Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the arable sector , it is clearly important to reduce the end price and to ensure that farmers are able to continue to look after the land . |
| 2 | ‘ Many people with this disease are able to continue to work for a very long time and there is no evidence to suggest that her condition and the error are necessarily linked . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It is also desirable that members of our senior squad not in the first team are able to continue playing at a reasonable level , and they have not been able to do this in the past . ’ |
| 4 | The extension means the company will be able to continue trading until the end of the year at least . |
| 5 | He kept talking about wanting to put things on to a sound financial footing , in which case none of us would have been able to afford to live in the club . |
| 6 | They need to be able to recognise on sight a large proportion of the words they encounter and to be able to predict meaning on the basis of phonic , idiomatic and grammatical regularities and of what makes sense in context ; children should be encouraged to make informed guesses . |
| 7 | It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world , without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace … there must be some agreement among the countries of Europe as to the requirements of the situation and the part those countries themselves will take in order to give proper effect to whatever action might be undertaken by this government . |
| 8 | Neither the parent nor the child was able to let go of the argument . |
| 9 | I hope you are pleasantly surprised at how much further you are now able to stretch compared with the early days of the programme . |
| 10 | Second , ‘ the plans themselves should consciously take note of such demand factors and , of critical importance , the plans should be sufficiently flexible to be able to respond to demand in the course of implementation — including the identification of criteria which , when met , should signal a need for a review . |
| 11 | The taxi driver was a friend of ours so we were able to relax driving to the Airport . |
| 12 | Outdoor types who would like to know more about dowsing will be able to get started with The Pendulum Kit ( Virgin , £12.99 ) . |
| 13 | They were able to pay to stay in a small chamber of the manor and bought their meals at the kitchen and buttery . |
| 14 | To find the information , the pupil had to : define exactly what he wanted to know decide how far he was able to travel to get to a sports centre find out the opening hours , which sports he was interested in and the cost of using the facilities |
| 15 | However , our interest here is in a generalization which we are now able to make concerning on the one hand the relationship between language and network structure , and on the other the social identity of the innovating group . |
| 16 | I said that 's done with you a bloody lot I said , a hundred and twenty pound a week that should be able to make do with a hundred and twenty pound a week easily |
| 17 | Culture , both in relation to the species and to the individual , is able to operate according to the reality principle , aiming to adapt the group , or the person , to the natural and social environment more realistically than would otherwise be the case . |
| 18 | Savers with Cheltenham & Gloucester , Eastbourne and Mornington building societies will be able to re-invest returned with no loss of interest . |