Example sentences of "be able [to-vb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is expected to be able to vote in the crucial Maastricht Treaty referendum on Sunday . |
| 2 | There is , true enough , no bank to poke into — get round the first headland and the next bank is the shore of Svalbard — but it would still be a good idea to be able to go in a straight line . |
| 3 | You will need to consult the " blue book " the Advertisers Annual , and the Creative Handbook which you should be able to see in a public library . |
| 4 | In fact , the same behavior of gravity with distance in more than three space dimensions means that the sun would not be able to exist in a stable state with pressure balancing gravity . |
| 5 | Of performance against arousal levels and we agreed that the the purpose of training like this and also putting these principles into practice is to be able to handle more and more arousal er more and more nerves and still and still be able to perform in a confident manner . |
| 6 | Fraser assumed , indeed , that the government would by degrees allocate frequencies such that more than one ITV station would be able to broadcast in a given area . |
| 7 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that the Secretary of State for Employment will no longer be able to participate in the Social Affairs Council — I am sure that many of our partners will not miss him — and , if that is so , will he consider demoting him and reducing his salary ? |
| 8 | Another approach has been to consider how a monster or family of monsters , if they did indeed exist in the loch , might be able to survive in a freshwater environment . |
| 9 | Whether it would be able to survive in the new , more competitive , environment and obtain as much advertising revenue as it does now is far from clear . |
| 10 | 4/ The developing countries mostly need to be able to compete in the developed world market , which needs increased co-operation . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope to be able to legislate in the next parliamentary session , ’ he said . |
| 12 | If Durham spends some of that cash in Darlington the Government should be able to help in the second and third year of development . ’ |
| 13 | A. If you find a house or flat you could buy but ca n't get a large enough building society or bank mortgage , the local authority may be able to help in the following ways : |
| 14 | The best hope of exporting industrial products is in the developing countries , some of which ( eg the newly industrialised countries ) may also be able to help in the Soviet modernisation programme , particularly the provision of consumer durables . |
| 15 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 16 | This does not mean that national history and culture will not bulk large in the educational systems of particular countries , especially the smaller ones , or that they may not flourish locally within a much broader supranational framework as , say , Catalan culture today flourishes , but on the tacit assumption that it is Catalans who will communicate with the rest of the world through Spanish and English , since few non-residents in Catalonia will be able to communicate in the local language . |
| 17 | ‘ Less than 1,000 athletes will not be able to stay in the Olympic village , ’ he announced . |
| 18 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 19 | All your endeavours should thus be directed to earning money , and you should be very careful to spend as little as possible , or you will not be able to travel in an honourable fashion … |
| 20 | She would have the length of the leash to fly with , but would only be able to fly in a straight line , to me , at the other end of the fixed creance . |
| 21 | DARLINGTON teenagers will soon be able to meet in a new club . |