Example sentences of "[be] [adv] useful [prep] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 2 | For some the spur may be that it would be more useful to be able to read the health and safety rules of the factory in which they work , or to be able to make sense of the words in the mail order catalogue in which they are required to shop . |
| 3 | ‘ It could be very useful to be able to negotiate a discount for cash if you are buying luxury items like a fur coat or an expensive piece of jewellery , ’ was the reaction from Patrick Hastings , a City employee who clearly has his mind on women . |
| 4 | It is obviously useful to be able to look up words that you ca n't remember in a dictionary , but in addition you will find that the more you work on your dictionary , whether it is on a computer or on cards , the more you memorise your vocabulary . |
| 5 | Well my first reason would be that it 's fun but if you want a justification then all I can say is that it is still useful to be able to produce your own programs that do exactly what you want . |
| 6 | The opportunity to display extracts from an online thesaurus in windows is particularly valuable , since it is often useful to be able to view the thesaurus alongside other screen displays in either indexing or searching . |
| 7 | Heading and axis labels are entered during the production of the graph , but it is often useful to be able to add a little extra explanatory text or graphic . |
| 8 | Whilst BBCBASIC(Z80) has a large number of predefined functions ( INT and LEN for example ) it is very useful to be able to define your own to do something special . |