Example sentences of "[adv] be able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option , but you will only be able to respond to task mail which is outstanding for you . |
| 2 | ‘ If we did not , we would lose all continuity with our past , would only be able to live from moment to moment like butterflies alighting and flitting away , and no relationship or experience could have any permanent value for us . |
| 3 | The two countries now have the right to dump such material after 2007 , but they have undertaken to give serious consideration to finding land-based alternatives in the meantime and will only be able to dump after consultation with the other signatory states and in accordance with the " no-harm " principle . |
| 4 | A century later John Murray , the British ambassador in Constantinople , bitterly regretted that in 1774 he had not been able to act as mediator in the making of the Russo-Turkish peace of Kutchuk — Kainardji and thus gain the valuable presents from both sides which would have been his reward . |
| 5 | Manuel had not been able to improve on par the first day but everyone knew he was capable of making up a lot of leeway with one of his famous ‘ charges . ’ |
| 6 | For Hardy , who had written in a letter to Thomas Macquoid , ‘ I am glad you like Tess — though I have not been able to put on paper all that she is , or was , to me ’ , it was ‘ the beginning of the end of his career as a novelist ’ . |
| 7 | Mr McGregor still suffers from a reduced function in his arms and has not been able to return to work . |
| 8 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 9 | But , so far , at any rate , he had not been able to get beyond page 12 . |
| 10 | Lawyer Mark Scoggins advises some of our biggest insurance companies on workplace liabilities , he believes workers could soon be able to sue for stress damage , costing British firms and their insurers , millions . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I might just be able to totter from chair to chair , ’ she said , smiling sweetly at him . |
| 12 | Thus , without prior agreement , they may not disclose confidential information to their backers as this could damage the business of the company and affect the price which the vendors may be able to obtain for their shares ; they may not be able to vote at board meetings on major issues affecting the company if those issues might adversely affect a possible management buy-out ; and they can not involve any of their colleagues in the buy-out or persuade staff to become involved . |
| 13 | As long as there is a good reason why you will not be able to vote in person on election day you can apply to vote by post or proxy . |
| 14 | Ask the electoral registration officer for an application form ( RPF9 ) as soon as an election has been announced and you know that you will not be able to vote in person . |
| 15 | If there are few good journals in a specialty , editors may not be able to publish during tenure unless some mechanism can be found to allow for this eventuality . |
| 16 | We have already seen that you will not be able to rely upon employment law rights if , in reality , you are not an employee or if your contract is unenforceable , as when it involves an element of illegality . |
| 17 | Dear Steve Racist Liar Prat , your theft of my copyrights and your brief ‘ celebration ’ of your ‘ scoop ’ , which you paraded to your fellow racist crooks at my expense , has been noted and you shall be , believe me , very sorry that you sought to persist in gloating in your backward , immoral capacity to confect racist lies on the assumption that I shall not be able to retaliate in kind . |
| 18 | recommendations happy with them , is there any reason why we 'll not be able to proceed without delay . |
| 19 | Equally the buyer will not be able to sue for non-delivery unless he was ready and willing to pay or else it had been agreed that he could have credit . |
| 20 | It follows therefore , that a fireman fighting a fire at a factory which is not his place of employment , will not be able to sue for breach of such a statutory duty ( Hartley v Mayoh & Co [ 1954 ] 1 QB 383 ) . |
| 21 | We 'll not be able to break with tradition . |
| 22 | thumped this girl back , he says and I told him he will not be able to stay at school for dinner |
| 23 | After that time any light emitted from the star would not be able to escape to infinity but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 24 | As earn outs are based on future performance and are only payable in the future , they enable the purchaser to agree to a price it may not be able to afford at completion and which it will not be obliged to pay unless profits are generated . |
| 25 | No , I 'm just trying to work out how long I 'm gon na be practising for West Side Story tomorrow because you might have to take my money my pocket money tomorrow I might not be able to get like home , sort of cos er I I might be practising till bloody six o'clock for all I know so I 'll get some chips or something . |
| 26 | Right , and you simply may not be able to switch into milk production or horticulture , because you do n't have the technological know-how , or the soil may be inappropriate , the climate may be inappropriate , right , so that 's another factor , influencing , well making er , supply quite rigid , quite inflexible in , in the short run . |
| 27 | This method would mean prevention of development which was definitely unsound upon recognised objective standards , and the community would still be able to engage in amenity planning under the salutary control of paying for any economic value destroyed . |
| 28 | Anybody who earns between £12 and £43 in a given week may still be able to qualify for unemployment benefit on the days they are not working . |
| 29 | Anybody who earns between £12 and £43 in a given week may still be able to qualify for unemployment benefit on the days they are not working . |
| 30 | Anybody who earns between £12 and £43 in a given week may still be able to qualify for unemployment benefit on the days they are not working . |