Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] able [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm able to be in the refuge because I choose to be — nothing is keeping me here . |
| 2 | That argument would I think be very persuasive if I were able to be confident that the levels of conversion is one which would be an adequate and proper one , it is relatively new , there is nothing wrong with that , it is not apparently been a conversion which has been put into practice , except in the last year because have only started conversion when the Nissan Serena was brought out . |
| 3 | At first I could not devote so much time to the orchestra but by the early 1960s I was coming to a position where I was able to be with the orchestra a very great deal , working for eight or ten days at a time on concerts , records , and films . |
| 4 | I 'm not patting myself on the back — it 's a highly competitive business and one needs selfish , single-minded dedication to succeed , but because female comics were rare in my day , competition was negligible , and I was able to be generous . |
| 5 | That is why I was able to be a soldier ; we keep armies at the ready all the time . ’ |
| 6 | would she be able to is this a full time worker you 've got ? |
| 7 | It would be lovely if many of you were able to be present on that day . |
| 8 | As you will see from the enclosed letter , it would be good if you were able to be in touch with Mawe de la Fuent . |
| 9 | But this she found easier to bear , partly because Mrs. Mounce had so many troubles herself that she was able to be kind back to her , and partly because Mrs. Mounce 's world and Mrs. Mounce 's advice seemed even more remote and unreal than Jannie 's . |
| 10 | We are able to be alongside them in their pains and their distresses . |
| 11 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 12 | ‘ Meaning ’ theists do not claim that on the basis of some special gift from God , ‘ faith ’ or ‘ grace ’ or ‘ revelation ’ , they are able to be assured that God exists whilst being quite unable to communicate the grounds of their assurance to others who lack this divine gift . |
| 13 | ( Men find that they are able to be listed over and over again but that has n't been the experience of Helen Chadwick . ) |
| 14 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
| 15 | They were able to be original in their methods precisely because the Labour movement was weak and did not trap them in the confines of established institutions and procedures . |
| 16 | They had come out of the Hearing without their children , and without knowing how long it might be before they were able to be together again . |
| 17 | By the 1730s they were able to be more active . |
| 18 | There they were able to be independent of the Iranian state authorities — a tradition that has continued since . |
| 19 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 20 | He is able to be painfully honest ( and funny ) about a childhood encounter with a baby raper and the misogyny that resulted from his disastrous teenage sex life — I mean , this guy would be a superb candidate for Radio 4 's In The Psychiatrist 's Chair . |
| 21 | ‘ Today , he was able to be dropped in behind , whereas last year when he ran third in the Tiffany Highflyer , he was drawn on the far side in a 30-runner race and Steve [ Cauthen ] had to ride him handy to the pace , ’ Stoute said . |
| 22 | When he was able to be put in a wheelchair he was strapped upright and wore a collar . |