Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] be able " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ah well I 'd like to be able to pay for what I want too you know . |
| 32 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 33 | Yeah I 'd love to be able |
| 34 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 35 | For example , we would want to be able to recover bracelet from the input bwacelet . |
| 36 | Furthermore , on other occasions the acoustic-phonetic information might be misleading ; we would want to be able to recover from or some other minor mispronunciation . |
| 37 | The practice would need to be able to accurately check the blood glucose , weigh the patient , examine the eyes and record the results . |
| 38 | Rather , we would need to be able to trace the development of our naive physical concepts , distinguishing their earlier , sensorimotor , forms from the later , linguistically-informed , semantic contents and inferential patterns . |
| 39 | Fourthly , each would need to be able to produce acts conditional on the other producing acts , thus securing the chains of interdependent acts typical of interaction . |
| 40 | A lay person would appear to be able to do little in this direction , except perhaps check with local trade associations . |
| 41 | Of the predators , fruit pigeons were abundant on figs whose seeds are inviable thereafter , but they avoided , as in the Trinidad example , the large fruits , such as those of Dysoxylum ( Meliaceae ) , which they would appear to be able to deal with ( these fruits are dispersed by hornbills ) . |
| 42 | It is in fact a moot point whether one would expect to be able to classify all flows as either turbulent or non-turbulent — or , equivalently , whether during transition to turbulence one should be able to designate the point at which turbulent motion begins . |
| 43 | In any future release , two welcome refinements would be the simultaneous inclusion of source and load resistances in divider computations ; and audio and communications designers would like to be able to toggle divider ratios and percent error , to read out in dB voltage ( log20 ) and maybe power ( log10 ) deciBels . |
| 44 | Workers indicated that they would like to be able to take their holidays without being obliged to find a replacement and so have to do double duty before or after their holiday . |
| 45 | Ideally , one would like to be able to specify the particular solution corresponding to an arbitrary set of initial conditions . |
| 46 | I would like to be able to attend a gathering with all the sporting greats who have provided hours and hours of exciting achievements . |
| 47 | I find this very distressing and would like to be able to do more to ease her — but what ? |
| 48 | It seems to me that you 're a bunch of people having fun doing what you do , and I think a lot of people would like to be able to say the same . |
| 49 | I asked Joyce what aspect of her phobia she felt still remained and she said that she would like to be able to go into an open space such as a park , where there were likely to be many more birds around . |
| 50 | Q I would like to be able to make a neckline that looks neat , so that when I do a neckband and fold it to the inside , the actual neckline looks good . |
| 51 | We would like to be able to test whether a feasible solution ( x 1 , . |
| 52 | We would like to be able to recognise whether the BFS corresponding to P1/T2 , ( x 1 , x 2 , x 3 ) = ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) , is efficient . |
| 53 | I would like to be able to buy materials with confidence . |
| 54 | Q I would like to invest in a gravel cleaner that removes detritus without syphoning off water , as I would like to be able to clean the gravel in between regular changes . |
| 55 | They would like to be able to be caring within limits , and without the fear that they might get overwhelmed or taken for a ride . |
| 56 | And I would like to be able to include it . |
| 57 | Ideally one would like to be able to give a general characterisation of suitable sentence types ; unfortunately this is not at present possible . |
| 58 | I would like to be able to find at least an oddment of eroticism . |
| 59 | Ideally , the falsificationist would like to be able to say that the series of theories that constitute the historical evolution of a science is made up of falsifiable theories , each one in the series being more falsifiable than its predecessor . |
| 60 | Others may be perfectly sanguine about such bedfellows , personally , I would like to be able to choose another form of political participation . |