Example sentences of "[det] [n mass] [modal v] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 2 | Unless the analyst produces a fine-grained phonetic transcription ( which very few people would be able to read fluently ) details of accent and pronunciation are lost . |
| 3 | Few people will be able to complete the route in one go , but luckily it is accessible by public transport at a number of staging points , so it can be split into chunks more manageable in a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 4 | Such people should be able to fight well from a lagging position . |
| 5 | The plan is that none of these people will be able to purchase any of the seven thousand tickets available to England for the first round matches . |
| 6 | ‘ If Mrs Thatcher had resigned out of the blue , then I think more people would be able to remember what they were doing , ’ says Dr Wright . |
| 7 | In this way , I hoped that most people would be able to share in the excitement and feeling of achievement in the remarkable progress that has been made in physics in the last twenty-five years . |
| 8 | The 600 dpi print resolution sets new standards for laser printing ( although whether most people would be able to tell the difference between , say , 400 dpi and 600 dpi is another matter ) . |