Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |
| 2 | The Captain had no illusions about being able to guess what Demontis knew or did n't know . |
| 3 | And , if she 'd had any illusions about being able to deceive him , his behaviour over the past two days had put paid to that . |
| 4 | I do not think come this weekend either that we will have any worries about being able to last the pace , ’ he asserted . |
| 5 | I 'd even go a step further than the physical necessities of being able to see and hear properly and say that the audience must be in the right mood , too , to receive the message . |
| 6 | What we are really talking about of course is entitlement — sharing the privileges of being able to be in touch with other cultures . |
| 7 | The need for trainers to be able to bring out skills in others is paramount . |
| 8 | Voters will need to know enough about the candidates to be able to judge their relative merits . |
| 9 | According to Marie Raden , police investigator in the Vanersborg district , it requires an astonishing knowledge of animals to be able to approach the horses , and hurt them so badly , without causing them to offer resistance . |
| 10 | This idea may even have developed from the hunting practices and rituals , in which men dressed as animals to be able to approach near enough to use their short-weapons effectively . |
| 11 | The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound . |
| 12 | I have no funds to be able to pay for such material , so people would have to realise that no payment could be made — their only reward would be possibly seeing their work in print . |
| 13 | We urgently need funds to be able to respond effectively and to meet the increased demands being made on us as well as to maintain our existing work . |
| 14 | This is typical of what it involves to speak a language fluently : you can do something consistently and in agreement with other speakers without being able to explain why . |
| 15 | She reported initial agreement on medical evacuations from the city , where some badly wounded people have lain for months without being able to get proper treatment or artificial limbs . |
| 16 | So it 's very very easy in that context for adults to exploit children 's compliance and er it 's easy for kids to be able to not refuse adults ' advances and I suppose that 's why there 's this business about erm y'know it 's it 's not possible for kids to give informed consent to sex . |
| 17 | The fertility counsellor 's main role is to help clients explore the complex issues surrounding possible treatments ; the most important criteria is for patients and clients to be able to make an informed decision about whether to undergo treatment . |
| 18 | The important thing is to make sure that those people that have got those particular skills are given those roles to be able to perform that role perform use those skills . |
| 19 | It 's if you 're on enough books to be able to get supply for every day , if you do n't mind just flitting around . |
| 20 | In order to become a successful fraudster , these skills of being able to present a convincing front and remain calm under pressure have to become almost second nature . |
| 21 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 22 | Others are trying , but IBM is beginning to show signs of being able to achieve it — by USING its culture , not trying fruitlessly to change it . |
| 23 | This outcome , in turn , gave the Labour Party the double advantages of being able to choose the date of the next election and of going into it with the prestige of being the government . |
| 24 | Benny could see her mother sitting there stretching her hand out full of what she had been full of for months now : the huge advantages of being able to come home every night by bus . |
| 25 | However , the advantages of being able to store and retrieve information , merge scanned graphics and logos and apply numerous special graphics effects has allowed bureaux to charge a premium for this sort of service . |
| 26 | The advantages of being able to deploy the micro-budget came from the fact that the case manager was both the person undertaking the assessment , and the direct worker who understood local opportunities . |
| 27 | The advantages of being able to run baits out to any spot within range of your radio signal are obvious even to an objector and to sit on a reservoir bank as electro-man catches pike on free-lined herrings at 200 yards , whilst my weapon hangs limp in the still air waiting for a stiff breeze has been frustrating . |
| 28 | However , the organizational advantages of being able to sample at a regular interval are so considerable that such anxieties are often set aside . |
| 29 | There are types of language use which demand the ability to formulate grammatical , correctly bounded sentences , and being able to exploit the formal sentence grammar is one of the most important elements in being able to communicate in a language . |
| 30 | There are advantages in being able to relate the objects handled to other items on display . |