Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] to be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question we should like to be able to answer is , therefore , what suddenly created such a new , unheard of , situation in the religious life of antiquity . |
| 2 | Laocoon suffers ; but he suffers like Sophocles ' Philoctetes ; his misery pierces us to the soul ; but we should like to be able to bear anguish in the manner of this great man . |
| 3 | For we should have to be able to redescribe both the actions we currently regard as rational , and those we think of as requiring a reactive response , so as to overcome the contrast between them . |
| 4 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 5 | " We get on very well with our neighbours , " Michael explained , " and we decided that we 'd like to be able to look into each other 's gardens . |
| 6 | For example , we would want to be able to recover bracelet from the input bwacelet . |
| 7 | Furthermore , on other occasions the acoustic-phonetic information might be misleading ; we would want to be able to recover from or some other minor mispronunciation . |
| 8 | By cutting down on routine paperwork we would hope to be able to increase the level of ‘ customer contact ’ , which would improve the service and provide staff with more job satisfaction . |
| 9 | It hardly needs emphasizing that on any question that is interesting , such as social roles of the sexes , we would have to be able to read the historical record better than we now can in order to arrive at any strong conclusions about what is biologically discouraged . |
| 10 | Rather , we would need to be able to trace the development of our naive physical concepts , distinguishing their earlier , sensorimotor , forms from the later , linguistically-informed , semantic contents and inferential patterns . |
| 11 | We would like to be able to test whether a feasible solution ( x 1 , . |
| 12 | We would like to be able to recognise whether the BFS corresponding to P1/T2 , ( x 1 , x 2 , x 3 ) = ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) , is efficient . |
| 13 | We would like to be able to even out the load , by sharing usage where possible . |
| 14 | We would like to be able standardize the kit so all three teams wear the same colours . |
| 15 | We will want to be able to build high capacity systems so going to take on the class of applications that have traditionally been associated with a mainframe . |
| 16 | I have already quoted Mrs in her statement brackets C forty eight , saying although my husband and I would like to be able to care for Anna Jane as long as possible , I accept the last six years have taken their toll on us both and in reality it 's unlikely that we will continue to be able to provide the same level of care and outside is required , unquote . |