Example sentences of "to [be] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that we were going to be able to love without fear . |
| 2 | To be able to sue in negligence , three essential ingredients must be present ; they are : a duty of care owed to the injured party ; a breach of that duty of care ; consequential loss , that is , loss which is a direct and natural result of the breach of duty of care . |
| 3 | Were the local authority to be able to sue in libel in respect of the same matters complained of by an individual councillor this would create duplication of proceedings and increased costs ( post , pp. 56E , 65A ) . |
| 4 | Jacques 's Master follows Kristeva in her argument that , just as the subject is eclipsed or subverted in the process of its creation , so the author must pass through the same ‘ zero ’ in order for the reader to be able to participate as receptor in the economy of communication established by the novel : |
| 5 | At first I would go for short walks , lasting perhaps half an hour , and then return to bed sufficiently impressed with my own daring to be able to relax into sleep . |
| 6 | Is it a sin to love , to need love , not to be able to live without love ? |
| 7 | a fiery fellow ( the salamander was popularly supposed to be able to live in fire ) ; also , a circular iron plate which is heated and placed over a pudding or other dish to brown it ( OED ) . |
| 8 | So all , as I say erm , never used to be able to die with asthma there was but very few , but now it seems to be more common because people are not going for help when they need it . |
| 9 | They wanted employees to be able to deal with manufacturing problems on their own initiative , without management intervention . |
| 10 | Whoever it is needs to be able to see through hype and bullshit . |
| 11 | She looked at him with a derision of her own , delighted to be able to go into battle , and she was just standing to leave when there was a noise in another room of the suite as if something had fallen over . |
| 12 | I was lucky to be able to go to school in Parma and not spend all my life in Fontanellato , which was the fate of many ; and on the whole my schooldays were enjoyable . |
| 13 | I used to be able to go to bed early and go to sleep . |
| 14 | You must think yourselves lucky to be able to go to Thrush Green as often as you do . ’ |
| 15 | Benny was going to be able to go to University College , Dublin , to study for a BA degree because her parents had saved to pay for her . |
| 16 | But I consider myself perfectly competent to be able to go to court , make applications for remand , make pleas of mitigation where there 's a guilty plea and also conduct a case in such a way as to be able to pass it over to someone else in the practice . |
| 17 | To be able to sit in silence with his father , without any need to make conversation — so relaxed together that he can sit there licking his finger and wiping marks off the telephone ! |
| 18 | How lucky Dmitri was to be able to stride on stage and become someone entirely different . |
| 19 | It 'd be quite nice for me to be able to pop into town and get a bit of meat or something |
| 20 | The need for greater international collaboration so as to be able to respond to reactor accidents which have no respect for international borders was urged . |
| 21 | But there is budget in the testing resource budget to be able to accommodate for cover we would then decide how best to handle that . |
| 22 | All adults need to be able to cope with diversity and to expect variety as we live in a highly varied world . |
| 23 | I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case . |
| 24 | ‘ The individual worker needs to be able to plan in order to work away at meeting them , ’ he said . |
| 25 | While doing this the men are supposed to be separated by some distance in order to be able to call for radio assistance and to allow fire to be returned should one of them be attacked , and for the constable whose patch it is to become solely identified as the area 's neighbourhood policeman . |
| 26 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 27 | Eyeshadows are a tricky one to be able to do in store — there must be 100 different browns alone , they 'd need to be mixed as a loose powder and sold pressed … ’ |
| 28 | A further requirement is to be able to select for execution one out of two or more sequences of instructions depending on a previously calculated numeric value . |
| 29 | They need to be able to recognise on sight a large proportion of the words they encounter and to be able to predict meaning on the basis of phonic , idiomatic and grammatical regularities and of what makes sense in context ; children should be encouraged to make informed guesses . |
| 30 | The advantage that Ken offered the team was the ability to be able to pull off love scenes and other out-of-character poses without anyone ridiculing the whole thing . |