Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] being able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the expertise of a museum curator or an archaeologist lies in being able to offer a reasonably accurate identification of an object just on the basis of looking at it and handling it . |
| 2 | Our business and personal lives depend upon being able to use words successfully . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think the burglars in this area need encouraging by being able to purchase cheap tools . |
| 4 | By the third day of the war , Pentagon officials boasted of being able to drop as much as 5,000 tons of bombs a day on Baghdad — double the amount dropped by Allies during the 1945 bombing of Dresden . |
| 5 | In the primary attachment to the mother , infants experience some of the most intense physical and emotional experiences of life — the satisfaction of a full belly , the warmth of bodily closeness , the security based on being able to trust other people , the survival of hatred and release from fear . |
| 6 | In a previous book , King of the Confessors , Hoving admits to being able to ‘ lie convincingly without any hesitation ’ . |
| 7 | Over and above the residual discomfort of managers used to being able to see bodies in seats around the office and to address them face-to-face , the teleworkers themselves can feel similarly cut off . |
| 8 | But even the happiness Mother and Father felt at being able to live together under the same roof at last was tinged with sadness , because they both liked Stainmore very much and would have preferred to stay in the area . |
| 9 | Another suggestion , favoured by Dr Roper on the basis of the radio-tracking results , is that in a large sett badgers benefit from being able to move from one sleeping chamber to another to escape fleas . |
| 10 | Other possible explanations are that badgers simply like large setts because they are better ventilated , and that subordinate females benefit from being able to breed in remote outlying chambers , well out of the way of dominant breeding females . |
| 11 | A company 's success depends on being able to provide greater value to customers than rival companies can . |
| 12 | The special treatment that concessions represent removes from older people the dignity associated with being able to function independently without the need for subsidy or support . |
| 13 | Roosevelt telegraphed again that British insistence on traffic only between certain points was not realistic , and that the economic viability of services depended on being able to pick up intermediate traffic . |
| 14 | Yet to feel " at home " in that country depended on being able to leave it . |
| 15 | Efficient emergency treatment relies upon being able to stem the blood loss with a tourniquet around the foot . |
| 16 | So that much of ICI 's opportunity comes from being able to bring together its manufacturing skills in each area to get into less competitive markets . |
| 17 | In America of course the privilege runs to being able to shoot on sight . |
| 18 | ‘ Many nurses may find the task of entering the script onto the GP 's computer is delegated to them so the time saved from being able to prescribe starts to disappear . ’ |
| 19 | Interpretations depend upon being able to link the background measures ( class , size , socio-economic group etc. ) to those of performance . |