Example sentences of "be able [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , we take some satisfaction from the knowledge that the involvement of the Board did break the logjam at the earlier stage of this project , and we 're able to report that the Shetland Island Council Charitable Trust has recognized the work of the done by the Board in its final settlement of its account with us . |
| 2 | From the fact that a click ( as opposed to a bang , for example ) is a soft , unresonant ( though abrupt ) noise , we are able to conclude that the door was shut without great force . |
| 3 | ‘ We must run it safely in the short term and long term , ’ he said , ‘ because if people are able to demonstrate that we are causing an environment problem we will be shut down . ’ |
| 4 | Whatever procedure for dismissal is established must be seen as fair and just , so that governing bodies are able to demonstrate that they have acted reasonably . |
| 5 | This is why we are able to report that THE WORLD OF TWIST were involved in a horrifying car crash whilst travelling to a children 's TV Show this very weekend . |
| 6 | WE ARE able to report that contributions are beginning to arrive . |
| 7 | But in practice a certain period of time may elapse before the authorities are able to recognize that a problem exists . |
| 8 | We must endeavour to convince clients that better quality service has to be paid for and to justify the fact that we are able to provide that better quality service . |
| 9 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 10 | Whereas by looking at these exceptions we are able to perceive that the pattern itself is complex and produced by multiple factors . |
| 11 | We are able to show that the mixing angle , hw , that follows from the considerations of Hung and Sakurai is consistent with that experimentally measured without any assumption of unification . |
| 12 | Even if we are able to show that it is not possible for there to be people who feel as we do but have no disposition to behave as we do , or vice versa , the behaviourist way of doing this seems too extreme . |
| 13 | If a number of studies are able to show that occupational type shows consistently stronger correlations with other variables , say voting choice , style of life , level of education or values , this is evidence that the variable occupation is a reasonably effective indicator of the important dimensions embodied in the concept of social class . |
| 14 | An estimated 50% of women in the world who want to stop having children are able to fulfil that wish by these means . |
| 15 | ‘ Meaning ’ theists and ‘ meaning ’ atheists are able to accept that a common definition of ‘ God ’ can be found and the evidence for and against God 's existence duly weighed and argued over . |
| 16 | Through our experience and knowledge derived from sales in the area we are able to ensure that you have the greatest chance of selling at the highest figure . |
| 17 | From a fixture in my possession , I am able to record that through fares from Bishop 's Castle ( assume third class return ) were : — London 45s 8d ; Wolverhampton 8s 6d ; Liverpool 19s 9d ; Whitchurch 6s 10d ; Oxford 11s 3d . |
| 18 | Gillian Kent from Microsoft replies : As the Product Manager for Microsoft Works , I was very concerned to read about the difficulties you 've experienced , I am able to confirm that Microsoft Works 3 will work with an 8086 ( or higher ) processor with 640Kb of memory . |
| 19 | Writing the patrol report back in St David 's Camp , I am able to state that the four ladies in Kyrenia are all well . |
| 20 | Now I am able to say that Barton Willmore has done this work , and it has submitted as part of our submission to the E I P , and in summary what I would say is that I believe that that work demonstrates that the new settlement has to be in the order of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , to begin to achieve the environmental objectives set for the new settlement , and also social objectives which would also be important to the residents of that new settlement . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most glaring example of this problem of non-falsifiability can be found in the manner in which Marxists have been able to argue that state spending is functional for capitalism : increases in state spending are functional since they increase effective demand and legitimacy , yet so are decreases in state spending since they increase the profitability private sector firms . |
| 22 | Even the most myopic Teuton must have been able to see that the politely inquisitive Englishman being entrusted with these confidences had to be an Intelligence man . |
| 23 | I would n't have been able to see that gateway , so I ca n't say whether she was there or not , at five . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Thanks , Wayne , ’ she 'd said , only a little unsteadily , and Wayne had been able to see that questions or even concerned enquiries were definitely not being encouraged . |
| 25 | Maybe their system 's organized differently , but fundamentally the problems are the same and that 's given our people the confidence that they needed because they 've been able to see that people everywhere , it 's not just them isolated in , in , you know , Tory Britain , who are facing these particular difficulties , but issues of privatization for example as the same in France and actually about to get much worse , er but , and , and I think that helped erm our colleagues from France who 've also got a perspective on their struggles and their battles we 've been able to support one another with information about companies working , multi-national companies working on both sides of the Channel . |
| 26 | But Maria has been able to glean that they were forced to flee their home town in northern Bosnia when their house was occupied by enemy Serbs . |
| 27 | Now the object of a handful of inquiries into influence-peddling and the mismanagement of taxpayers ' money , the EPA has at least been able to claim that its science is pure . |
| 28 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 29 | Counsel in support of the application this morning has not been able to say that that claim or allegation has been abandoned . |
| 30 | I can not think of many times when I have been able to say that the Green party is very much on our side in this matter . |