Example sentences of "on [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | A company 's success depends on being able to provide greater value to customers than rival companies can . |
| 2 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 3 | On being able to stand up to the USSR , Thatcher scored 80 per cent in the precampaign week , easing to 79 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 4 | Just imagine the abuse with which they would be showered by people who would tell them : ‘ Since it is easily possible for the economy to grow at 4 , 5 , 6 per cent or any other figure you like , the public are being cheated of the growth of public expenditure which they have a right to enjoy by this niggardly Government which is only counting on being able safely to increase public expenditure at a rate of 2 to 2and1/2 ; per cent . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In later years , by contrast , he came to speak in public less and less frequently , despite being repeatedly urged to do so by Goebbels and others , evidently realizing only too well how closely the effectiveness of his rhetoric was dependent on being able to report success and to hold out hope for an end to the war . |
| 7 | David 's vision of turning the Tambopata Reserve Project into the most important tropical university in the world and a model of development for the protection of the rainforest in Peru , if not the world , hinged on being able to persuade government and local interests that their benefits did not lie with the destruction of the forest . |
| 8 | If you are feeling particularly adventurous you can try approaching on port tack , gambling on being able to find a gap to tack into . |
| 9 | For example , as parents we may react with undue stress to a teenager who flouts our authority , because we are afraid of losing our self-esteem which is dependent on being able to control our family . |
| 10 | In particular , as outlined below , one area of potential dissension and difficulty in the modern small private company is the very fact that some of the relevant legal rules and remedies are based on being able to distinguish the capacity in which a particular individual may be acting at a given time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Although all my aids had to work in unison , I had to really concentrate on being able to work them independently of each other . |
| 13 | Until recently it has tended to be a middle-class , if not an upper-class , home where the father prides himself on being able to provide well for his family , and the mother prides herself on being a good ‘ homemaker ’ who runs the establishment with precise efficiency , giving careful consideration to the basic ( i.e. material ) needs of all the occupants . |
| 14 | Ever since Kissinger and Heath were flattered by Zhou Enlai , Western politicians have prided themselves on being able to ameliorate Chinese policy through private persuasion . |
| 15 | I counted on being able to dodge my way on to the ferry and I did n't think I would need any money once I got to France . |
| 16 | However , this neat division of labour is predicated on being able to distinguish traded and non-traded goods in a precise fashion . |
| 17 | The Gulf conflict is particularly ill-suited to the traditional left culture of opposition , which relies on being able to mark out ideological ground in antagonism , to the prevailing consensus and then trying to win converts . |
| 18 | Their attention is on learning what they are told they have to learn , on being able to do the questions . |
| 19 | In truth , she 'd never reacted to male advances with such venom before — in fact she 'd always prided herself on being able to stay cool . |
| 20 | Bar owners will usually insist on being able to sell Guinness because of its popularity in Indonesia and generally the brewers will agree — but only if no Guinness promotional activity takes place in the bar . |
| 21 | Yet to feel " at home " in that country depended on being able to leave it . |
| 22 | Came out without anything inside me and then had this ghastly experience of not , I was , I was banking on being able to get a hot cup of coffee on the train . |