Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has had to be able to turn his hand to almost anything . |
| 2 | And I mean the actual the U K market those in those areas is quite developed and has got quite a reputation but obviously it has got to be able to develop develop and adapt accordingly over time . |
| 3 | She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it . |
| 4 | She 'd hoped to be able to take him out , perhaps for a longish walk through the forest where they could hope for a glimpse of a deer , but at its heaviest the downpour would have called for wetsuits rather than waterproofs . |
| 5 | They were beautiful , and she would have loved to be able to buy one , but even the simplest was far beyond her pocket . |
| 6 | When Merry blows it in the Shire the revolution against sloth and shabbiness and Saruman- ‘ Sharkey ’ is on : no doubt Tolkien would have liked to be able in his own person to do the same . |
| 7 | We would all have liked to be able to eat normally at meals and not to have to hit each other to be first in the breakfast queue . |
| 8 | He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self . |
| 9 | Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner . |
| 10 | I should have liked to be able to look forward to seeing him , but he said he did n't know how the evening would turn out . ’ |
| 11 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 12 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 13 | Describing the boredom of sanger duty , one policeman said , ‘ You 've got to be able to read in this job . |
| 14 | You 've got to be able to talk to people on their own level , you get the best out of people if you treat them a certain way . |
| 15 | You 've got to be able to draw your own conclusions , that this was to an extent a personal vendetta . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But he is a professional and you 've got to be able to walk away from situations . |
| 17 | Personality is so important , you 've got to be able to project a mood . |
| 18 | And you 've got to be able to enjoy something with a bit of speed , excitement and controlled danger . ’ |
| 19 | You 've got to be able |
| 20 | ‘ They 've got to be able to talk to workmen , and get things done during pollutions — find things out . |
| 21 | So you 've got to be able to talk to people . |
| 22 | You 've got to be able to put on a bit of an act |
| 23 | We 've got to be able to set out the implications of the decisions , that may or may not be made , and priorities at a given time . |
| 24 | Now to be agile you 've got to be able to let your body give to gravity and then pull away from gravity , alternating very quickly er that gives you agility . |
| 25 | They 've got to be able to have a break . |
| 26 | I mean , they 've got to be able to quantify their own work besides yourself . |
| 27 | Other companies prefer , you know , they 've got to be able to cope , but you , you , you know , you read various things that are said , and some companies are taking it much , much more seriously , and they 're realising the problems right the way down , right through the whole company that stress is causing , and trying to save money . |
| 28 | Okay , oh no I 've got to be able |
| 29 | No one else in the counry has the capacity for doing that ; you 've got to be able to take the acid away from the power station 24 hours a day , every day of the year . |
| 30 | I suppose you 've got to be able to do maths for most things have n't you ? |