Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [verb] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you ever get to this wonderful stage of being able to pick your own team , it would be marvellous would n't it ? |
| 2 | then we stand the possibility of being able to influence our own purchasing issues in order to er er to make it happen . |
| 3 | A bit like being able to read your own obituary . ’ |
| 4 | It is unfair , to say the least , in a country that increasingly believes that incentives should be the dominant motive force , that the interaction of taxation rates and benefit eligibility levels should preclude the least privileged from being able to improve their own lot . |
| 5 | You will thus benefit from being able to use your own behaviour as a powerful influence . |
| 6 | Is he giving them advice , along the lines that he described , to ensure that they manage to implement the sensible planning that comes from being able to run their own affairs , as they obviously wish to do ? |
| 7 | He wanted to be able to draw his own conclusions , without Naseby 's helpful commentary . |
| 8 | You 've got to be able to draw your own conclusions , that this was to an extent a personal vendetta . ’ |
| 9 | Now the second problem is that we all value our freedoms and we the greatest thing that we all have in our lives , whether it 's in work , or whether it 's in our marriages or just in our social life , we all value our freedom and initiative , we want to be able to use our own initiative . |
| 10 | The Catalan nationalists want , in particular , to be able to collect their own taxes and then pass on to the central government a share based on the services it provides . |
| 11 | It was even too dark for her to be able to see her own car . |
| 12 | For Israel 's way to be hidden Yahweh could mean that God can not see Israel 's way , or will not see Israel 's way , or has caused Israel not to be able to see its own way . |
| 13 | And I see it as part of my job to help them to be able to judge their own work … |
| 14 | There seemed little if any concern for research into the description of linguistic interaction in the classroom — a particularly sad observation , as this is an area where teachers are well-equipped to find a base for research , and need to be able to monitor their own and others ' performance effectively . |
| 15 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 16 | Mr Vernon Malcolm , managing director of the company which supplies parts for Nissan , said most of his employees were paid at least £3.40 an hour , but he needed to be able to set his own rates of pay rather than having them imposed by government . |
| 17 | They say : It 's a very good idea to be able to pick your own . |
| 18 | Some , primarily because of their educational background , though there will be other causes , are in a position in a business enterprise to be able to define their own roles and will have a determining voice in deciding pay and other rewards and , in general , be able to define the procedures and roles by which others ' work will be done . |
| 19 | Whilst BBCBASIC(Z80) has a large number of predefined functions ( INT and LEN for example ) it is very useful to be able to define your own to do something special . |
| 20 | I like to be able to arrange my own times a bit but that is n't always possible and you 've got to accommodate yourself as well to the needs of the staff . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I wanted to be able to do my own thing — and to be able to play with other people . ’ |
| 22 | Exceedingly self-reliant , each man seemed to be able to do his own thinking and to be purely democratic and independent in his ideas and purposes . |
| 23 | It was rare for the painter to be able to do his own engraving , and conversely few engravers were artists in their own right . |
| 24 | Similarly , within organisations is it not the case that certain groups consistently seem to be able to get their own way ? |
| 25 | Semi-skilled and unskilled workers are much less likely to be able to buy their own house ( 26 per cent of unskilled workers are owner-occupiers , compared with 87 per cent of professional workers ) . |
| 26 | With this kind of warfare going on between nests , the ants need to be able to distinguish their own nestmates from members of other nests . |
| 27 | ‘ I like having him at home , but I also need a day to myself now and again , just to be able to think my own thoughts . ’ |
| 28 | Vernon Malcolm , managing director of Malcolm Engineering , said : ‘ Almost all my staff earn above £3.40 an hour but I need to be able to dictate my own rates of pay . |
| 29 | Well my first reason would be that it 's fun but if you want a justification then all I can say is that it is still useful to be able to produce your own programs that do exactly what you want . |
| 30 | I mean , they 've got to be able to quantify their own work besides yourself . |