Example sentences of "be able to [be] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It will mean that wide-ranging corporate risks will be able to be placed with just one underwriter .
2 It will mean that wide-ranging corporate risks will be able to be placed with just one underwriter .
3 Six or seven days , I would say — I 'll not be able to be more precise until the autopsy . ’
4 Given the present hopeful international situation , we believe that further reductions in levels of armaments will be able to be made without in any way endangering security .
5 ‘ I may not be able to be with her . ’
6 The loco would be able to be driven from a cab at either end , and two or more units could be coupled in multiple and controlled from one cab , as with present-day diesels .
7 On the other hand you will be able to be much more objective and not allow yourself to be unduly influenced by personality when the fundamental qualifications and expertise are missing .
8 Others in the group argued that up to a point all those things were right , but that often a subject was complex , often it could be constructive for everyone to have a chairperson who would guide discussion , not control it , who would be able to be supportive when someone talked too much or too little .
9 ‘ We believe we are making our financial statements more understandable , and that they will now be able to be read by people other than actuaries .
10 We believe that our financial statements will now be able to be read by people other than actuaries .
11 To be able to be creative and innovative and use ideas
12 If the praise is genuine , the giver should be able to be specific .
13 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 .
14 Housing experts fear lenders may no longer be able to be flexible — and have to repossess as the slump in the housing market worsens .
15 Kids will be able to be Reg and Ron or whoever they want .
16 This means that to use the node structure from the trie , few routes would be able to be re-used , resulting in a dawg which is little different from the original trie ( figure 3.6 ) .
17 The intended words might be able to be suggested for examples 1 and 4 if a method of whole word recognition were employed , because sleep and steep , boots and books have the same overall shape .
18 Not only may the recogniser be able to be lexically-driven , but other levels of information ( e.g. syntax and semantics ) should also be able to direct the pattern recognition .
19 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 .
20 Indeed , only a month before war began , General Haig stated that it would be foolish to think ‘ that aeroplanes will be able to be usefully employed for reconnaissance ’ ; he believed that only cavalry could gather information .
21 Disk-resident MIBs will be able to be loaded and activated dynamically as well as unloaded and de-activated in order to free memory .
22 Critical applications will be able to be further optimised with the advanced parallel environment to be provided with the planned scalable parallel processing systems .
23 Processing work will be able to be farmed out to networked Unix-based machines from the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Silicon Graphics Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co , even IBM mainframes running AIX/ESA will be able to join the melting-pot .
24 This means that a Windows NT workstation will be able to be converted into a multiuser and multitasking host .
25 Disk-resident MIBs will be able to be loaded and activated dynamically as well as unloaded and de-activated in order to free memory .
26 SNMP information from intelligent hub systems will also be able to be forwarded to IBM 's mainframe host-based NetView management environment .
27 Critical applications will be able to be further optimised with the advanced parallel environment to be provided with the planned scalable parallel processing systems .
28 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 .
29 A text section of one million characters should be able to be copied from or loaded to the system within five minutes .
30 The chief specification is that corresponding entries from OED and the Supplement should be able to be called up together to the screen or other outputting device .
  Next page