Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to find an adult ( parent , youth leader , etc ) who you trust enough to be able to talk to about all of your friendships . |
| 2 | However , if you are editing in camera , and if your camcorder has a fade-button , it is quite practical to put the fades in as you go if you are organised enough to be able to pick the points at which they should come . |
| 3 | Lexicological units must not only be delimited paradigmatically , that is , within a constant syntactic frame : we want also to be able to say of two occurrences of a lexical form in different syntactic environments whether they are occurrences of the same lexical unit , or two different units . |
| 4 | But we have seen enough to be able to frame a clear answer to the question formulated at the outset of this chapter . |
| 5 | It is good to know that Scottish Amicable has long since grown sufficiently to be able to invest in large properties . |
| 6 | He seemed only to be able to breathe shallowly . |
| 7 | And I , for one , hope soon to be able to arrive there again , to explore more of that spectacular new sky above New Zealand and discover more of that unknown earth beneath my wings . |
| 8 | In the future we hope also to be able to assist further with practical care . |
| 9 | We might try to find such a conceptual unity by making the distinction between sentence-meaning and utterance-meaning , and hope then to be able to equate semantics with the study of sentence-meaning and pragmatics with the study of utterance-meaning . |
| 10 | We ask for a plant 's eye view of life and death in a sward and hope ultimately to be able to collect these reductionist observations into statements about the population , the species or even possibly the community . |
| 11 | If today we can see better than we could at the time the agonized grandeur of the figure of Pope Paul , the one almost ‘ liberal ’ pope of modern times , we can also see how deeply uncertain was the Church he left behind him and — after twelve years — we begin too to be able to assess in its very different character the pontificate of John Paul II . |
| 12 | W well the only issue for you is whether or not you can , you 're in good enough control there to be able to say can you we need to be within the four to six banding , okay ? |
| 13 | As well as sending part of her income home , she had hoped eventually to be able to buy a car . |
| 14 | Answering them also requires the development of experimental models in which to test different hypotheses , and measuring techniques refined enough to be able to detect any postulated changes with learning . |
| 15 | It is essential , but not always obvious , that R&D workers should understand what accountants do sufficiently to be able to communicate with them and on occasion to negotiate change in the detail of how they do it . |
| 16 | It is essential , but not always obvious , that R&D workers should understand what accountants do sufficiently to be able to communicate with them and on occasion to negotiate change in the detail of how they do it . |
| 17 | He hoped greatly to be able to go to Oxford in the autumn ; there should be enough money from a sale to support his mother , his brother and himself till he obtained a degree and could earn his living . |
| 18 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |