Example sentences of "be able use [adj] " in BNC.

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1 End users will be able to use personal computer and workstation-based tools that feature graphical user interfaces for easier manipulation and analysis of data , it suggests .
2 If the time of period that you choose to study allows , you may be able to use oral evidence .
3 However , you may only have one General , so you will not be able to use certain characters together .
4 All children should be supported in valuing their own dialects and in using them where they are appropriate to context and purpose , but they should also be able to use Standard English when it is necessary and helpful to do so in speaking as well as writing .
5 It is usual to assume that the pupils will be able to use close-range materials on the desk or table in front of them , and then look up to the blackboard , perhaps to copy notes or diagrams displayed there , then quickly refocus on to their desk work .
6 And , as David Byrne , the NAL 's director , points out , people who wear hearing aids will neither be able to use digital mobiles , nor work with colleagues who use them .
7 The literature on strategic entry deterrence has analysed how firms may be able to use sunk costs to maintain dominant positions ( Gilbert , 1989 ; Sutton , 1991 ) .
8 ‘ When the Government was persuading Parliament to accept the right to buy scheme , they said that local authorities would be able to use accumulated funds from selling their houses to build more .
9 Only a few junk-bond issuers will be able to use debt-for-equity swaps .
10 On Monday , May 31 , and Tuesday , June 1 there will be pottery workshops where visitors will be able to use genuine Roman techniques and designs to make their own Ante-fix ( and to find out what an Ante-fix is you will have to go along ) .
11 He fully realises that there are situations when the world organisation must be able to use military force .
12 Pressing need : Boutros Boutros-Ghali fully realises that there are situations when the world organisation must be able to use military force .
13 In order to be able to use contextual relations for semantic purposes , therefore , we need to be able to recognise and discount combinatorial peculiarities which are purely grammatical in nature .
14 We must for example be able to use concurrent users of the same accounting information in many different languages .
15 Whether the Japanese will eventually be able to use solar energy to obtain metals from the sea remains to be seen , but they have proved that it is possible for copper at least .
16 It is significant that Maltwood was a sculptor , since one of the skills of a sculptor is to be able to use natural form to create a vivid and living piece of art , using and flowing with the natural lines .
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