Example sentences of "able [prep] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being able to was not the same as being willing to , however , and the icy glare of the semi-nude man in front of her was n't encouraging . |
| 2 | He is able to be painfully honest ( and funny ) about a childhood encounter with a baby raper and the misogyny that resulted from his disastrous teenage sex life — I mean , this guy would be a superb candidate for Radio 4 's In The Psychiatrist 's Chair . |
| 3 | Awnings must be able to be easily customised with logos and graphics ; all the better , if the canopy material is transulucent to allow back lighting to illuminate the restaurant 's name at night . |
| 4 | Outside Scotland and Wales politicians have often been able to be singularly insensitive to local issues . |
| 5 | By the end of the 80s , Sinitta had established a stable home life suitable for a dog , even if she was n't always able to be around . |
| 6 | But it will scarcely be more , nor need it be more , than the mere fact of no name being able to be clearly attached to the murderer till the book is nearly over . |
| 7 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 8 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 9 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 10 | Erm one from Paddy and I have an official letter er apologizing for not being able to be here . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend the Minister who is responsible for health in Northern Ireland is not able to be here today because he is on duty in the Province . |
| 12 | Madam Deputy Speaker there is course another matter of er of er broader significance and that is that er whilst these orders er er er cover erm certain financial institutions , they do n't erm they do n't cover others , they do n't cover Lloyds of London in so far as I could see , erm I 'd half expected to see the honourable member for Gloucester West er in his place to pursue his campaign that apparently he er he he is not able to be here and indeed er others who sit on the benches opposite who lost a large sum of money in Lloyds , er but they might have had something to say about it as it does seem odd that Lloyds has not been covered , no doubt the minister would tell us that needs primary legislation and I I 'm quite sure this government would move heaven and earth not to introduce another Lloyds bill er because of er the problems that that would no doubt attract . |
| 13 | Each sentence must have a meaning all its own , if that meaning is able to be exactly copied by a sentence in another language . |
| 14 | The weather was beautiful and those who were fortunate to know that his special was operating and were able to be somewhere along the route were fortunate to share a most attractive experience . |
| 15 | Certain types of mental illnesses result in a diminished awareness , so that the sufferers are not able to be completely responsible for carrying out the activities to achieve a safe environment . |
| 16 | In addition to that , John Prescott was mentioned , and John could not attend the meetings that he does around the country if he did not have the facility to be able to be away from Parliament during times when erm , there are votes that need to be taken . |
| 17 | English was the largest department , and the one able to be most selective , the source of more potential B.Ed . |
| 18 | Six or seven days , I would say — I 'll not be able to be more precise until the autopsy . ’ |
| 19 | They felt that they were now able to be more flexible and to make decisions which led to action . |
| 20 | Abroad we are sometimes able to be more flexible . |
| 21 | By the 1730s they were able to be more active . |
| 22 | It is similar to the nursing agency arrangement but is preferable because the Health Authority is able to be more selective about whom it employs . |
| 23 | If teachers do not believe that their pupils are able to be more responsible for their own mathematical learning , then they are not likely to give them the opportunity to be so . |
| 24 | Maybe the assertive person might be able to be more flexible certainly cos he can move between . |
| 25 | So one thing that was mentioned this morning was somebody wanted to be able to be more persuasive in order to put a point of view across . |
| 26 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 27 | ‘ Out of doors is the best place for Brownies , really , but we 've only been able to be out of doors so much because of this hot summer . |
| 28 | While not all individuals felt able to be out and visible all the time , the invisibility that had isolated lesbians and gays for decades and stifled their creativity had , to some extent , been lifted . |
| 29 | Critical applications will be able to be further optimised with the advanced parallel environment to be provided with the planned scalable parallel processing systems . |
| 30 | Critical applications will be able to be further optimised with the advanced parallel environment to be provided with the planned scalable parallel processing systems . |