Example sentences of "to [be] able to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should be so lucky to be able to . |
| 2 | Hilary Wainwright did begin to raise such questions in stating that truly radical television would have to address the needs of its audience if it was to be able to ‘ imagine the real messy , [ business of socialism ] ’ . |
| 3 | The practice would need to be able to accurately check the blood glucose , weigh the patient , examine the eyes and record the results . |
| 4 | Clamp ( 1980 ) sets out eight objectives which may be achieved by learning through incidents , and these briefly are to be able to : |
| 5 | I SEE A COMPARISON BETWEEN yourselves and ‘ The Most Dangerous Band In The World ’ on the Letterman Show in America , in that you have to be able to back anyone who comes on the show . |
| 6 | Although Martin has said that some bass players like to be able to significantly alter their sound while they are actually playing on stage , I 've never seen the need to have all the gubbins on the bass to do that , then have lots more gubbins on the amp to do more of the same . |
| 7 | To be able to ‘ identify what their interests and ideas might be ’ is to take up a political stance to life at work . |
| 8 | We had to be able to invoice in a local currency and yet be able to account for it in sterling . ’ |
| 9 | To be able to be creative and innovative and use ideas |
| 10 | P.S. Mind you , you do have to be able to on-sight Indian Face with an anvil strapped to your chest to become chairman ! |
| 11 | In most disciplines it is not possible to say exactly when the discipline has achieved sufficient breadth and depth to be able to be considered as a subject in its own right . |
| 12 | But once familiar with partial knitting you will probably find it very helpful to be able to partially knit along the top edge to produce a slope at each side leaving the centre stitches for the neck edge . |
| 13 | You need to enter this into the console to be able to actually see the pattern written instructions as you knit . |
| 14 | They would like to be able to be caring within limits , and without the fear that they might get overwhelmed or taken for a ride . |
| 15 | The industry needs more and more MIPS to be able to programme at higher and higher levels . |
| 16 | Nor was every man assessed on landed income an owner , for some used to take leases so as to be able to sublet them for profit . |
| 17 | Whatever it is , it needs to have been thrashed out endlessly with the top leadership of the business and to be able to be expressed in a single , understandable , clear and unambiguous sentence . |
| 18 | We plan four or five new productions a year — there 's no chance for people to say bad things , because they have to show extremely high professionalism to be able to on stage very often , to learn fast , to be prepared to replace a colleague ’ — there are two or three casts for everything , even Khovanshchina — ‘ and to spend time with the company . ’ |
| 19 | Most items can be sent in sealed envelopes or packages , but if you are using the Printed Papers service please remember that the packaging needs to be easy to open for Customs examination and to be able to be repacked without additional packaging — the best solution is to use string or plastic tags . |
| 20 | Again a mobile unit will be important so as to be able to gradually move through the woodland . |
| 21 | A rich peasant is a peasant who works his own land but will employ some wage labour as well because he has a large enough plot to be able to , to need to do that . |
| 22 | Erm yeah i l I like people to be able to independently check up on us , because that gives us so much more validity . |
| 23 | going to be able to ? |
| 24 | The artists do not have to be able to draw , though it helps : they do , however , have to be able to ‘ visualize ’ a design or a film and be able to explain their ideas by words and rough pictures so that a specialized artist or photographer can produce the finished illustration . |
| 25 | I have found them working in ways I had never expected them to be able to . |
| 26 | I know too much about the guys who write the rest of the stuff to be able to stomach it . ’ |
| 27 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 28 | You 're not going to be able to just look at it and write down something equals two X are you . |
| 29 | The point is that individual shareholders , each with a holding insufficient to affect the outcome of the bid , have an incentive to reject the offer to buy their shares in order to be able to ‘ free ride ’ on the efforts of the bidder , if successful . |
| 30 | Stephen liked to be able to wrong-foot the people who worked for him and was a master at taking them off-guard . |