Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] to go " in BNC.
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| 1 | She imagined that after playing tennis and having tea , they would go on somewhere and she would like to be available to go with them . |
| 2 | There is a tendency therefore for young teachers to be unwilling to go to a rural school ; and for over a third of headteachers to live in the nearest large town . |
| 3 | Used to be lovely to go on a trip with him . |
| 4 | The very nature of their distress means that they are likely to be unable to go out and face the social whirl , at least initially . |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it was trying with NT , and is now thought to be unlikely to go with the $99 price . |
| 6 | Oh yes , it used to be wonderful to go there … |
| 7 | The RCM seemed to be prepared to go along with this , until they discovered that Willy was also in trouble with his employer , a Jeweller who caught the boy pocketing a silver cigarette case . |
| 8 | They wanted to be ready to go to the South Pole at the beginning of the next Antarctic summer . |
| 9 | Why was she making excuses anyway ? she scoffed , as a flick of a glance to the small and feminine watch on her wrist showed she should leave her room to be ready to go down for when the taxi arrived . |
| 10 | There is , true enough , no bank to poke into — get round the first headland and the next bank is the shore of Svalbard — but it would still be a good idea to be able to go in a straight line . |
| 11 | They like to be able to go to a show and to be able to see something that they do n't see in their everyday lives — you know , catching the bus to go work or coming home on the bus . |
| 12 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 13 | Val was more indignant than Roland about this event , and her indignation upset him as much as his own failure , for he liked Fergus and wanted to be able to go on liking him . |
| 14 | Training alone has never bothered me at all , but it 's nice to be able to go down the pub for a good chinwag after a session . ’ |
| 15 | You must think yourselves lucky to be able to go to Thrush Green as often as you do . ’ |
| 16 | I was sad not to be able to go back to Fulham for St Cecilia 's Day . |
| 17 | Also , not to be able to take part in things and not to be able to go out in the evening I find difficult . |
| 18 | ‘ Within an hour the headache had vanished , the sickness was fading and I felt bright enough to be able to go out . ’ |
| 19 | We 're not going to be able to go on as we are . |
| 20 | I asked Joyce what aspect of her phobia she felt still remained and she said that she would like to be able to go into an open space such as a park , where there were likely to be many more birds around . |
| 21 | She wants to be able to go ahead with their plans for a family even if he dies . |
| 22 | Benny was going to be able to go to University College , Dublin , to study for a BA degree because her parents had saved to pay for her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Magazines are fine , but you want to be able to go into bookshops and have access to other people 's minds and lives through fiction . |
| 25 | ‘ All I want is to be able to go out and play with my friends , ’ she says . |
| 26 | But it has only been half successful because everyone wants to be able to go everywhere . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's hardly petty to want to be able to go for a walk along a public right of way . |
| 28 | But I consider myself perfectly competent to be able to go to court , make applications for remand , make pleas of mitigation where there 's a guilty plea and also conduct a case in such a way as to be able to pass it over to someone else in the practice . |
| 29 | I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ? |
| 30 | I realised that I was lucky to be able to go to England and teach . |