Example sentences of "able to get [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 2 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 3 | Translation technologies are important , however , because other solutions still lack a common development environment and should be able to get to multiple platforms from a single code base . |
| 4 | Translation technologies are important , however , because other options still lack a common development environment and should be able to get to multiple systems from a single code base . |
| 5 | Are you able to get to all your lectures |
| 6 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 7 | They do resonate a little , but you hardly hear them , it 's more to be able to get to some unusual voicings . |
| 8 | We must be able to get at all the different ways in which a lexical item transcribed as is used . |
| 9 | Teacher : Will I be able to get into that box ? |
| 10 | erm , and you 're not likely to be able to get into that line of work again |
| 11 | Erm , Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm sorry my honourable friends have not been able to get into this debate as I would have like to have heard them . |
| 12 | In spite of much travelling and various kinds of work , I have been able to get through some interesting books . |
| 13 | Let's hope he is able to get in some training at his field hospital so that he at least stays in touch with his fitness . |
| 14 | Scotland , suggested my mother , and Syl said at least he would be able to get in some shooting , but I do n't think he ever did anything about it . |