Example sentences of "able [prep] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was not himself able to be of much help . |
| 2 | And this is where I think you may be able to be of service to me . ’ |
| 3 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
| 4 | Or I would n't be able to be on the street , |
| 5 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 6 | At first I could not devote so much time to the orchestra but by the early 1960s I was coming to a position where I was able to be with the orchestra a very great deal , working for eight or ten days at a time on concerts , records , and films . |
| 7 | ‘ I may not be able to be with her . ’ |
| 8 | Oswine 's power was clearly already weakening by January 690 for he refers in the grant to Abbess Aebbe at that time to those Kentish nobles who were able to be with him . |
| 9 | Speaking of young men , erm I have a letter here from Mr John who is our local M P , who is not able to be with us today , but erm he in fact would not of , I think , been born at that stage , but erm he did write to me a little letter I 've got this morning from the House of Commons in London and he asked me to read it out . |
| 10 | We are glad that is able to be with us twice this season , and that has agreed to continue her regular music lessons for the early birds as well as taking a number of sessions. , and make up the rest of the team and we all look forward to working with you . |
| 11 | ‘ Stay with me , ’ Maggie said without any thought at all , just with a great desire to be able to be near him . |
| 12 | We are able to be alongside them in their pains and their distresses . |
| 13 | After Easter and many other alarms , when none of the girls was able to be in Great Meadow , Rose had her sister buy a brown Franciscan habit in the town . |
| 14 | I 'm able to be in the refuge because I choose to be — nothing is keeping me here . |
| 15 | As you will see from the enclosed letter , it would be good if you were able to be in touch with Mawe de la Fuent . |
| 16 | What we are really talking about of course is entitlement — sharing the privileges of being able to be in touch with other cultures . |
| 17 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 18 | Yeah although the tape 's on I 'll still say I 'll still say I mean there are people within the company as within any company I 'm sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 19 | You have a soul locked in — able to be in touch with the outside world , but with no way of communicating with it . ’ |