Example sentences of "be able [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trainees should be able to lay out a sequence of responses to this simple situation of Katy 's . |
| 2 | According to Wittgenstein , this initial belief is as incoherent as the solipsist 's claim to be able to set up a private language , since it relies upon too great a gap between our behaviour ( including linguistic behaviour ) and internal mental life . |
| 3 | I do not intend to list all the normal things Excel can do — just take it for granted that you will be able to set up a spreadsheet to calculate whatever you want to — but I want to concentrate on some of the features that will certainly save time , effort , and head scratching . |
| 4 | ‘ In South Africa I would not be able to set up a company like I will be doing for Cummins in Russia . |
| 5 | Such a weapon would be particularly useful when dealing with a school , because the myriad moving bodies produce too confusing an echolocation picture for the dolphin to be able to single out a victim . |
| 6 | unemployed people will not be able to turn down a job offer on the basis of the pay being too low ; |
| 7 | And secondly , we 'll be able to sort out a reasonable time for getting her home . |
| 8 | Given their manpower resources , it is not reasonable to expect the police to be able to enforce rigorously a large-scale , blanket speed limit in residential areas and it is apparent that they do not try to do so . |
| 9 | Should you be successful , you will be able to pick up a bounty on each of them . ’ |
| 10 | You ca n't contact the ‘ Bears ’ direct on that rig but they might just be able to pick up an emergency signal . |
| 11 | But if you are n't prepared to wade through acres of news and advertising print , your financial adviser should be able to pick out a few plans that suit your needs . |
| 12 | You should be able to do quite a bit of useful contemplation about whether you actually love this boyfriend of yours . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Serrano was told by the electoral authorities that he would not be able to hold either a plebiscite or elections for a new Congress , which he had hoped to do . |
| 14 | To invest such works a besieging army would have to be at least 700,000 strong , and London would be able to hold out a very long time , as the example of Paris showed ; the Prussian siege there lasted five months , and had things gone a little differently Paris might have been relieved . |
| 15 | Thus the Earl of Nottingham , Secretary of State from 1702 to 1704 , and a chief advocate of such a strategy , wrote in 1703 that " we shall never have any decisive success nor be able to hold out a war against France but by making it a sea War , and such a sea War as accompanies and supports attempts on land " . |
| 16 | Kitty never seemed to be able to hold down a job for more than a week at a time , but somehow she was still better dressed than any of us . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll be able to go out a bit while I 'm on this early shift , ’ she said consolingly . |
| 18 | The student has to be able to take yet a further step , and to be able to take up stances , hold to particular theories , or simply to act . |
| 19 | Any manufacturing jeweller would honestly be able to take over a consignment of several hundred , especially if he were offered a 10 or 15 per cent discount on market price . |
| 20 | In the market , a person who can perform certain activities more efficiently may be able to take over a firm and capture the rent accruing as a result of greater efficiency . |
| 21 | and then they can expect them at the end of like x amount of time to be able to take over a department , then when it falls apart they 're gon na be the one to take it . |
| 22 | The army are faxing me regimental lists , so we might be able to track down a contemporary or two . ’ |
| 23 | I understand that this scheme will be able to light up a town of about 30,000 people , just as my hon. Friend can today , almost single-handedly , light up her constituency . |
| 24 | In each case the minister may be able to back up a recommendation with indirect weapons : by control over loans and other powers to permit or limit activities , by co-operation or its refusal in situations in which joint central local action is necessary . |
| 25 | By 1990 , 1 understand , everyone in France with a phone will be able to call up a display of any number he wants , in just 15 seconds . |
| 26 | The most obvious possibility is to be able to call up a video window on the screen which can deliver a helpline operator 's face and words and enable you to resolve your problem . |
| 27 | Apparently no known tank force could break through a six-lane snarl-up , so the authorities have to be able to whistle up a traffic jam within minutes . |
| 28 | Once you begin to understand some of the antecedent events that control your own eating behaviour you will be able to plan out a positive approach , by working out those antecedent events most likely to lead to success . |
| 29 | According to US press reports , the Microsoft version will be able to install over a ‘ Stacked ’ hard disk . |
| 30 | The officer must indeed be prepared to sustain his attempts at persuasiveness over a long period of time , a matter which can pose problems , for he must be able to sense when a less conciliatory performance is warranted and a show of force , however discreet , would be appropriate . |