Example sentences of "[noun] need [prep] be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | The retailer needs to be able to plan how she uses her money , to work out how much profit she needs to make to stay in business — and to grow . |
| 2 | This presents a major obstacle , in so far as the would-be acquirer needs to be able to calculate the attitude of a target company 's owners to an offer , given that the management will often be uncooperative . |
| 3 | A French company wishing to build a plant in West Germany needs to be able to turn its French francs into D-marks . |
| 4 | The first decision to be faced is whether the institution needs to be able to make its own recordings . |
| 5 | It introduces inflexibility and excessive bureaucratic controls at a time when the industry needs to be able to develop along economic lines . |
| 6 | A horse needs to be able to use its different senses of sight , hearing , touch , smell , and taste , and to perceive change and variety . |
| 7 | Indeed , a good strong stock needs to be able to get rid of all it has to push into the scion , without any hindrance . |
| 8 | The kids need to be able to learn how to say no . |
| 9 | Units need to be able to offer the highest standards of hygiene while maintaining a homely atmosphere . |
| 10 | Within their own scale of operations all animals need to be able to impose an appearance of order upon their environment ; they need to be able to discriminate favourable ( normal ) from unfavourable ( abnormal ) situations . |
| 11 | Organizations need to be able to attribute credit and responsibility just as historians do . |
| 12 | Not only should the parent feel able to express upset at the child 's behaviour but equally the child needs to be able to do this towards the parent . |
| 13 | The wicketkeeper needs to be able to bat , and for all Alan Knott 's innovative ability and competitiveness , the vote has to go to Les Ames . |
| 14 | Under these circumstances the parents need to be able to take over from each other so that it is the child who tires and not the parents . |
| 15 | Furthermore , whilst the audited accounts may provide comfort in relation to the overall financial position of the Business , the Purchaser needs to be able to rely on the past records of the business for all sorts of other reasons — e.g. past levels of turnover , proper recording of information , etc . |
| 16 | Self-monitoring in a busy classroom is not easy , yet the need for training in the skills of classroom discourse is evident ; as part of that training the trainee or serving teacher needs to be able to objectify his or her modes of discourse in order to begin to improve them . |
| 17 | An effective history teacher needs to be able to spot the potential of particular pieces of evidence and select carefully for a particular task . |
| 18 | We are offering an enterprise-wide solution , so the product needs to be able to access a variety of ledgers . |
| 19 | With this kind of warfare going on between nests , the ants need to be able to distinguish their own nestmates from members of other nests . |
| 20 | Counselling requires varied skills , and counsellors need to be able to empathise with people ( which is not the same as sympathising — empathy requires seeing the world from another person 's point of view without judgement or criticism ) and to accept their clients by suspending judgement so that people feel valued . |
| 21 | A small town fire crew needs to be able to turn out within 8 to 10 minutes . |
| 22 | Now any adequate account of self needs to be able , I think , to encompass and try to make intelligible the ways in which women and men experience themselves . |
| 23 | It must certainly be true , however , that any Company competing in product markets requiring significant technological inputs to product development needs to be able to set aside funds for this purpose . |
| 24 | Where Newco and management are connected under s839(7) , the managers need to show that no benefit has been conferred on them indirectly by virtue of Newco 's acquisition of Target , and accordingly the managers need to be able to demonstrate that the price paid by Newco for Target constitutes market value . |
| 25 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 26 | So far as we have been able to see people need to be able to identify those social situations which are distinct in their culture . |
| 27 | Though the principles of representative government are important to pluralists as embodying equal rights to vote , express opinion and associate with like-minded people for political ends , the individual citizen of a democracy needs to be able to join with others before an interest can be effectively mobilized . |
| 28 | The two sets of characters needed to be able to confide in one another . |
| 29 | Only 5ft 4in ( 1.6m ) tall , Mary needed to be able to reach all the important controls from the steering cockpit . |
| 30 | This is part of the Catering & Allied philosophy of ‘ link manning ’ — people need to be able to pick up their colleagues ' responsibilities if necessary , so knowledge gets passed on . |