1.   The University acts as a magnet not only for a wide range of able students from across the UK, but world-wide.

2.   The five-year MEng honours degree course is for particularly able students who expect to assume responsible positions in industry immediately after graduation.

3.   Critics contend that in a world of scarce resources, money is better spent on less able students, presuming that gifted students will excel no matter what.

4.   Critics, however, contend that athletes are claiming places that would otherwise go to more academically able students.

5.   He described her as an able student, but one who needed hand-holding in subjects she did not know well.

6.   Second- and third-tier schools began to offer merit scholarships to attract academically able students.

7.   The Bank of Thailand has had a policy of granting scholarships to able students since Dr Puey Ungphakorn was governor.

8.   Some black teachers confess to failing able students simply because they do not know how to write about a subject in good English.