Example sentences of "needs [prep] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horse needs to be able to use its different senses of sight , hearing , touch , smell , and taste , and to perceive change and variety . |
| 2 | There may be areas of the garden which are specially suitable for the patient to work in : he needs to be able to reach the soil with his hands or tools without risking scratching himself on thorny plants or hitting his head or eyes on jutting or overhanging branches . |
| 3 | Once lying down , the patient may practise the movements needed to move into lying on his side and to get up out of bed : for these , he needs to be able to move his shoulder girdle , trunk and pelvis in isolation from each other . |
| 4 | True , he needs to be able to read a line on a green , or at least confirm the line into the hole , but getting the yardages right are of paramount importance . |
| 5 | A human being needs to be able to make himself understood not only when he is shopping or buying a railway ticket , but also when he is expressing his feelings , explaining a principle ( of morals or mechanics ) , or when he is arguing about politics . |
| 6 | Everyone who works in retailing needs to be able to calculate fractions and percentages . |
| 7 | The retailer needs to be able to plan how she uses her money , to work out how much profit she needs to make to stay in business — and to grow . |
| 8 | Most importantly , it needs to be able to tackle the ‘ pre-development gap ’ — the time between an idea and a prototype . |
| 9 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 10 | This presents a major obstacle , in so far as the would-be acquirer needs to be able to calculate the attitude of a target company 's owners to an offer , given that the management will often be uncooperative . |
| 11 | London needs the current establishments of beds , and needs to be able to resource them fully . |
| 12 | We are offering an enterprise-wide solution , so the product needs to be able to access a variety of ledgers . |
| 13 | In an interview the social worker needs to be able to start a conversation with someone in difficulty , who has a problem or need , and explore the matter in such a way that it seems the worker has the feel of the situation , and a grasp of the main facts . |
| 14 | Not only should the parent feel able to express upset at the child 's behaviour but equally the child needs to be able to do this towards the parent . |
| 15 | A good system needs to be able to detect when errors occur , and hopefully also be able to employ some means of correcting them , or at least attempting to correct them . |
| 16 | Indeed , a good strong stock needs to be able to get rid of all it has to push into the scion , without any hindrance . |
| 17 | Now any adequate account of self needs to be able , I think , to encompass and try to make intelligible the ways in which women and men experience themselves . |
| 18 | It must certainly be true , however , that any Company competing in product markets requiring significant technological inputs to product development needs to be able to set aside funds for this purpose . |
| 19 | Everyone needs to be able to integrate work with personal life . |
| 20 | The moral to be drawn is that if we are to give an account of knowledge which does not include a requirement of certainty , our account should make room for the notion of certainty somewhere ; if it sees certainty as a requirement for a knowledge claim it needs to be able to explain in its own terms why that should be so . |
| 21 | The language learner needs to be able to handle language which is not idealized — language in use . |
| 22 | Because such structures are ‘ conventional , and hence culturally variable ’ ( van Dijk and Kintsch 1983:16 ) the language learner , in order to be able to operate effectively as a participant in discourse , needs to be able both to identify what type of discourse he or she is involved in , and to predict how it will typically be structured . |
| 23 | ‘ The individual worker needs to be able to plan in order to work away at meeting them , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The wicketkeeper needs to be able to bat , and for all Alan Knott 's innovative ability and competitiveness , the vote has to go to Les Ames . |
| 25 | The first decision to be faced is whether the institution needs to be able to make its own recordings . |
| 26 | When more or less alone at night in the casualty ward , the doctor needs to be able to make up his or her own mind , and exercise judgement about the particular features presented by the accident victim just wheeled in . |
| 27 | Self-monitoring in a busy classroom is not easy , yet the need for training in the skills of classroom discourse is evident ; as part of that training the trainee or serving teacher needs to be able to objectify his or her modes of discourse in order to begin to improve them . |
| 28 | Classical , Pavlovian conditioning is useful to the animal when it needs to be able to anticipate some repeatedly occurring change in its environment . |
| 29 | For example , he needs to be able to identify himself and give personal facts about himself . |
| 30 | He needs to be able to ask factual questions concerning his environment ( time of buses or trains , finding his way about a city , etc ) and understand the answers to these questions . |