Example sentences of "be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will be able to take him and continue into London to pick up Andrew . |
| 2 | At least I 'll be able to have lunch first and not be munching my sandwich in a traffic jam . |
| 3 | If you have not paid tax , then you would not be able to sign a Certificate of Deduction of Tax and ACET would not be able to reclaim tax on the covenant . |
| 4 | If you have not paid tax , then you would not be able to sign a Certificate of Deduction of Tax and ACET would not be able to reclaim tax on the covenant . |
| 5 | This can cause problems because if you do not pay tax then you will not be able to sign the Certificate on form R190(SD) and ACET would not be able to re-claim basic rate on the payment . |
| 6 | This can cause problems because if you do not pay tax then you will not be able to sign the Certificate on form R190(SD) and ACET would not be able to re-claim basic rate on the payment . |
| 7 | He will be able to remind you of beneficiaries you might otherwise forget . |
| 8 | Telephone Janet Sutton during office hours if you would like to know more about us , and how we might be able to help you . |
| 9 | The church should be able to respond to these urgent needs more effectively than any other group and provide clear leadership . |
| 10 | Without their commitment we would not be able to provide such an extensive service . |
| 11 | I hope that you might be able to continue to help our patients in this manner . ’ |
| 12 | It is the churches that provide our volunteers ; without their support we would not be able to provide a service at all . |
| 13 | We hope to be able to increase its reach even further in the coming year . |
| 14 | In the future we hope also to be able to assist further with practical care . |
| 15 | Some latitude can be allowed to serious critics who write for periodicals which go to press a long time before a show is on view ; these critics will not be able to comment on how the exhibition actually looks , as their articles will have been written before the show 's installation . |
| 16 | One incidental advantage of personality pieces is that the magazines in which they appear may be able to afford good-quality colour reproductions . |
| 17 | That power is located in the slums , in the kinship and solidarity which prevail there , in sanctions which welfare workers will not be able to comprehend . |
| 18 | Not everyone who reads the book will be able to sympathise with Justin and Ursula , or to believe that they understand them . |
| 19 | As the years go by , Ursula 's body becomes a bore , and she experiences a fear of ageing : ‘ I shall have to die fairly young , because I wo n't be able to live with the infirmities of old age . ’ |
| 20 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 21 | This means that actors are expected to be able to control any regional or foreign accent which is natural to them , and deliver a text in what may best be called ‘ the classical style ’ . |
| 22 | I think if you do n't go to train and still find your way into the profession some of the essential things you need to know about and be able to do will take that much longer to achieve . |
| 23 | For the Roman catholic social teaching of the day laid down certain things as of natural law which anyone who was reasonable and honest was supposed to be able to recognize . |
| 24 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 25 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 26 | And without language we would not be able to conceive it either . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Once we have landed on Mars we will be able to beam it to the galaxy , he said . |
| 29 | And yet that only should be able to stimulate dreams , create anxiety . |
| 30 | If only we could bring it into focus , he wrote , if only we could concentrate hard enough , we might be able to understand what it is . |