Example sentences of "be able [verb] some " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Classical , Pavlovian conditioning is useful to the animal when it needs to be able to anticipate some repeatedly occurring change in its environment . |
| 32 | He had a clear , incisive mind and might be able to blow some of the cobwebs away so that she knew what to say to Amsterdam when the time came . |
| 33 | They type of support offered depends very much on the people involved but the supporter is often a listen ear who may also be able to give some practical help with the new baby . |
| 34 | The type of support offered depends very much on the people involved but the supporter is often a listening ear who may also be able to give some practical help with the new baby . |
| 35 | At least I 'll have to be able to give some reason why I suspected him . ’ |
| 36 | I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister will be able to give some commitment to that this evening . |
| 37 | In an industrial situation , for instance , the witness can often give helpful corroborative evidence as to the process of the machinery involved in the accident , and might be able to give some useful suggestions about previous complaints and the personalities of the parties involved . |
| 38 | I hope that we will be able to give some protection to people like James , people who are in a very weak position . |
| 39 | The few people left that Intel Corp has n't non-disclosed about the P5 will be able to glean some details at next months Hot Chips Conference in California : the P5 will be previewed and presentations made on Alpha , a 200-MFLOPS PA-RISC , HyperSparc , the ARM 600 , something that looks like Sun 's Tsunami and LSI 's single-chip 33020 X terminal controller . |
| 40 | Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit . |
| 41 | I see no problem in your raising this at Whitley , but I hope I may be able to answer some of your specific points in advance , without in any way prejudicing your right to raise this in Committee . |
| 42 | If you have made too few contributions to qualify for the basic pension , you may be able to use some of your ex-husband 's contribution record to build up your pension to the full amount . |
| 43 | The government , I , I find it somewhat disappointing that having put in what I think was an extremely good bid , I think having had that bid accepted at the first stage by government on their shortlist , having then had the bid accepted by the European Union , with the populations really that we submitted to them , we now find that U K government are actually trying trade back some of that population , and , and area coverage of the bid , to be able to use some of that spare capacity which they would generate within the U K , within the European population figure elsewhere within the country . |
| 44 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 45 | It 's easy to combine sightseeing with shopping and you wo n't be able to resist some last-minute Christmas bargains as there is no sales tax to pay on purchases under £120 . |
| 46 | In that way , the flowers will be at their best for pressing , and you will still be able to enjoy some of the bouquet as fresh flowers . |
| 47 | It is suggested that there must usually be a special element in the employee/connection contact which creates a reasonable risk that the employee will be able to appropriate some part of the business when he leaves because of the chance that customers would seek him out on account of his knowledge of their requirements . |
| 48 | So , where appropriate , we are pleased to be able to relieve some of that burden by paying tuition and examination fees , and helping towards books and maybe any special materials . |
| 49 | The widget-making company may increase the amount it pays the remaining workers ; it may reduce the price of widgets ( or not increase it as fast as prices in general rise ) ; and it may be able to retain some of the saving as increased profits . |
| 50 | the other option of course is not to do that and to try and gain some experience erm m maybe voluntary for some of the time so that maybe I can then spend you know in another years time get a job which is a bit more relevant and I 'll be able to earn some money . |
| 51 | Brave words , but Horgan will be able to put some distance between himself and the pitch . |
| 52 | But two new devices now available mean they will soon be able to put some distance between them and the chemical . |
| 53 | Well we might be able to put some in a wheelie bin |
| 54 | Mozart had every reason to suspect that he would be able to gain some sort of appointment there . |
| 55 | Clayson ( para. 15.05 ) was of the view that small voluntary organisations should be able to supply alcoholic liquor at functions without having to find a willing certificate-holder , and should be able to gain some financial benefit from the sale of liquor to members . |
| 56 | As part of Osborne and Richard Demarco 's Sarajevo-Edinburgh project to bring contemporary artworks out of Sarajevo , Scots will be able to gain some insight into life in the city when these works are exhibited in Edinburgh in the spring . |
| 57 | So if you have young children you might be able to make some garments and take them to the Play Group — if the leader will let you ! |
| 58 | Clearly , each such area ought to be able to make some contribution to analysing George and Marie 's problems . |
| 59 | What you 're trying to do is indicate to them how best you might be able to work your way through those controversies to be able to make some statement of policy or some recommendation and the like … . |
| 60 | With a certain amount of care he may be able to resettle some of the monies which have been paid out to him . |