Example sentences of "you [vb mod] to be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ought to be able to cope with a small invasion of your privacy now and then . |
| 2 | Well , as a very , very rough approximation , you ought to be able to get 3–4 pages of answer out of every page of case study text . |
| 3 | ‘ You ought to be able to see it , if you go up high enough . ’ |
| 4 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 5 | ( You ought to be able to deduce at least five . |
| 6 | ‘ Now you cheap shamus , with the underhanded methods you use you ought to be able to figure this out before the cops get around to it . |
| 7 | " You ought to be able to see that with half an eye . |
| 8 | the point about membership is that you ought to be able to comment on those suggestions of change and get involved with them on a broad basis . |
| 9 | You ought to be able to drive up here did n't you ? |
| 10 | So quite honestly you ought to be able to make a a bit of something out of it there 's |
| 11 | The erm but most of us are when yo , when you first join something you can always see the things that you ought to be able to change . |
| 12 | In turn , we press our point and say , ‘ But it 's a cow , and this is a very simple word , and you ought to be able to understand it . ’ |
| 13 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 14 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 15 | BIRDS do it , bees do it , but you used to be able to watch Emmerdale Farm with your granny and be confident that the cast would n't do it . |
| 16 | It 's very difficult to get professional advice that is apposite — you used to be able to get free advice from the Ministry of Agriculture but now they charge you for the privilege of being told how not to farm . ’ |
| 17 | You used to be able to go along to a pottery , say , and say , ‘ What was going on here at about eight o'clock this morning ? ’ … |
| 18 | And you used to be ab well you used to be able to over the flames of the fire on one side , and then er a saucepan on the other on the in one side with your vegetables in one side , with your potatoes in and then you used to have your oven with a for your meat . |
| 19 | And er then er these two erm er Then when we used to when we was the young you used to be able to go down to Skeggie for a day on train for two and six . |
| 20 | Well you used to be able to book up a over a year in advance . |
| 21 | Then you used to be able to buy clay pipes , I do n't think you could today . |
| 22 | You used to be able to get odd knick nacks in there now it is just like any other store and we have enough up market stores in Thame . |
| 23 | I mean you used to be able to go ah ! |
| 24 | You see you can , you get a lot , you can get tax relief off that or you used to be able to get tax relief . |
| 25 | Erm you used to be able , this tea point in the office right , you saw it the fucking on |
| 26 | used , ya , you used to be able to get it and it would crumble it was rea , you know real |
| 27 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |