Example sentences of "we shall [be] able " in BNC.

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1 I was excited about the prospect of leaving this area and the boredom of living in a hole in the ground since 6th June ; at last we shall be able to stretch our legs .
2 As we become richer as a country we shall be able to do all these things .
3 With reduced cow numbers ( courtesy of quotas ) and some investment in fencing and sheep handling , I hope we shall be able to cope with our reduced labour force especially as Chrissie is out teaching more and more .
4 A prophetic note was penned , ‘ We have in flower several exotics in vast perfections and I doubt not that we shall be able to manage the most tender plants in ye world with these stoves . ’
5 ‘ We are not perhaps far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation ’ , he said .
6 If we can identify the likely areas , we shall be able to take our photographs to them first . ’
7 ‘ And then we shall be able to move in , ’ said Dimity happily .
8 ‘ Ah , but I think we shall be able to find out now ! ’ said the police-sergeant , who seemed very pleased about something .
9 And if we do so we might call ourselves a nomadic and pastoral people of the transcendent ; and we shall be able to pasture our thoughts like the flocks of the nomads .
10 At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved .
11 Rather than attempt to start our exposition of the cycle from the point of crisis , we shall be able to understand the role of fixed capital if we begin at the point of depression .
12 ‘ Susan and I have never been social butterflies , ’ Breeze explained with dignity , ‘ and I do n't think we shall be able to entertain much .
13 I hope we shall be able to change all that . ’
14 We shall be able to breathe there . ’
15 I am confident that by January 1994 , as the Institute reviews the second year of audit regulation , we shall be able to demonstrate that professional regulation is working and is working well .
16 We shall be able to understand these more clearly if we look more closely at what teachers will be planning for their students
17 At the same time , we shall be able to identify features of style which belong not so much to the subject , as to James 's characteristic way of handling it .
18 " Not in the ground : and the soil 's so light that we shall be able to scratch some shelter easily when we find the right place . "
19 We are moving towards a position in which we shall be able to examine the structure of discourse both in terms of surface relations of form , and underlying relations of functions and acts .
20 I have been assured that the décor will be completed by the end of July , so we shall be able to keep to the schedule we have arranged and open in September .
21 And surely , oh surely , we shall be able to go after Nuadu , and surely the giants are friendly and last night was only a bad dream .
22 ‘ At least we shall be able to say we 've seen the Temple of Quetzalcoatl , the Street of the Dead , and the great Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon . ’
23 Richard added : ‘ The communications boys are doing their sums and I am confident we shall be able to upgrade our E-mail system .
24 With the advance of communication and storage technology , and the proven inadequacy of passive , unhelpful search programs — both of the keyword Boolean type and the browsing , phrase-matching type — it seems likely that in the not-far-distant future the old reference retrieval software will fall into disuse , intermediaries will be redeployed and we shall be able to throw away our front-ends to DIALOG .
25 My father has agreed to let me study at the university , so we shall be able to spend a lot of time together . ’
26 If we contrast Richards 's symbolism with the semiotics of the European structuralists , we shall be able to clarify a fundamental difference of principle between his view of knowledge and experience and theirs .
27 Through increased understanding of the reservoirs and the application of new , advanced technology , we shall be able to enhance production and the recovery factor . ’
28 ‘ By liaising with planners , site engineers and supervisors throughout the terminal , we shall be able to formulate a shift plan for the teams .
29 We hope that we shall be able to make sense prevail .
30 We have every reason to suppose that as soon as there is a reverse in the current downturn in demand , we shall be able to move to even greater success in the home market .
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