Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had chosen to join the 10th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , and the preliminary training evenings were geared towards physical exercise , getting us ready for ‘ P Company ’ , the tests which every aspiring paratrooper , territorial or regular , had to pass before being able to wear his coveted maroon beret . |
| 2 | Much of the expertise of a museum curator or an archaeologist lies in being able to offer a reasonably accurate identification of an object just on the basis of looking at it and handling it . |
| 3 | In moral education , the young person needs to acquire sufficient knowledge and understanding to be able to make a mature , personal response to Jesus ' invitation in relation to judgements of moral value . |
| 4 | You would therefore need to be able to buy the Metro for about £5,200 cash or less to be better off financing the deal yourself . |
| 5 | In 1977 , for example , the TUC told the Windscale Inquiry that ‘ the nuclear industry will need to be able to make a sizeable contribution to Britain 's energy supplies by the late 1990s ’ . |
| 6 | As members of smaller groups within a larger community — a trade union or residents ' association , for instance — they will need to be able to function collectively through discussion , for example to represent or protect their interests . |
| 7 | To understand them and their arguments you will need to be able to challenge their statistics in an informed way . |
| 8 | The practice would need to be able to accurately check the blood glucose , weigh the patient , examine the eyes and record the results . |
| 9 | Governors and teachers do not need to be able to work these out , but they should be able to understand how the figures were reached and what such a budgetary report means . |
| 10 | While the exercises in this book are quite small and it is possible to get around using the simple cursor movements alone , you should practise using the faster ones because in longer documents you will need to be able to use all the short cuts you can . |
| 11 | Therefore , managers in the early 1990s will need to be able to handle the ambiguities of competing value systems . |
| 12 | You will need to be able to complete a dressage test calmly and obediently if you want to event . |
| 13 | A blank cassette — and maybe a spare — is an obvious essential ( a ) , and you will certainly need to be able to recharge your camcorder battery as you go along , so do n't forget to take your battery charger ( b ) with you . |
| 14 | You will need to be able to work for long periods with a high degree of accuracy , and have really good eyesight . |
| 15 | The unfashionability of football kits is a fashionable topic but you do n't need to be able to recite the birthdays and middle names of every member of the England '66 squad to have an opinion . |
| 16 | Management will therefore need to be able to have sufficient information to present an accurate account to the media . |
| 17 | Rather , we would need to be able to trace the development of our naive physical concepts , distinguishing their earlier , sensorimotor , forms from the later , linguistically-informed , semantic contents and inferential patterns . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Patrick will join us in the organization , but for him to be able to work effectively , he will need to be able to move around freely . " |
| 20 | He may need to be able to use apparatus , and generally speaking science teachers are accustomed to explaining necessary points about its use and keeping a close watch on safety . |
| 21 | Now , in terms of functional group isomerism I 'm gon na take a slightly different example right let's take this one here first of all I 've now started to do what the examiners will do now I 'll make them identical structures there somewhere and you really do need to be able to name them in order to see where they are or if they are . |
| 22 | Of course , to write this sort of book you will need to be able to put yourself into such a central character 's mind . |
| 23 | You will need a steady supply of up-to-date programmes if you are to exploit their topical nature and you will need to be able to preview regularly to select what is appropriate . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , all teachers will need to be able to understand how language operates , if we are to avoid the widespread condemnation of ‘ improper ’ speech , beliefs that Indians speak ‘ Indian ’ ( Linguistic Minorities Project , 1985 : 322 ) , and misunderstandings of the structure of English ( Bloor , 1986 ) , etc . |
| 25 | It has now been recognised that often the company , and indeed the regulatory authorities and the public , may need to be able to find out who the beneficial owners are and other sections , dealt with later , seek to enable them to find out . |
| 26 | In relation to professionals and other relevant individuals , the practitioner will need to be able to assimilate the different professional perspectives , negotiate around those perspectives if necessary , and co-ordinate the communications received from a variety of sources . |
| 27 | I will need to be able to go anywhere without being stopped , ’ said Huy at last . |
| 28 | ( also known as education social worker ) Education welfare officers liaise with Social Services Departments and are responsible for the general well-being of school children , not only ensuring that they attend school regularly but also dealing with grants , allowances and services which they may need to be able to attend ( e.g. clothing , transport , free school meals ) . |
| 29 | We do not even need to be able to measure the somewhat esoteric concept of surplus , since it is always a one-way reduction . |
| 30 | Fourthly , each would need to be able to produce acts conditional on the other producing acts , thus securing the chains of interdependent acts typical of interaction . |