Example sentences of "be able [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most you may be able to say at the end of it is that you ‘ gained understanding ’ ; to some of us that may be unsatisfactorily intangible , while to others it may be of profound significance . |
| 2 | Only if you do that will you be able to say with confidence that I am wrong , that what I am suggesting has not yet come to pass , that there is still time . |
| 3 | Let us be able to say with the Seer : |
| 4 | If the housing visit is carried out too early , say six months before the transfer date , landlords are unlikely to be able to say with any certainty whether property is likely to be available for rent . |
| 5 | Look forward to the time when you rocking horse is all finished and you will be able to stand back and watch your children or grandchildren happily riding this beautiful heirloom that you have created , and you will be able to say with pride and satisfaction , ‘ I made that . ’ |
| 6 | ( Just occasionally I may be able to say with reasonable confidence that a particular advertisement or campaign is quantifiably better at generating sales than another . |
| 7 | The forensic serologist will be able to say with certainty where the blood came from , even with a dried stain . |
| 8 | When we are dealing with the structure plan for which there is no local plan in force , we have a new problem which is that , owing to the diagrammatic nature of the plans , no one will be able to say with certainty that this does or does not affect the claimant 's property , but that nevertheless , because of that very uncertainty , a wider number of properties may be affected . |
| 9 | People would be able to say with some , er , degree of certainty , how long the research is going to take , but I think one of the problems at the moment is , you ca n't always say . |
| 10 | It could be that a firm may only be able to say with any certainty that it expects the rate of return on an investment project to be within a particular range , say 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 11 | — John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education ‘ Every Conservative candidate will be able to say on every voter 's doorstep , ‘ I can save you money ’ . |
| 12 | Epictetus said , ‘ This is what I wish to be engaged in when death finds me , so that I may be able to say to God , ‘ Have I in any respect transgressed Thy commands ? |
| 13 | By combining these two exercises , teachers are in a much better position to be able to say to the demanders , whether parents , government or somewhere in between : ‘ Given the resources of time , material , support and expertise , we are able to do A , B and C or C , D and E , but not A , B and E , let alone all five . |
| 14 | Because Derek will be able to say to me Look , do a letter to here . |
| 15 | If there are any problems then we should be able to say to ourselves , well let's go and have look at the project quality plan , what 's that tell us ? |
| 16 | whether the colleges will be able to say to us we have got |
| 17 | Yes , we 're in competition and we want to be able to say to our members do n't go to that trade union because they will put you all in one lump , go to this one because we 've got sections , because we look at our members with individual needs and please support this motion . |
| 18 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 19 | The hour may come within weeks , within days , to-morrow ; and then , before I take the field with the fate of Wales in my hands , I have a need of her and a use for her here ; and then I shall be loosed from this dumbness that binds my tongue , and I shall be able to say to her what needs to be said , and what as yet I can not say . |
| 20 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 21 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | About the only thing you would n't be able to say about it is that it ‘ washes whiter ’ . |
| 24 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 25 | By way of variation , in October 1943 , his secretary wrote to say that he was away on business , and that it was ‘ quite probable ’ that he would not be able to attend on that occasion . |
| 26 | To gain attention and recognition we need to be able to attend to and recognise others . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Please state which regional final you would be able to attend from the list below , and provide a second option in case it is not possible to accommodate you at your first choice of location . |
| 29 | President Gorbachev will now be able to push through some of the most unpalatable parts of a programme to take the country into a new era governed by market forces . |
| 30 | Alternatively , for around £2,000 , existing Deskpro/M users will be able to upgrade to Pentium . |