Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [prep] be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offspring have to be able to reproduce in their turn and this means that they must have sufficient food and space in which to breed . |
| 2 | So far as we have been able to see people need to be able to identify those social situations which are distinct in their culture . |
| 3 | People want to be able to take it away and study it . |
| 4 | People want to be able to borrow for their homes or businesses in a currency where the interest rate is not exorbitant . |
| 5 | People seem to be able to identify easily with the small local council such as the parish or town council which represents an identifiable local community , such as a village or small town and also with their traditional county , but where areas have neither an identifiable community nor an historical association , problems can develop . |
| 6 | Have you noticed that some people seem to be able to crash their machine and lose all of their work at very regular intervals . |
| 7 | People seem to be able to use prior syntactic and semantic context to select a word even before the discrimination point specified by the phonological description ( Marslen-Wilson & Tyler 1980 , Cole & Jakimik 1980 ) . |
| 8 | We get one or two people who perhaps get er psychosis or paranoia from using it very regularly , but most people seem to be able to use it without too many difficulties , er amphetamines are probably the next most common drug , and that 's probably because it 's manufactured quite locally , er it 's quite easy to make , it 's quite cheap , and it 's very popular , particularly among the younger age group . |
| 9 | Finally , a life history which encourages people to expect to be able to control the sources of suffering and nurturance in their lives should be protective against depression ( Abramson et al. , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | Some of the inquiries amass substantial memoranda and take oral evidence from a wide range of witnesses , ministers , civil servants and other people thought to be able to make useful contributions . |
| 11 | ‘ It is not the resource of money we specifically need , indeed we cut our training programme budget last year by almost half , as we did not have the staff employed to be able to spare enough of them to take part in training sessions . |
| 12 | ‘ We do not have the staff employed to be able to spare enough of them to take part in training sessions ’ … |
| 13 | Magnitudes have been given to only one-tenth , because it is almost impossible for the naked-eye or binocular observer to distinguish differences of less than this ( though I agree that some people claim to be able to do so ; I certainly can not ) . |
| 14 | Although these findings were considered in the context of differential hemispheric activation , they might more parsimoniously be thought to reflect no more than the fact that people wish to be able to look at a blackboard in the middle of the room . |
| 15 | Then , as now , most people wanted to be able to experience the constancy and trust that comes only with faithfulness in a relationship . |
| 16 | More importantly , the company 's development people have to be able to handle simultaneously a wide range of projects , often at different stages ( feasibility , formulation development , process scale-up ) and generally on different major compounds ; it is experience which develops both scientific competence and real commercial awareness . |
| 17 | This is part of the Catering & Allied philosophy of ‘ link manning ’ — people need to be able to pick up their colleagues ' responsibilities if necessary , so knowledge gets passed on . |
| 18 | For this agreement to exist people need to be able to react against those who depart from or break shared values . |
| 19 | Secondly , English contributes to preparation for the adult world : people need to be able to communicate effectively and appropriately in all the widely different social situations in which they find themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ Elements ’ are precise descriptions of what people need to be able to do to be considered competent and have associated with them ‘ performance criteria ’ , which are the key indicators used to judge the individual 's level of performance . |
| 21 | There are other ways people have tried to protect the minority , one is by saying that the , that you can generate a certain set of rights from within the democratic procedure in a different way , that is if democracies flourish people need certain liberties , people need to express their own opinions , people need to be able to do what erm assemble where they need to and so on but more common is the view that democracy should be limited by constitutional would present the minority and this is a view that Mill does n't really defend in representative government although it seems to be very close to his view and on liberty , that is we limit the spear that this government has control over so we ca n't , so in this view erm democracy is given a very limited role . |
| 22 | People need to be able to store their wealth : they want a means of saving . |
| 23 | It happens with deer , where female deer appear to be able to manipulate the sex ratio to their own advantage . |