Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] able to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practice would need to be able to accurately check the blood glucose , weigh the patient , examine the eyes and record the results . |
| 2 | ‘ Most of our customers are second time buyers who know what they want and expect to be able to just walk in and take it off the shelf like a can of beans , ’ he says . |
| 3 | he has to be able to sudden changes in the game 's pattern , for a single lack of judgment is likely to be more decisive than in the longer game . |
| 4 | These salts need to have a high ‘ Biological Availability ’ ie the horse has to be able to efficiently digest and absorb the minerals . |
| 5 | I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before . |
| 6 | Well it 's bound to me , he must get fed up , but eh , he do n't really want a job like , full time , he wants to be able to he gets fed up of it being full time after a while . |
| 7 | A rich peasant is a peasant who works his own land but will employ some wage labour as well because he has a large enough plot to be able to , to need to do that . |
| 8 | There is a fascinating passage in Hebrews 7 ; 25 , where the Lord Jesus is said to be able to ‘ save to the uttermost those who come to God by him , because he is always alive to make intercession for them ’ . |
| 9 | going to be able to ? |
| 10 | You 're not going to be able to just look at it and write down something equals two X are you . |
| 11 | And it does n't look as if I 'm going to be able to either , thought Donna irritably . |
| 12 | ‘ Tell me now , or I 'm not going to be able to . ’ |
| 13 | PISCES Whether or not you are going to be able to fully exercise your ability to earn a high income is likely to be revealed this week ! |
| 14 | Now rotations are frequently used in agriculture , and if you 're locked into a rotation , it does n't really matter what happens to current price , you 're not going to be able to af to change your output , right , because you 've got to er , keep into this , in this rotation . |
| 15 | I do n't think I 'm going to be able to . |
| 16 | They would like to be able to be caring within limits , and without the fear that they might get overwhelmed or taken for a ride . |
| 17 | Although Martin has said that some bass players like to be able to significantly alter their sound while they are actually playing on stage , I 've never seen the need to have all the gubbins on the bass to do that , then have lots more gubbins on the amp to do more of the same . |
| 18 | Farmers are normally too busy trying to run their dwindling holdings and make ends meet to be able to swan off to Butlin 's for a spot of pigeon-beheading . |
| 19 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I I would hope to be able to party conference probably only which would mean turning up either Friday night or Saturday morning . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | The artists do not have to be able to draw , though it helps : they do , however , have to be able to ‘ visualize ’ a design or a film and be able to explain their ideas by words and rough pictures so that a specialized artist or photographer can produce the finished illustration . |
| 24 | You might want to be able to sort of get to their flat very quickly . |
| 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 | Well you claim to be able to . |
| 27 | Stephen liked to be able to wrong-foot the people who worked for him and was a master at taking them off-guard . |
| 28 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 29 | We wished to be able to : |
| 30 | We had to be able to invoice in a local currency and yet be able to account for it in sterling . ’ |