Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | but you 'd want to be able to know that you can I do n't know , I mean , I , I think , with , with the place I am now I just do n't know what to make of it really |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to say yes I do , but I left so long ago . |
| 3 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 4 | However we choose to define multiple orgasm , there are a lot of us who 'd like to be able to do it . |
| 5 | So of course I said how much I 'd like to be able to play my guitar like a saxophone , and he said , ‘ Yeah — and vice versa . ’ |
| 6 | They should encourage the client to commit him/herself to something specific , i.e. , ‘ I 'd like to stop having panic attacks ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to be able to catch the train up to London ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to understand and cope more effectively with my anxiety symptoms ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to be more relaxed giving presentations at work ’ . |
| 7 | I 'd like to be able to overcome that feeling that it was a problem to everybody else . |
| 8 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to convince him that it was n't that mob that took a shot at him . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The other is for Rachel , Flo 's wife in South Africa , because I knew he would n't get round to doing it himself and I thought she 'd like to be able to show their little daughter a picture of her father doing something responsible and public-spirited for a change . ’ |
| 11 | Just for once I 'd like to be able to do something properly , but I never will . |
| 12 | I 'd like to be able to spend some time in Japan , which I find very beautiful and relaxing . ’ |
| 13 | " We get on very well with our neighbours , " Michael explained , " and we decided that we 'd like to be able to look into each other 's gardens . |
| 14 | erm I 'd like to be able to present something in front of me which prompts me a bit better than I do at the moment I tend to get lost in what 's in front of me . |
| 15 | I mean as long as we 've got something which is in the of where we want to be , we can actually measure how well we 're performing against our own plan , which I think is what you 'd like to be able to do . |
| 16 | Ah well I 'd like to be able to pay for what I want too you know . |
| 17 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 18 | Yeah I 'd love to be able |
| 19 | For example , we would want to be able to recover bracelet from the input bwacelet . |
| 20 | Furthermore , on other occasions the acoustic-phonetic information might be misleading ; we would want to be able to recover from or some other minor mispronunciation . |
| 21 | The practice would need to be able to accurately check the blood glucose , weigh the patient , examine the eyes and record the results . |
| 22 | Rather , we would need to be able to trace the development of our naive physical concepts , distinguishing their earlier , sensorimotor , forms from the later , linguistically-informed , semantic contents and inferential patterns . |
| 23 | Fourthly , each would need to be able to produce acts conditional on the other producing acts , thus securing the chains of interdependent acts typical of interaction . |
| 24 | A lay person would appear to be able to do little in this direction , except perhaps check with local trade associations . |
| 25 | Of the predators , fruit pigeons were abundant on figs whose seeds are inviable thereafter , but they avoided , as in the Trinidad example , the large fruits , such as those of Dysoxylum ( Meliaceae ) , which they would appear to be able to deal with ( these fruits are dispersed by hornbills ) . |
| 26 | It is in fact a moot point whether one would expect to be able to classify all flows as either turbulent or non-turbulent — or , equivalently , whether during transition to turbulence one should be able to designate the point at which turbulent motion begins . |
| 27 | In any future release , two welcome refinements would be the simultaneous inclusion of source and load resistances in divider computations ; and audio and communications designers would like to be able to toggle divider ratios and percent error , to read out in dB voltage ( log20 ) and maybe power ( log10 ) deciBels . |
| 28 | Workers indicated that they would like to be able to take their holidays without being obliged to find a replacement and so have to do double duty before or after their holiday . |
| 29 | Ideally , one would like to be able to specify the particular solution corresponding to an arbitrary set of initial conditions . |
| 30 | I would like to be able to attend a gathering with all the sporting greats who have provided hours and hours of exciting achievements . |