Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean … when will we know if they 're both going to be able to pull through ? ’ |
| 2 | Debbie Kitchen — whose wedding was filmed by Iraqi TV — cuddled tiny Samantha yesterday and said : ‘ We 're never going to be able to forget Iraq . |
| 3 | Mould this lot of nonsense down , because me as a boilermaker had to live forty four years and there ai n't enough people are still working to be able to run the sections . |
| 4 | In addition to being good teachers able to motivate their students they are also expected to be able to plan and present a scheme of work , write a syllabus with clear aims and objectives . |
| 5 | David Atkin , for example , was particularly interested in the issue of leisure opportunities : ‘ I want to find out how leisure activities can be improved because from what I 've seen most disabled people in Hexham are fairly limited in being able to get out . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Mandy , I suppose if you and I are going to be related there 's no hope at all I 'm ever going to be able to tamp down that irrepressible side of yours , is there ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm never going to be able to control it , am I ? ’ she said . |
| 8 | It seemed to Charles , waiting his turn at the public telephone box on the corner by his billet , that they were never going to be able to meet again . |
| 9 | Because it is ground offensive in sand , you want to be able to see that if you 're being shot , we could n't we could n't do that , and it became questionable whether we were actually going to be able to see the ground or not , so we called it aboard . |
| 10 | Alan Bleakley tells of some very fruitful rituals including working with archetypal images which have taken place at various stone circles in Cornwall where individuals were considerably helped by being able to tune in to the spirit of the place . |
| 11 | Just imagine the abuse with which they would be showered by people who would tell them : ‘ Since it is easily possible for the economy to grow at 4 , 5 , 6 per cent or any other figure you like , the public are being cheated of the growth of public expenditure which they have a right to enjoy by this niggardly Government which is only counting on being able safely to increase public expenditure at a rate of 2 to 2and1/2 ; per cent . ’ |
| 12 | While no one is ever going to be able to focus a SAM on a human heart operating in the ordinary way within the body , many researchers are interested in exploiting this special ability of the acoustic microscope in other ways : to detect otherwise invisible defects inside silicon chips and other microelectric assemblies . |
| 13 | The company is now hoping to be able to conduct further field trials in the US and Israel , both of which currently use pesticide sprays to control their pest problems . |
| 14 | I think also in those very tough times ahead I think it 's a very difficult decisions to be made about what services are provided erm , and what operation people are actually going to be able to have done and I wonder how much local people are gon na have a chance to say anything about that in the situation in which their health service their health authority is based so far away . |
| 15 | He thought he was never going to be able to get it out of his mind . |