Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [be] able [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Stay with me , ’ Maggie said without any thought at all , just with a great desire to be able to be near him .
2 In addition to that , John Prescott was mentioned , and John could not attend the meetings that he does around the country if he did not have the facility to be able to be away from Parliament during times when erm , there are votes that need to be taken .
3 mhm All right , and Frankie Rickford , what would you like people to be able to be empowered to do as a result of listening to three women talk about this issue ?
4 Must an item be able to fulfil all four functions of money to be able to be classed as money ?
5 In most disciplines it is not possible to say exactly when the discipline has achieved sufficient breadth and depth to be able to be considered as a subject in its own right .
6 Yeah although the tape 's on I 'll still say I 'll still say I mean there are people within the company as within any company I 'm sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time .
7 No doubt it would give Marguerite some comfort to be able to be warm and friendly with Russell 's daughter , but it was too big a price to pay .
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