Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those who have had their homes repossessed expect to be able to get a council house easily , ’ she added . |
| 2 | These statistics expressed in terms of expectation of life testify even more vividly to the distance Western society has travelled in being able to take the survival of our children almost for granted . |
| 3 | He has had to be able to turn his hand to almost anything . |
| 4 | And I mean the actual the U K market those in those areas is quite developed and has got quite a reputation but obviously it has got to be able to develop develop and adapt accordingly over time . |
| 5 | I do n't know what he has to do to be able to get a proper chance . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , in these conditions , the Swamp Eel has adapted by being able to breathe atmospheric air during the times of drought when the swamps dry up , aestivating ( the summer version of hibernating ) until more favourable conditions return , by burrowing into the mud or travelling across land in search of alternative waterways . |
| 7 | We have a population which has benefited from being able to tap into a wide and diverse range of information through the printed word . |
| 8 | Apart from the outstanding quality and rarity of many of the items , much of their fascination for scholars has lain in being able to document them in the family 's ancient inventories . |
| 9 | She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it . |
| 10 | She 'd hoped to be able to take him out , perhaps for a longish walk through the forest where they could hope for a glimpse of a deer , but at its heaviest the downpour would have called for wetsuits rather than waterproofs . |
| 11 | And it 's more than er , and you can certainly do a better job than the Carlton so I mean , you do n't call , I mean , you do n't call him any competition at all I do n't but , you 've got to look at being able to do functions for two hundred . |
| 12 | Did you use to have to be able to say refer to job descriptions . |
| 13 | The creatures which live there manage to survive by being able to predict these violent changes . |
| 14 | He needs to , but he 's got to want to be able to that , and if he does then he 'll learn it , he 'll understand that putting brackets round the two and the one means do that first . |
| 15 | They were beautiful , and she would have loved to be able to buy one , but even the simplest was far beyond her pocket . |
| 16 | When Merry blows it in the Shire the revolution against sloth and shabbiness and Saruman- ‘ Sharkey ’ is on : no doubt Tolkien would have liked to be able in his own person to do the same . |
| 17 | We would all have liked to be able to eat normally at meals and not to have to hit each other to be first in the breakfast queue . |
| 18 | He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self . |
| 19 | Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner . |
| 20 | I should have liked to be able to look forward to seeing him , but he said he did n't know how the evening would turn out . ’ |
| 21 | With a capital investment fund , and yet here you are trying to have to borrow to be able to manage next year . |
| 22 | You did want to be able to go around all them works , what , what was it with the |
| 23 | Now , in terms of functional group isomerism I 'm gon na take a slightly different example right let's take this one here first of all I 've now started to do what the examiners will do now I 'll make them identical structures there somewhere and you really do need to be able to name them in order to see where they are or if they are . |
| 24 | We do need to be able to show forgiveness in all the things that we do but it is n't easy and Jesus devotion to is a great challenge to us as to just how far we can go . |
| 25 | So , sure , we do need rote-learning , we do need to be able to say ‘ Three times four is twelve ’ , we must n't have to work it out on our fingers . |
| 26 | I do like to be able to pick a fish up by its head , ’ William Black said , waving a sea bass in rigor mortis at me , before going on to inspect its gills . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , we 're not yet able to get a large enough supply of completely CFC-free material , but do hope to be able to in the near future . |
| 28 | P.S. Mind you , you do have to be able to on-sight Indian Face with an anvil strapped to your chest to become chairman ! |
| 29 | A few people do seem to be able to remember everything ( they have ‘ photographic memories ’ ) but this can often lead to remembering a mass of unwanted material and so things have to be actively ‘ unremembered ’ . |
| 30 | As it happens , cases have been reported recently in which animals do seem to be able to recognize their relatives as such , but that is another story . |