Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 31 | We do need to be able to show forgiveness in all the things that we do but it is n't easy and Jesus devotion to is a great challenge to us as to just how far we can go . |
| 32 | So , sure , we do need rote-learning , we do need to be able to say ‘ Three times four is twelve ’ , we must n't have to work it out on our fingers . |
| 33 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 34 | Geoff Boltwood , 43 year-old psychic healer and medium , is one of a band of men and women worldwide who appear to be able to influence the outcome of disease by tapping into some force or energy which no one yet understands . |
| 35 | Some men appear to be able to attain " minor " or " major " orgasm , the former allowing continuation of intercourse for longer periods . |
| 36 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 37 | Homing pigeons therefore appear to be able to find their way home from any starting point ( provided it does not exceed their maximum flight distance ) , whether or not they have seen their starting point before . |
| 38 | It happens with deer , where female deer appear to be able to manipulate the sex ratio to their own advantage . |
| 39 | This means that actors are expected to be able to control any regional or foreign accent which is natural to them , and deliver a text in what may best be called ‘ the classical style ’ . |
| 40 | If they fail to win 50 per cent this time , they are not expected to be able to rebuild the alliance . |
| 41 | I had thought it would be fun , but I had not expected to be able to rock 'n' roll by the end of the evening . |
| 42 | Workers are expected to be able to deal with a range of tasks and managers to be able to respond to immediate changes in demand . |
| 43 | State the behavioural objectives to be reached at the end of the programme , i.e. what the learner is expected to be able to do . |
| 44 | The lender ( or group of lenders ) is expected to be able to fulfil its obligations under the facility . |
| 45 | The only obligations to transfer economic benefits which should not be taken into account are those which would not be considered in accordance with the going concern concept , that is , those which would only arise on the insolvency of the issuer and , where the issuer is expected to be able to comply with covenants on loan and similar agreements , those which would follow a breach of those covenants . |
| 46 | He is expected to be able to vote in the crucial Maastricht Treaty referendum on Sunday . |
| 47 | ‘ I 'm sure you know ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ that children in the bottom class at school are not expected to be able to read or spell or juggle with numbers when they first arrive . |
| 48 | The three services differ in their ‘ substitutability ’ — that is , the degree to which informal carers ( other household members , relatives , and friends ) are expected to be able to substitute for the services which might be provided by formal carers ( paid professionals ) ( Arber et al. |
| 49 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc is expected to be able to produce up to 600,000 Am486 chips this year , and it could produce some 4m — where Intel Corp is expected to produce some 26m 80486 chips this year and another 31m of the things in 1994 . |
| 50 | Military commissions were in demand in Scotland , and Scottish politicians were expected to be able to satisfy their friends , and with an almost constant 25 per cent of the officer corps drawn from Scotland they clearly succeeded to an astonishing degree in obtaining positions for their countrymen . |
| 51 | Personal computer and workstation manufacturers are expected to be able to use the board to build powerful file servers in the $10,000 price bracket . |
| 52 | Previously it had only been expected to be able to offer a 16-way system in its first go-round . |
| 53 | USL declined to reveal pricing until Univel Inc — joint-owned by USL and Novell Inc — rolls out the end-user shrink-wrapped Unixware version in September-October , but as Unigram reported last week ( UX No 389 ) , OEMs are expected to be able to get it out of the door for around $350 . |
| 54 | One of the initial purposes of the World Bank was to aid post-war reconstruction through the provision of finance , since private capital markets were not expected to be able to cope with the scale of the problem . |
| 55 | The singer is expected to be able to realize and express the emotional and spiritual implications of what he is singing . |
| 56 | Competency-based teacher education — the requiring of teacher education institutions to specify and demonstrate what each teacher is expected to be able to do as a result of his/her training ; |
| 57 | Science is expected to be able to provide a guarantee that a bridge of some design will withstand various stresses and not collapse , but not that all bridges of that design will be satisfactory . |
| 58 | It is acceptable to ask them over for a meal they are not expected to be able to manage without a caring woman . |
| 59 | Students are clearly not expected to be able to question the linguistic judgments of commentators from a position of substantial technical expertise . |
| 60 | In addition to being good teachers able to motivate their students they are also expected to be able to plan and present a scheme of work , write a syllabus with clear aims and objectives . |