Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] are able [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you would let me know what action you are able to take on this matter . |
| 2 | When you spread work like this over a very long period you are able to look into yourself , and see yourself in a great work of art . |
| 3 | Lone mothers in other studies have described how their greater control of resources can offset the lower incomes they are able to secure for their families ( Evason , 1980 ; Graham , 1987b ; Bradshaw and Millar , 1991 ) . |
| 4 | Through the Trans Vox they are able to talk to each other . |
| 5 | In a constantly changing economic environment we are able to draw on the strengths of our parent companies — The Royal Bank of Scotland and Scottish Equitable — and create effective and flexible ways to meet the needs of people like you . |
| 6 | The concept of parental rights in education could be said to be concerned with the ability of parents to extend the control they are able to exert within the family to their child 's formal education , thus protecting their ‘ interest ’ in the child . |
| 7 | In several respects the specialist library suppliers differ from general booksellers in the services they are able to offer to libraries . |
| 8 | To some extent we are able to get round the problems of localizing lesion sites by using modem imaging techniques like NMR ( nuclear magnetic resonance ) and CAT ( computerized axial tomography ) scanning ( Carlson 1986 ) . |