Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme has been particularly helpful where the mentor has been able to support the work of the school with pupils at risk and/or with special educational needs . |
| 2 | It is only recently that Champagne has been able to boast as many as seventeen grands crus . |
| 3 | During the last few years the Printing Division has been able to offer photosetting via its P.E . |
| 4 | However , the second language literature has been able to go beyond this simple finding and attributes the age effect to the various underlying variables of motivation , as well as degree of contact . |
| 5 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |
| 6 | This is an interesting plan and I am delighted that my Department has been able to offer a grant to help it . |
| 7 | It is the first time the industry has been able to purchase cover for long-term environmental damage although it does buy insurance against sudden pollution incidents or claims from disasters such as explosions . |
| 8 | But the Ellesmere Port complex has been able to ride out the recession by exporting its highly-successful Astra/Opel range , particularly to the buoyant German economy . |
| 9 | It will become clear on June 5th whether the president has been able to exploit this split . |
| 10 | Voting patterns are a complex business and my colleague , Keith Britto , who is an expert in these things , tells me that no research has been able to disentangle all the strands of voting motivation , a crucial point to remember in planning a campaign ! |
| 11 | Mainstreaming is a very good example of where our policies push beyond what our research has been able to show . |
| 12 | As a result of this the club has been able to run at a constant level of activity . |
| 13 | Fluency means being able to speak promptly , without a lot of hesitation or stumbling . |
| 14 | In Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby there was no doubt that the defendant knew of business secrets but the court decided they were far too complicated and detailed for the defendant to have been able to carry them away in his head and as there was no evidence of actual copying , this part of the claim failed . |
| 15 | It was around Lake Baikal that the woman in pink had been able to share in her daughter 's delight with the journey . |
| 16 | It is perhaps for that reason that the pensions industry had been able to get away with such arrangements for so long . |
| 17 | Yet the image had addressed Jaq as if some outside force had been able to intervene in his holy trance through the agency of that Discordia card , hacking into the pack . |
| 18 | What possible reason would scholars of the distant future have been able to deduce from that verbiage to explain the consumption of vast resources on the Civic Centre in Bucharest — except the desire to perpetuate domination even from beyond the grave ? |
| 19 | There were wall-sized French windows through which she would in daylight have been able to see the back garden . |
| 20 | Boris Ford thought that Lord Robbins and his Committee had to accept some of the blame ‘ for the ease with which the grey eminences at the Department have been able to enlist radical ministers like Sir Edward Boyle and Mr Crosland in support of policies that are socially and academically reactionary ’ . |
| 21 | What Making Belfast Work has been able to do is draw on the ability of what Mrs. Thatcher would call West Belfast 's ‘ active citizens ’ to develop many of the self-help projects that have characterised the enterprising nature of the community for many years . |
| 22 | British intelligence has been able to secure numerous local informers and agents through blackmail , bribery and straight payments . |
| 23 | Large-scale unionism has declined and management has been able to organize the labour process directly without concern for unions ' power . |
| 24 | TI says it 'll make a statement about the report later on tonight when management has been able to consult the entire workforce . |
| 25 | The purchase of land also presupposes that the peasantry involved were able to accumulate cash , which can have been done only by the production of surplus crops and their sale in a market . |
| 26 | The Chancellor has been able to offer this help because he has found some extra money in the Exchequer 's coffers . |
| 27 | With financial support from the Ancient India and Iran Trust in Cambridge , the Fitzwilliam Museum has been able to mount a loan exhibition of antiquities of ancient Afghanistan and Pakistan . |
| 28 | In defence of some of my clients in the national museums and galleries , I should point out that , for example , the Victoria and Albert museum has been able to extend its opening hours . |
| 29 | Is it not sad that no Cleveland Conservative has been able to come and represent the children of Cleveland today , and that that task has had to be left to a Conservative from Ealing ? |
| 30 | I believe that this application for a residence order is yet another step in this game and that neither parent has been able or willing to see matters from the children 's point of view or in terms of their feelings , experiences and level of understanding . |