Example sentences of "being able [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A traditional critic has the advantage of being able to turn to standards and values inherited from the past . |
| 2 | For these reasons alone many surveyors decide not to send letters in advance and rely on the interviewers ' skills in being able to explain to people on their doorsteps what the survey is about and why they should help with it . |
| 3 | Pupils may lose their reason for working unless they have learned to work for themselves , to value the pleasure that comes with seeing , and with being able to explain to others . |
| 4 | What a single mother represents may seem touchingly attractive : not having to cook another adult 's meals , or wash his clothes ; being able to go to bed when you want ; being able to go to sleep when you want . |
| 5 | What a single mother represents may seem touchingly attractive : not having to cook another adult 's meals , or wash his clothes ; being able to go to bed when you want ; being able to go to sleep when you want . |
| 6 | As things turned out Meyer had the satisfaction of being able to point to alluvial sources of nephrite in eastern Switzerland and central Germany . |
| 7 | Suppose we begin with an existential hypothesis , without being able to point to any confirming evidence . |
| 8 | look , look , may I put it this way , we 're in the directive of being able to point to something which permits the Secretary of State to delegate the function , that what 's it for |
| 9 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 10 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 11 | He suggests that this maladaptive strategy helps to explain the traumatic neuroses which sometimes follow events like bereavement , and which can be contrasted with successful adjustment in which the individual works through grief triggered by indirect reminders and gradually progresses to being able to respond to stronger reminders of the deceased . |
| 12 | ‘ I have fond memories of people being able to talk to Philip . |
| 13 | Many people will have experienced the relief of being able to talk to another person about their feelings and difficulties . |
| 14 | You do n't have to be a star , you do n't have to be rich , you just have to know what you 're about , you have to have a point of view in life , and what I 'm interested in more than anything else , is an exchange , being able to talk to somebody . |
| 15 | Being able to talk to other people while working ; |
| 16 | No , being able to talk to somebody . |
| 17 | erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries . |
| 18 | Being able to return to William in the evenings brought back a sense of reality and made a difference to the whole trip . |
| 19 | They want to be in control of certain ordinary aspects of life , like opening a window , turning off a radiator , being able to return to a bedsitter at intervals during the day , and to be private or quiet . |
| 20 | Sickness and disability mean not only varying rates of entitlement to social security benefits for different socio-economic groups but also different possibilities of being able to return to work . |
| 21 | Morbidity was also considerably less , with 37 of 40 ( 93% ) patients having no postoperative discomfort and being able to return to school soon after surgery compared with 16 of 35 ( 46% ) who were circumcised . |
| 22 | A kick should never be attempted if there is any risk of not being able to return to a solid stance in time to parry a counter-attack . |
| 23 | He was so depressed , poor boy , at falling in the first place — all Langleys ride as if they were born to it — and then at not being able to return to Cambridge for the last few weeks of term , and his aunt was quite at her wit 's end to know what to do with him . |
| 24 | This great weakness of vulnerability to fragmentation , is to be found in all established religions and it is this which has prevented any of them ever being able to offer to the rest of the world anything even approaching a promise of the universal happiness that is so desired . |
| 25 | Liz Scott-Gibson , who is now director of sign language services for the BDA , subsequently went to Kensington Palace to teach the Princess ; and on a later visit , to a school in Durham , Diana surprised everyone by being able to communicate to the deaf people she met without an interpreter . |
| 26 | Since the majority of heads of schools and teachers inherit the school and the class or specialist rooms in which they work with their pupils , they are seldom in the happy position of being able to contribute to the initial planning of buildings , and consequently their interest may well be centred on adaptations or changes that they can realistically effect , although an appreciation of the more fundamental issues of design and planning may concern them too . |
| 27 | There can be very good discounts for new advertisers and , you never know , it may also lead to your being able to contribute to other programmes on an editorial basis . |
| 28 | for a site and the carrot is actually being able to apply to designation whether you lived up to that . |
| 29 | being able to get to a room where there is a bath/shower , toilet and wash basin and be able to use them , |
| 30 | It will be argued here that the above-noted tendency of the infinitival construction to imply greater subjectivity and possibility of doubt indicates that know is being evoked not just as the state of " being aware of a fact " in these uses but also as the condition for being able to attribute to the direct object of know the event denoted by the infinitive . |