Example sentences of "able [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This course offers an MSc in surgical science , and those with a primary motivation towards an academic career will be able to proceed to PhD registration .
2 Therefore providers ought to be able to agree to contracts for these services at a lower price .
3 They will be more able to develop consensus views based on direct observation and will be able to enthuse to others in the community about what they have seen .
4 John Holt ( one of the few authors whose books still seem able to appeal to students despite their inoculation ) writes of a common experience that mirrors mine with the Scottish educational psychologists .
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 At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school .
7 I used to be able to go to bed early and go to sleep .
8 He hoped greatly to be able to go to Oxford in the autumn ; there should be enough money from a sale to support his mother , his brother and himself till he obtained a degree and could earn his living .
9 She says it 's peculiar nowadays to go to a single sex establishment and she 's glad that men will now be able to go to Somerville
10 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 .
11 Benny was going to be able to go to University College , Dublin , to study for a BA degree because her parents had saved to pay for her .
12 So as you will see , this leaves a hole as big as a goat 's backside in the programme , and Dulcie wrote to Jas and I that unless one of us would write another ballet , and a longish one at that , the University Ballet would n't be able to go to JHB ! ! !
13 Although many East Germans will in future be able to go to Czechoslovakia with official permission , applications must now be made four weeks in advance .
14 So you 'll be able to go to sea now .
15 Olga and Joe had been able to go to school , though they had plenty of farm chores as well .
16 I was lucky to be able to go to school in Parma and not spend all my life in Fontanellato , which was the fate of many ; and on the whole my schooldays were enjoyable .
17 They can not be sure that their children will be able to go to school or that they will receive medical treatment throughout their lives .
18 and working in Hatfield they will not be able to go to Stansted it , it , it all would finally
19 I shall be able to go to Chertsey . ’
20 Miguel said , ‘ If you go visiting tomorrow night , you wo n't be able to go to Pepe 's . ’
21 But I consider myself perfectly competent to be able to go to court , make applications for remand , make pleas of mitigation where there 's a guilty plea and also conduct a case in such a way as to be able to pass it over to someone else in the practice .
22 Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ?
23 I realised that I was lucky to be able to go to England and teach .
24 You must think yourselves lucky to be able to go to Thrush Green as often as you do . ’
25 ‘ If he does n't get any better , we wo n't be able to go to Disneyland , ’ Paul says .
26 Your child poses no risk to other children and is able to go to nursery , playgroup or school and enjoy growing up with other children as much as his or her health allows .
27 In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there .
28 If we were really lucky we 'd be able to go to conference and try and sell hundreds of them to other Green Parties who might want to do the same .
29 I says I do n't , I says when am I gon na be able to go to town I says and afford fifteen quid for another bloody rail ?
30 Well this is , this is why I think may be able to go to French
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