Example sentences of "[verb] [being] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 2 | He had enjoyed being able to tell Sunil all about it at lunch , though he had been a little worried by the way Sunil had then gazed at Gooseneck throughout the meal with evident hero-worship . |
| 3 | ‘ Imagine being able to radio to base . |
| 4 | Now , imagine being able to show a feature film on your television from an ordinary compact disc player . |
| 5 | I also enjoy being able to use other skills and interests including my languages . |
| 6 | The former includes being able to adjust ways of speaking — such as tone and vocabulary — according to audience , context and purpose ; the latter involves skills of concentration and assimilation . |
| 7 | This includes being able to recover an injured diver . |
| 8 | ( We anticipate being able to influence the development of BG-BASE ) . |
| 9 | By raising and lowering the handle it is possible to follow the contours of the shape , and though this can also be said of a normal chisel , I enjoyed being able to concentrate solely on the chisel edge , as if whittling . |
| 10 | The second problem was her aversion to handing out money to charity ; although she enjoyed being able to help specific ventures in a practical way she hated the idea of charity balls or making large cash handouts . |
| 11 | Joseph enjoyed being able to scold his wicked employer , with warnings from the Bible , and I could not leave Miss Catherine . |
| 12 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
| 13 | Artists do just stop being able to do it . |
| 14 | They like being able to afford French champagne , to send their children to schools in France or to take holidays on the French Riviera . |
| 15 | I just like being able to do things on impulse . ’ |
| 16 | Erm we also offered everything from sort of secretarial help and er use of photocopiers and duplicators , to the tenants ' group , through to I guess being able to perhaps suggest to them who in the council it might be that they needed to speak to , or perhaps tactically how to go about achieving their particular aims . |
| 17 | The carrying system worked well for me and being broad-shouldered and thick-necked I particularly appreciated being able to properly and permanently adjust the width between the shoulder straps . |
| 18 | She loved being able to run over meadows and explore woods and paddle in streams , but she did n't like the cows she sometimes came upon suddenly filling a lane ; the great horned beasts scared her . |
| 19 | Being a ‘ great power ’ meant being able to conduct a big war . |
| 20 | But that is n't always the incentive that drives the do-it-yourself home builder : it can also mean being able to afford the things you really want . |
| 21 | Danger signals arise when the normal pain and unhappiness that accompanies all emotional growth enlarges to become a depression which you simply can not shift , particularly if you feel ( for more than a passing moment ) that there 's nothing left to live for — or if you realise in time that you 've stopped being able to look after yourself . |
| 22 | In general , having a concept ( whether linguistic or pre-linguistic ) involves being able to draw inferences linking it usefully with other concepts . |
| 23 | Language understanding also involves being able to relate the information in successive sentences , which is why psycholinguists have turned their attention to discourse interpretation , that is , to the comprehension of whole passages rather than single sentences . |
| 24 | Working successfully involves being able to cope with 100 per cent of the cases which arise . |
| 25 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 26 | Through teaching he enjoys being able to pass his skills on to others and is confident that he will soon have his new pupils rocking and rolling , quickstepping and cha-cha-chaaing the night away . |
| 27 | However , it will never be possible to test the validity of this conclusion , since ‘ knowing the meaning of a word ’ implies being able to use that word in an infinite number of possible situations . |
| 28 | Understanding in this sense means being able to perceive structure amongst a set of observations that were at first sight perplexing and confusing . |
| 29 | ‘ It means being able to count on time each week to deal with whatever the home priority is . |
| 30 | And this means being able to forgive yourself as well as other people . |