paid £10.5m over five years . |
| 19 | The rationale is interesting , and as so often with Justinian it has a moralistic flavour : ‘ because it is quite ridiculous and unreasonable that an object which someone does not absolutely possess among his property he should be able to transfer to others or charge as a hypothec or pledge or manumit and deceive the hopes of others . ’ |
| 20 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 21 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 22 | Would he be able to come to terms with them , as she , herself , had begun to , albeit reluctantly ? |
| 23 | Members are all ages , from young mothers to greatgrandmothers , and it is wonderful to be able to chat to women who have a whole range of experience . |
| 24 | A traditional critic has the advantage of being able to turn to standards and values inherited from the past . |
| 25 | Pupils may lose their reason for working unless they have learned to work for themselves , to value the pleasure that comes with seeing , and with being able to explain to others . |
| 26 | erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries . |
| 27 | Indeed , voluntary helpers were seen by many observers to be indispensable intermediaries between the state and the home precisely because as ‘ friendly visitors ’ they were able to respond to individuals . |
| 28 | CREB is able to bind to promoters that are induced by a variety of agents other than cAMP ( including Ca 2+ ( 8 , 9 ) and the adenovirus E1A protein ( 10 , 11 , 12 ) ) and is thought to activate a functionally diverse array of genes in response to elevated cAMP . |
| 29 | The Earl of Cumberland had a profitable licence to export undressed cloth , which he was able to sell to merchants . |
| 30 | This woman was able to come to terms with her aggressive pattern by ‘ unscrambling ’ it and beginning to understand the roots of the problem . |