Example sentences of "[being] able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British historians are especially fortunate in being able to draw on the oldest tradition of popular autobiography in the world . |
| 2 | ‘ One of the most difficult matches we have ever been asked to play , ’ confided Sir Alf Ramsey in June , 1973 , his apprehension understandable despite being able to call upon the vast experience of Bobby Moore , Alan Ball and Martin Peters . |
| 3 | Camdessus made a brief visit to Buenos Aires on Nov. 27 to discuss the possibility of the IMF making a loan of US$3,000 million as a preliminary step to Argentina being able to participate in the US-sponsored Brady Plan for Third-World debt reduction ( introduced in March 1989 — see pp. 36541-42 ) . |
| 4 | But they do n't speak any English , I do n't speak any Arabic , so I 'm gesturing away about the bar-tailed lark and not being able to go into the forbidden zone , and somehow or other the leader understands what I 'm going on about and makes me understand that because they 're nomads they do n't have to follow international boundaries . |
| 5 | Brazil , on the other hand , has combined export subsidies with other regulations to force firms to develop exports and add a greater net contribution to the balance-of-payments as the price for being able to sell in the huge internal market . |
| 6 | We have a population which has benefited from being able to tap into a wide and diverse range of information through the printed word . |
| 7 | A kick should never be attempted if there is any risk of not being able to return to a solid stance in time to parry a counter-attack . |
| 8 | However , the organizational advantages of being able to sample at a regular interval are so considerable that such anxieties are often set aside . |
| 9 | Being able to rely upon the full support of all the ministers — especially Cabinet ministers — was obviously a further strength not available to Heseltine . |
| 10 | cut in defence expenditure , which means that there is not the slightest chance of his being able to pay for the extra boat . |
| 11 | Liz Scott-Gibson , who is now director of sign language services for the BDA , subsequently went to Kensington Palace to teach the Princess ; and on a later visit , to a school in Durham , Diana surprised everyone by being able to communicate to the deaf people she met without an interpreter . |
| 12 | The acquisition of such a firm by a larger firm with expansion in mind has the advantage to the latter over the opening up of a new branch office of being able to start with an existing client base . |
| 13 | Since the majority of heads of schools and teachers inherit the school and the class or specialist rooms in which they work with their pupils , they are seldom in the happy position of being able to contribute to the initial planning of buildings , and consequently their interest may well be centred on adaptations or changes that they can realistically effect , although an appreciation of the more fundamental issues of design and planning may concern them too . |
| 14 | The importance of disabled people being able to integrate into a wide range of leisure facilities in the community was recognised . |
| 15 | They will not stop a single person who is not in one of those categories from being able to qualify for the single person household discount . |
| 16 | Was there any sense that er you were in fact being put in the same position as your parents had been your your grandparents , had been in in in the sense not being able to get above a certain level by having your wages your bonus cut ? |
| 17 | It will be argued here that the above-noted tendency of the infinitival construction to imply greater subjectivity and possibility of doubt indicates that know is being evoked not just as the state of " being aware of a fact " in these uses but also as the condition for being able to attribute to the direct object of know the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 18 | In addition , the safety net of being able to dispose of an ill-targeted acquisition or a business that becomes non-core as a result of an acquisition may not exist when times are hard . |