Example sentences of "being able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem was that if the new devolved NHS services were to replace the asylums ' treatment , then a structure of long-term support would be needed for those who , albeit now being able to live in the community rather than vegetate as long-term inpatients , still mostly required structured day care or home visiting or occupation . |
| 2 | 4 not being able to cope in an emergency , e.g. a haemorrhage or cardiac arrest . |
| 3 | What chance was there of this little community , riddled with prejudice and of limited intelligence , being able to discriminate between the strength of one argument and the strength of another ? |
| 4 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 5 | Community care also highlights one of the fundamental flaws of charters — there is little point being able to complain about a service if it simply is not there in the first place . |
| 6 | As a result , the first edition of Annex 13 was drawn up and the basic principle of one State ( the State of registry ) being able to participate in the investigation conducted by another State ( the State of occurrence ) was established . |
| 7 | And that was my problem with it was that I was in much in terms of being able to go into the classroom an and talk to the kids and have a really good relationship with the teachers and things . |
| 8 | Since there was no question of us being able to invest in a cargo ourselves , let alone afford to charter the empty vessel , our only solution lay in returning to Makassar and attempting to persuade our Chinese friends to raise the merchandise themselves and to send us along as its stewards and guardians . |
| 9 | I regret not being able to deal with the subject of community care policy as extensively as its importance deserves , although there is a general discussion in Chapter 3 . |
| 10 | This is a move which is to be welcomed , for with greater harmonisation of policies industry will be able to operate more efficiently through being able to plan within an environment of greater certainty , and will be more secure in the knowledge that its domestic and international operations are likely to receive compatible treatment from the respective authorities . |
| 11 | Moreover , writers such as Poulantzas ( e.g. 1978 ) pointed out that the state was not just called upon to meet the needs of capitalist accumulation ; in a class-divided society the long term stability of the system depended on the state 's being able to act as a force of cohesion and stand as a ‘ symbol of legitimacy ’ for all sections of society . |
| 12 | He had spent four unwilling years as an articled clerk in his father 's law office , before being able to enrol as a student . |
| 13 | Like not being able to sneeze on the cheese . |
| 14 | He despised her coarseness in being able to sleep with the light on . |
| 15 | The relief of being able to talk about the problem at all will probably be of some comfort . |
| 16 | They want to be in control of certain ordinary aspects of life , like opening a window , turning off a radiator , being able to return to a bedsitter at intervals during the day , and to be private or quiet . |
| 17 | This great weakness of vulnerability to fragmentation , is to be found in all established religions and it is this which has prevented any of them ever being able to offer to the rest of the world anything even approaching a promise of the universal happiness that is so desired . |
| 18 | That had held me back from being able to grow into a woman really . |
| 19 | There are types of language use which demand the ability to formulate grammatical , correctly bounded sentences , and being able to exploit the formal sentence grammar is one of the most important elements in being able to communicate in a language . |
| 20 | It is a fact of life , however , that membership by graduation is not mandatory before being able to work in the credit management profession , unlike accountants and others . |
| 21 | Closest to Kathleen 's heart is the dream of one day being able to walk down the road with her son , his bare hand in hers . |
| 22 | The loyalty and discipline of the Khmer Rouge troops springs from something much deeper — the pride of the warrior in being able to survive in the forest , fighting against foreign enemies . |
| 23 | Yet being able to step off the treadmill and stop judging yourself for a while is the only way to begin to take stock and to start to unwind from the stress spiral . |
| 24 | being able to get to a room where there is a bath/shower , toilet and wash basin and be able to use them , |
| 25 | that at people being able to get into a car and never driven before and be allowed out onto a highway ! |
| 26 | being able to get into a room that can be used as a bedroom , either upstairs or downstairs , |
| 27 | being able to get into a living room , or main family room , |
| 28 | Most of all she did n't like being too far from town to join a Brownie Guide Pack — and even now , when she looked like being able to get into the town , she could n't join the Brownie Pack ! |
| 29 | The story goes that it was a very merry party — maybe they were celebrating being able to get in the hay after a bad spell — and they stepped on the bridge to enjoy some music , a very Tallentire thing to do . |
| 30 | Most people er recognise that er being able to park in a space in a busy street is an important part of driving , and the surprise is really that it 's never been part of the test before . |