Example sentences of "[be] [prep] be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , it is of great importance to discover more about how the listener 's brain identifies what it receives from the ear ( stages 4 and 5 ) ; many experiments have shown how sensitive we are to very slight acoustic differences and how flexible we are in being able to adjust to very different speakers . |
| 2 | How valuable it would be to be able to reconstruct what the site looked like while excavation was in progress . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means . |
| 4 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 5 | According to Dr Moore , that is unrealistic if computers are to be able to recognise thousands of words . |
| 6 | Clamp ( 1980 ) sets out eight objectives which may be achieved by learning through incidents , and these briefly are to be able to : |
| 7 | But if we are to be able to talk to our children about this at all , then we must have some understanding of the choices and risks they face . |
| 8 | All pupils should pursue the programmes of study and attainment targets if they are to be able to participate fully in adult life and employment . |
| 9 | If returners are to be able to comply with the desired outcomes as defined by the UKCC 's guidelines then the course offered would have to satisfy requirements set out in Table 4.2 . |
| 10 | The net effect of these injunctions ( as well as others we shall meet later ) is to ensure that the natural inability of human beings to respond ‘ perfectly ’ to all situations , however demanding or paradoxical , is construed by those human beings as clear evidence of personal inadequacy : they lack the ability , resilience or ready-made savoir-faire that they somehow ought to have , in limitless supply , if they are to be able to look themselves in the eye in the bathroom mirror each morning . |
| 11 | It will be needed , above all , if we are to be able to read the historical record . |
| 12 | The more distant one of those later groups is , the more likely we are to be able to construct a counter-example ; as is revealed in our own example where = you are a brain in a vat ; |
| 13 | If children are to be able to seek out opportunities for collaboration themselves , they need to understand the purposes which collaboration can serve . |
| 14 | The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre , the more likely we are to be able to identify norms . |
| 15 | We want Annabelle and Steven to enjoy the things we never had , not to take them for granted , but to appreciate how lucky they are to be able to celebrate like this surrounded by their families and friends . |
| 16 | With regard to " temporality " ( in the sense in which this concept was used above ) , this can not be regarded as a sufficient condition of particularity so long as it is not shown that temporality alone ( in the indicated sense ) ensures numerical identity of particulars ; and if we are to be able to justifiably claim that it is a necessary condition of particularity , we must first show that there can be no extra-temporal particulars . " |
| 17 | For evidently we need both reflexive and non-reflexive polyadic predicates , as well as monadic predicates , if we are to be able to describe at all adequately the world around us . |
| 18 | But , as we saw , this will not work ; for if we are to be able to make significant identifying references to qualities , we need a distinction between qualities and their existentially unique instances , and this raises the problem of determining the precise ontological status of such instances : i.e. what such instances are , and how they can be identified and distinguished from each other . |
| 19 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 20 | Accountants , too , need to understand these criteria if they are to be able to help management reach decisions about product effectiveness . |
| 21 | In other words , airlines are to be able to compete freely , charging fares they judge to be appropriate , so long as these are not predatory and the result of cross-subsidisation . |
| 22 | If we are to be able to select the most appropriate selling opportunities , the information on our database must be as comprehensive as possible . |
| 23 | We shall now see that in order to account for changes in the modern world this evolutionary background of the ego and superego is by no means irrelevant ; on the contrary , we must take it very seriously if we are to be able to understand what is going on around us . |
| 24 | Now this means that erm putting it in its simplest way that for any of the districts in North Yorkshire and for Harrogate and if I may presume to say so in Selby in particular where the need is greatest , the local authorities must have the ability to designate what is provocatively called green field land , if they so wish in their local plan , proper consultations and strategic policies , they must have that freedom to do that if they are to be able to offer in their district land which will prove attractive to erm employment generating uses . |
| 25 | In turn , if we are to be able to pay for these commodities , we must export . |
| 26 | There was no consensus amongst the Serbs as to the form of government they wanted if they were to be able to force recognition of Serbian autonomy from the sultan . |
| 27 | It is through being able to see simultaneously both backwards as well as forwards , without the need to glance over his shoulder . |
| 28 | The earlier you discuss a potential or actual problem with the lender , the more chance there is of being able to arrange matters satisfactorily . |
| 29 | The earlier you discuss a potential or actual problem with the lender , the more chance there is of being able to arrange matters satisfactorily . |
| 30 | The thrill , and perhaps the claim to posterity , is in being able to bestow a name on a rose that is different to anything seen before . |