Example sentences of "be able [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're able to put up most of them , while the remainder I 've sent round to The Beach Hotel . ’ |
| 2 | Next year I 'll report to the general assembly erm , if all things are equal , that the Board will by then have set up a scheme to allow care workers to go out from our erm residential establishments into the community to extend the kind of professional service that we 're able to give in our establishments to people who live in the community . |
| 3 | Erm and that 's I suppose was the point I was trying to make earlier that al that 's why abusers sometimes find it very easy because they 're able to tap into a lot of the ways in which we treat children um y'know so er |
| 4 | ‘ As long as we 're able to go to the cemetery we will keep an eye on Brian 's grave . ’ |
| 5 | That is why they 're able to go for these very precise figures of public spending , scientific precision about estimates for the years ahead and then say , ‘ All argument hereafter ceases . |
| 6 | What they 're able to do with that money this year and in that way we can make a reasonable assessment as to what has to be done next year and the years after and budget all , but we 're talking about how they 're going to spend the money that we 've just earlier on voted for , for us so that we can see what is being done and also that the public can see because after all this all came up , the report to the ombudsman and the public will not be satisfied about our performance on that . |
| 7 | Erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion , that we 're able to stick to the time that we 've allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that we 've got . |
| 8 | They 're able to share in the joys , they consider the great things that 's happened to them . |
| 9 | You 'll have no seed left before you 're able to get to the shops to buy more . |
| 10 | One of the reasons I think why abuse is very easily erm got away with by people is that um they 're able to bring into play a lot of these a lot of these discourses with which we talk to children to make them behave , to make them er compliant . |
| 11 | Well , certainly this particular piece of work would have been held up , er the salary that we 're able to provide for this young researcher was absol , absolutely essential , and in Great Britain there is an enormous reliance on charitable funding for research , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 12 | one is , as far as I can see , is to do this where we fit , where we 're able to fit in subjects that er we missed , so certainly we 'll fit it in on the , on the later session . |
| 13 | We 're able to travel in style to wherever we want , when we want to and at our own pace . |
| 14 | The appearance which sense-spectra present can be compared with a so-called ‘ dialect continuum ’ : speakers from village A can communicate with those from village B , who are able to converse with speakers from C ; these , in turn , can communicate with speakers from village D. However , speakers from A can not hold a conversation with speakers from D , and without the evidence of the intervening stages , one would be tempted to say that they spoke different languages . |
| 15 | Individuals believe that they are able to perform at the desired level ( effort performance outcome ) . |
| 16 | In other words , we are able to sort of erm to fulfil a role in the opera house which is extremely beneficial to the Continentals . |
| 17 | As in Situation 2 above except that you are able to decide on the selling price yourself . |
| 18 | There is one other point , although erm you know , it 's good that they are in the er areas which the tenants er , live so it 's er not very difficult for tenants to come and see their councillors but er er , there is a difficulty at times when er the er air the housing manager has to ring around to get the er members , who are able to sit on that panel and sometimes that is difficult because we have just three members and sometimes they ca n't all fit in the , whereas when you have a larger group if one member ca n't attend , there 's invariably sufficient there to be able to come to a decision so I think that that 's on the other side of the balance sheet . |
| 19 | This means that even in old age , we are able to recover at least partially from what might look like an incurable condition . |
| 20 | Because observable substances consist of arrangements of insensible corpuscles , they are able to act on each other and on our sense-organs in certain ways . |
| 21 | Other market participants are able to act in a dual capacity . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , we should not lose sight of the fact that even such relatively immature communicators in terms of message evaluation — as the seven-year-olds are able to progress with a substantial degree of success given the opportunity to use their negotiating powers . |
| 23 | As they work with poetry , children are able to reflect on what they know , to extend their understanding and to make new discoveries . |
| 24 | In this way researchers are able to search for direct comparisons between reports and to isolate categories of phenomena . |
| 25 | Such symptoms are far less likely to trouble you if you gradually reduce your intake until you are able to go without the substances altogether . |
| 26 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
| 27 | If the relatives are able to go to the mortuary or viewing room and be with the person who has died for as long as they feel it to be necessary , then they are more able to start absorbing the fact of their loved one 's death , because again they have the evidence in front of them . |
| 28 | We are able to see into the heart of things for other people . |
| 29 | At the other end of the band , many insects , fish and birds are able to see beyond blue into ultraviolet radiation invisible to us . |
| 30 | In fourth year , students are able to choose from a range of different courses which are allied to contemporary issues and research in psychology . |