Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [vb pp] to be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | The client must be helped to be able to rationalize and accept their symptoms as natural bodily processes — a signal to reduce stress , rather than a signal of impending doom . |
| 2 | It should also be noted that at the beginning of an assignment , the composition of both vendor and purchaser must be known to be able to consider taking advantage of this exclusion . |
| 3 | Meetings therefore always took place at five-thirty in the evening , a time when a politician , a lawyer or a captain of industry might be expected to be able to get away from his office for an important private occasion . |
| 4 | Although the students had few problems in discerning a variety of viable strategies for presenting new lexis in such a way that learners might be thought to be able to perceive its meaning without the intervention of English , the areas of structure and discourse proved less tractable . |
| 5 | The only Scottish parliament which will be guaranteed to be able to bring water services back into public ownership is an independent one . |