Example sentences of "he [modal v] be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may be able to command as large an audience as anyone , yet he remains one of the least showy of performers , preserving a musical integrity and discrimination that deserved a better conductor than Elio Boncompagni , and certainly one who might have persuaded more sophisticated playing from a dispirited Royal Philharmonic . |
| 2 | If he farms near a town he may be able to buy , still very cheaply , municipal compost and sewage sludge , ensuring beforehand that they do not contain poisonous mineral residues such as lead . |
| 3 | If the patient can stand and balance , he may be able to use the normal toilet . |
| 4 | If the patient has good sitting balance , but not much standing balance , he may be able to sit in a hoist to be lifted into the bath . |
| 5 | If the patient makes good progress physically , with good recovery of balance in sitting and then standing , he may be able to get into the bath . |
| 6 | When he has good selective movements in his hemiplegic leg , he may be able to get down from the bath seat into the bath tub . |
| 7 | As he gets fitter , he may be able to do two or three physically demanding sessions each day , interspersed with lighter activities and rest periods . |
| 8 | If he can not look up names and numbers in his address book , he may be able to memorize the order of a list of people whose numbers are entered into the memory of a modern telephone . |
| 9 | If the patient has recovered the use of his affected hand , he may be able to do jobs like digging and trimming the lawn . |
| 10 | If the general practitioner pronounces the patient fit enough , he may be able to start driving a car again , although he may need to retake a driving test if he has not been able to drive for several months . |
| 11 | For short outings , he may be able to operate an ordinary wheelchair , but driving these one-handed requires enormous effort , so an electrically operated wheelchair is preferable . |
| 12 | A welder , for instance , may not recover sufficient balance or hand control to go back to welding , but he may be able to work light machinery . |
| 13 | If he can not persuade a former employer to take the patient back , he may be able to find suitable alternative work through his knowledge of other companies . |
| 14 | If you can not organize people to come into your home to look after the patient , he may be able to attend a local Day Centre run by the Local Authority . |
| 15 | Today I met someone — an Englishman — who has lived here for ages ( apart from the War years , of course ) and he may be able to help me . |
| 16 | As he becomes fitter he may be able to do more and more , but moderation is the key factor . |
| 17 | From time to time he may be able to supplement his hoard with pieces of fine scribal work culled from early printed books , where they were often used by printers to serve the menial office of strengthening hinges or even acting as a paste-down . |
| 18 | When Bonington returns from his expedition to Panch Chuli , reads the contents of the notebook and sees the photographs he may be able to give a few more clues , but it is unlikely we will ever know what really happened . |
| 19 | He may be able to prescribe some therapy that can help . |
| 20 | She or he may be able to suppress the compulsion for months or even years , believing perhaps that there are more worthwhile , less selfish ways to spend one 's time . |
| 21 | The Minister warned : ‘ He may be able to carry on in the job but he can not do so effectively . |
| 22 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 23 | He was pressed to reduce the size of the Cabinet , but hopelessly excused himself to Jones : ‘ I have told Neville he may be able to do something . |
| 24 | However , it is important for the designer to be aware of the nature and extent of the possibilities that are in principle available so that he may be able to exploit some of them when it seems appropriate . |
| 25 | If an individual has suffered grievance at the hands of the administration , he may be able to obtain redress through the courts . |
| 26 | He may be able to sue for conversion , but that is a different matter . |
| 27 | If B is threatened with a breach of contract he may be able to treat the contract as repudiated and sue for anticipatory breach or , of course , he may await the breach and then sue for damages . |
| 28 | In some cases he may be able to obtain an injunction to restrain the breach and in any case he will be adequately compensated by his remedy in damages for breach of contract as his damage can scarcely be other than financial . |
| 29 | ‘ The point is , he may be able to prove or disprove it . |
| 30 | He may be able to give you some idea what the road is like further on . ’ |