Example sentences of "[adv] to [be] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to find an adult ( parent , youth leader , etc ) who you trust enough to be able to talk to about all of your friendships . |
| 2 | I positioned myself in the entrance to the doorway sufficiently enough to be able to see through the er the window we have in the shield erm to see quickly into the room to see er what 's in the room and if there are any persons in the room . |
| 3 | ‘ The focus of my own emotions , ’ said Ian , ‘ is not , as I think Julia 's is , my family , whom I have always been fortunate enough to be able to take for granted , but rather is it the Church , about which I 'm unduly passionate . |
| 4 | In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there . |
| 5 | But that meaning is not determinate enough to be able to adjudicate between rival translations , so as to make it the case that at most one is right ( though we may never be able to tell which ) . |
| 6 | This species circles the porcupine like a mongoose dealing with a cobra , and confuses it enough to be able to strike at its only vulnerable zone — its head . |
| 7 | In both countries , a significant fraction is of ‘ unknown ’ origin or ‘ background ’ , in the air long enough to be difficult to assign to any one source . |
| 8 | He hoped greatly to be able to go to Oxford in the autumn ; there should be enough money from a sale to support his mother , his brother and himself till he obtained a degree and could earn his living . |
| 9 | It is good to know that Scottish Amicable has long since grown sufficiently to be able to invest in large properties . |
| 10 | It is essential , but not always obvious , that R&D workers should understand what accountants do sufficiently to be able to communicate with them and on occasion to negotiate change in the detail of how they do it . |
| 11 | It is essential , but not always obvious , that R&D workers should understand what accountants do sufficiently to be able to communicate with them and on occasion to negotiate change in the detail of how they do it . |
| 12 | It was a Thursday and Collins had to sign by five o'clock to be eligible to play on Saturday . |
| 13 | ‘ I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it . |
| 14 | We need not only to be able to swim in a sea of uncertainty but also to resist panic when we get out of our depth . |
| 15 | I 've been worried out of my head for so long it was a tremendous relief to me just to be able to talk to someone . |
| 16 | ‘ Just to be able to talk to someone means so much . |
| 17 | I have spent many hours of my life arguing that it is not necessary to have been in prison to write convincingly about prison conditions , not to be poor to declaim on the evils of poverty , nor black to describe racial discrimination . |
| 18 | " Nothing is more confusing to staff than not to be able to foresee with reasonable certainty how a significant issue is likely to be resolved " ( Earley and Fletcher Campbell 1989:184 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Ian is going to do my farm work , such as it is , but I 'll be sorry not to be able to attend to Mr Jarvis 's pigs . ’ |
| 20 | Is it a sin to love , to need love , not to be able to live without love ? |
| 21 | The reason why the Court found there was a right of access within Article 6(1) — that the rule of law required that the authorities ought not to be able to stand between individuals and tribunals — applies with equal force to a right to a judgment — that the authorities , including the courts themselves , ought not to be able to refuse litigants before them their judgments . |
| 22 | ‘ But it 's a terrible feeling ’ , said another , ‘ not to be able to cry with the most important person in your life . |
| 23 | All had been continuously resident for two months , had shown persistent disability , and were thought not to be able to look after themselves . |
| 24 | To say this is to adopt a quasi-evolutionary view , close to Minsky 's , not in terms of debugging and repair , but in terms of attention and processing load : to be able to concentrate on everything is not to be able to concentrate at all . |
| 25 | Non-career golfing ladies still comprise a majority of lady members and it probably does not make much practical difference to them not to be able to play on a Saturday or Sunday morning since they have access to the courses at all other times . |
| 26 | If trainees argue that the caring professions need always to be available to help with every problem , it would be an idea to ask them to make a list of five reasons and then submit these to open discussion . |
| 27 | In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed . |
| 28 | From May 6 restrictions on the amount of money Greek travellers to EC countries might take with them were relaxed , as part of a Bank of Greece package of liberalization measures to meet EC guidelines ; Greeks were also to be able to participate as individuals on EC member countries ' stock markets . |
| 29 | Lexicological units must not only be delimited paradigmatically , that is , within a constant syntactic frame : we want also to be able to say of two occurrences of a lexical form in different syntactic environments whether they are occurrences of the same lexical unit , or two different units . |
| 30 | We set up to be able to look at the refurbishment of our homes . |