Example sentences of "[vb base] to be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some men appear to be able to attain " minor " or " major " orgasm , the former allowing continuation of intercourse for longer periods . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It happens with deer , where female deer appear to be able to manipulate the sex ratio to their own advantage . |
| 7 | For £200 , I expect to be able to buy something that 's good-looking and well-designed . |
| 8 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |
| 9 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |
| 10 | Because most of the closest-fought states are in the Eastern Time zone , American TV networks expect to be able to forecast the final result from 2am on Wednesday . |
| 11 | ‘ Most of our customers are second time buyers who know what they want and expect to be able to just walk in and take it off the shelf like a can of beans , ’ he says . |
| 12 | That bid is at the final stage of its examination and I expect to be able to make an announcement soon . |
| 13 | I expect to be able to report to the House soon the results of the review of the first year of the new European Standing Committees after the Select Committee on Procedure has reported . |
| 14 | Turning now to his own responsibilities , when does the Leader of the House expect to be able to make a statement on expanding the provisions of communication between Members of this House and the institutions of the European Community ? |
| 15 | ‘ Those who have had their homes repossessed expect to be able to get a council house easily , ’ she added . |
| 16 | ‘ Drivers want to be able to put the same smart card in a holder ( or a different card in the same holder ) whether driving in the Netherlands or on a French autoroute , ’ says Ian Catling , a member of an EC group which is ensuring that electronic Babel is avoided on the roads . |
| 17 | The World Index Trust is designed for investors who want to be able to move between overseas markets but do not want to choose particular stocks to buy . |
| 18 | I want to be able to write to you again — soon — and tell you how our projects are developing — not just in Vietnam , but across the world . |
| 19 | Mr Bush 's men are trying to establish the administration 's authority : they want to be able to decide freely where the money goes and in what form ; and they want to be allowed to shift it at will from one country , and one programme , to another . |
| 20 | ‘ I just want to be able to do what I like . ’ |
| 21 | You want the weight to stay off and you also want to be able to eat a reasonable amount of food after the diet without putting on weight . |
| 22 | I want to be able to secure the white eight spokes onto my SWB IIA , but can not find a Net of locking wheel nuts to fit . |
| 23 | Effective managers usually want to be able to give an answer to it . |
| 24 | I just want to be able to say I 've done it , that 's all . ’ |
| 25 | But they also , if circumstances change , want to be able to escape from that commitment should it prove intolerable . |
| 26 | We want to be able to challenge the whole idea of housework being women 's work , just as we want to challenge whether engineering or surgery or being a crane driver or a football referee , whether any of those are men 's jobs . |
| 27 | You want to be able at any time to get into the box , perhaps to change the battery , and you want to be able to flip the lid ( the field ) back as though it was on a hinge in order to do this . |
| 28 | You want to be able at any time to get into the box , perhaps to change the battery , and you want to be able to flip the lid ( the field ) back as though it was on a hinge in order to do this . |
| 29 | I 've got to admit , I want to be able to do that too ! ’ |
| 30 | I heard a piece by Sibelius and I thought , ‘ This is wonderful — I want to be able to have this skill . ’ |