Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions which had no real purpose in the first place are unlikely to be easy to analyse at the answer stage since the researcher is seeking for answers to his hypotheses which will show whether they are to be substantiated or not . |
| 2 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 3 | Maybe she was just waiting for a chance to go abroad and wanted to be ready to leave at any time . |
| 4 | To be ready to work at all times . |
| 5 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 6 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 7 | What he did not repeat was a signal from Gen Keightley in Austria , sent on 10 May [ KP 59 ] , in which Keightley had specifically requested permission " to be able to shoot at Yugoslavs who categorically disobey orders from British commanders . " |
| 8 | It is also helpful to be able to refer at any time to a ‘ map ’ of the pathways followed and nodes visited in the course of a particular trip through ‘ hyperspace ’ . |
| 9 | But the right balance is not something which partners should expect to be able to settle at the outset in such a way as will necessarily be appropriate throughout the life of the firm . |
| 10 | ( You ought to be able to deduce at least five . |
| 11 | I would say that they ought to be able to spend at a level which is within the S S As that have been given both for the county and for the districts , and therefore we should be below the three hundred and seventy eight . |
| 12 | If you really enjoy cooking you will probably want to be able to take at least some meals in the kitchen and to have as much space as possible for herbs , spices , pots and pans , cook books and all the other impedimenta collected by the keen cook , quite apart from generous food storage and good kitchen aids . |
| 13 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 14 | A defence spokesman said : ‘ We are glad to be able to confirm at the request of the United States that the UK will participate in the operation . ’ |
| 15 | For evidently we need both reflexive and non-reflexive polyadic predicates , as well as monadic predicates , if we are to be able to describe at all adequately the world around us . |
| 16 | I would like to be able to find at least an oddment of eroticism . |
| 17 | I ca n't say I know all about it either ; but I do know enough to be able to tell at least some of the truth about why and how we tell , i.e. communicate , the truth . |
| 18 | In the base camp , 12,000ft below the summit , equipment has to be able to work at -20°C inside tents and — 40°C outside . |
| 19 | I was not familiar enough , yet , with the light nights of the Highlands to be able to guess at the time , but the sky was paler , and the stars were fading . |
| 20 | What we are saying is , the patient ought to be able to determine at any stage of their illness what care they receive , and they ought to know what is coming next . |
| 21 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 22 | I , and they , would agree , but such ladies have to be able to play at the weekend . |
| 23 | Remember the one thing about a game show , I do make a lot of them , is you have to be able to play at home . |
| 24 | Remember the one thing about a game show , I do make a lot of them , is you have to be able to play at home . |
| 25 | This species circles the porcupine like a mongoose dealing with a cobra , and confuses it enough to be able to strike at its only vulnerable zone — its head . |
| 26 | While the nuclear power of the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) would always be dwarfed by that of the United States , Britain needed to be able to strike at Soviet targets of prime importance to herself . |
| 27 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 28 | It was a relief to be able to look at objects in depth again after the hypnotic closeness of the walls and the limited view from my room . |
| 29 | Although these findings were considered in the context of differential hemispheric activation , they might more parsimoniously be thought to reflect no more than the fact that people wish to be able to look at a blackboard in the middle of the room . |
| 30 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |