Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Another conclusion that emerged from this study was that around one thousand objects would need to be sampled to be able to detect the sort of peaks which were actually present . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One group that was frequently excluded was the poor — those who could not be guaranteed to be able to pay their own funeral expenses . |
| 7 | The only Scottish parliament which will be guaranteed to be able to bring water services back into public ownership is an independent one . |