Sentence examples for able to bid a from inspiring English sources
Sky is already easily able to outbid rivals for sports it wants, such as cricket, which is no longer on live on free television after Sky paid £50m a year to snatch the rights from Channel 4 (which was only able to bid a third of that sum) a few months before England's home Ashes triumph in 2005.
(In the U.S., the show airs on PBS). With deeper pockets than the publicly funded BBC, Channel 4 was able to bid a reported £25 million (roughly $32 million) for the rights to the hugely popular series.
Star Wars fans will also be able to bid for a Stormtrooper helmet from A New Hope, which is expected to fetch up to £60,000.
One reason is that union rules dictate that each pilot be able to bid for a better assignment (the bigger the plane, the higher the pay) whenever a vacancy opens.
Secondary schools will be able to bid for an additional five hours a week.
Local authorities will also be able to bid from a pot of £200m for filling potholes.
The firm I work for wouldn't be able to bid for a contract.
American companies will be able to bid on a new airport in Osaka.
He wrote: "Thank you all for your messages... in the next few days I will be able to bid you a proper farewell".
Under the agreement in Kiev, American companies will be able to bid on a $1.2 billion contract to complete two unfinished Soviet-era reactors in Ukraine.
Rival broadcasters will be able to bid for a £20m pot (from previously unallocated funding) to make public service programmes such as children's TV, but only on a trial basis.
