Example sentences of "to [be] able [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty will be to find specialists who know enough about the groups concerned to be able to single out the new one . |
| 2 | But , until then , I have to be able to sort out the confusion for my clients . ’ |
| 3 | The law reports , both of this country and of other jurisdictions , contain many statements emphasising the importance of the right , in a democratic society , to be able to criticise freely the conduct of affairs by public authorities . |
| 4 | They do not have either the mental or physical equipment to be able to carry out the many complex activities involved in the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 5 | It was a relief to be able to put down the suitcase . |
| 6 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 7 | Ten years from now I 'm gon na be 52 , and I 'm not going to be able to go down the Hacienda without looking a complete prat . |
| 8 | We 've got to be able to set out the implications of the decisions , that may or may not be made , and priorities at a given time . |
| 9 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |
| 10 | Judges ought , when they are pre-reading a case , to be able to pick up the skeleton argument , and they ought actually to be able to start with the skeleton argument , which would tell them in very succinct form the background facts and what the points are . |
| 11 | The representation is , of course , implicit and we would not expect any child to be able to state explicitly the phrase structure rules and transformations generating the sentences of his language . |
| 12 | Well he had to switch on the interior light to be able to fill out the form . |
| 13 | The abilities not just to comprehend , to take things into one 's own understanding , and to make something of them , but also to be able to evaluate critically the available theories and traditions , and to be willing and have the mental toughness to take up a stance of one 's own : all these abilities point to an intellectual independence , requiring real academic freedom for their realization . |
| 14 | Despite his postscript , in which he condemned free enterprise systems and declared himself an apologist for socialism in Europe , I am pleased to be able to take up the remarks of the hon. Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) . |
| 15 | And now she knew that she would have done anything to be able to roll back the clock . |
| 16 | So I ought to be able to work out the difference between them . |
| 17 | Benn is too much a product of his comfortable and intensely high-minded background to be able to understand why the common man ( let alone the common politician ) has more vulgar aspirations than plain living and high thinking . |
| 18 | We would like to be able to even out the load , by sharing usage where possible . |
| 19 | But the institutions of the 1970s were too rigidly set within the competing duopoly ( BBC 1 + BBC2 = ITV ) to be able to meet fully the demands made upon them . |
| 20 | Now I am delighted to be able to hand over the spot-light to my three management colleagues on the management team . |