Example sentences of "us to be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I would like is for us to be able to poke about a bit ; see if there are any angles in the Livesey case that might lead back to this girl . |
| 2 | 2 In the Space section it would help us to be able to illustrate scene 14 in some way . |
| 3 | When I got there he was pleased to see me ; he seemed to expect us to be able to do something about his leg but of course we could n't . |
| 4 | Most other components simply are not offered in tested packs , or if they are , the cost is likely to be too high for most of us to be able to give them serious consideration . |
| 5 | It should be noted that this grouping of sixth-century metalwork includes nearly all of the known examples , and only raises again the question of how similar items have to be for us to be able to distinguish the skills of one workshop as opposed to the learned traditions of a single society . |
| 6 | Enough has survived for us to be able to trace the developing skills and aspirations of some groups of craft workers , but we can be sure that there were many crafts and other activities in the city of Knossos which have left no archaeological trace . |
| 7 | Are these sufficiently closely defined for us to be able to apply them to particular cases ? |
| 8 | The survey upon which these findings were based did not provide sufficient details of personal characteristics for us to be able to take account of the influences certain of these might have exerted . |
| 9 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 10 | It 's enough for us to be able to mourn him . ’ |
| 11 | Second , any model that described the whole universe in detail would be much too complicated mathematically for us to be able to calculate exact predictions . |
| 12 | And if you go for the land reform , if you promise the peasants the land erm and you 're moving towards a position of , y you , you you 're still thinking exactly what your policy is but under that might come a a realization that absolute egalitarianism is the best way of doing this , look th th there is enough land for us to be able to do this , this is the simplest process which will guarantee for middle peasant status , it will bring their , their living standards up to acceptable levels . |
| 13 | it 's going to be very difficult is n't it , for us to be able to achieve all of those aims at the same time . |
| 14 | Each requires us to be able to produce a ( pseudo- ) random value , u k equally likely to lie anywhere in the range 0 to 1 . |