Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] be able [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your GP may be able to off out-of-work-hours cervical screening and you should ask your employer about workplace screening or getting the necessary time off to have it done . |
| 2 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 3 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 4 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 5 | It looked as though at least some progress in that experiment might be able to be made soon . |
| 6 | The editor must be able to : |
| 7 | Not exactly Cordon bleu ! — but easy , adequate , and not too expensive , and no doubt you and your elderly parent would be able between you to work out many alternatives to these suggestions . |
| 8 | Processing work will be able to be farmed out to networked Unix-based machines from the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Silicon Graphics Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co , even IBM mainframes running AIX/ESA will be able to join the melting-pot . |
| 9 | Now then I was going to ask one simple question and that is , has anyone thought about keep sending postcards to people , er if the , erm reply is going to be delayed in any way , because at least then the person if there 's sufficiently good reference will be able to , phone up and say look you know , yes I 'm not happy , it seems to me that that would be a way forward on that , erm . |
| 10 | In seeking an answer to this question one can not but be influenced by a thought expressed by Lamont J. , speaking for the majority of the Supreme Court of Canada in Montreal Tramways v. Leveille where , for the first time , it was accepted in a superior court that an infant plaintiff should be able after birth to recover damages for pre-natal injuries . |
| 11 | Erm , my husband might be able to . |
| 12 | For the first time colleagues , the community will be able to legitimately address these issues and initiate action into ensuring the E C is a people 's Europe and not just a business Europe . |
| 13 | The question sometimes arises whether in fact the plaintiff will be able for the rest of his life to obtain outside the National Health Service the facilities that he requires . |
| 14 | The job , accordingly , is one in which qualities of initiative and the ability to make decisions on the spot are prized — just as a policeman must be able to ‘ handle a situation ’ ( Wilson , 1968:31 ) . |
| 15 | Maybe the assertive person might be able to be more flexible certainly cos he can move between . |
| 16 | At Maastricht , we secured agreement that the European Court will be able to fine any Member State which fails to do so . |
| 17 | However , the grammar must be able to correctly distinguish word hypotheses or the number of paths will grow exponentially . |
| 18 | The chief specification is that corresponding entries from OED and the Supplement should be able to be called up together to the screen or other outputting device . |
| 19 | The student will be able to : |
| 20 | The student will be able to : |
| 21 | However , this implicitly assumes that the investor may be able to reinvest the dividend for the same return at a lower risk than the firm ( or for a higher return for the same risk ) which , given the asymmetry of information , can not be the case unless the firm itself has an inferior investment policy , in which case the investor would be advised to withdraw his or her investment from the firm completely . |
| 22 | At grade C a candidate must be able to ‘ communicate clearly in a substantially accurate manner , making correct and appropriate use of historical terminology ’ , whereas the F grade candidate must do no more than ‘ communicate in an understandable form , and use simple historical terminology ’ . |
| 23 | We might have to , we might be able to get away without having to take the board out , if I if I use the old de- solderer might be able to just hook it out and put the next one in . |
| 24 | The main disadvantage of marginal costing that overheads are not included into product costs although it apparent that if activities classified as overheads were not employed then it is unlikely a firm would be able to satisfactorily produce the products . |
| 25 | This means that a Windows NT workstation will be able to be converted into a multiuser and multitasking host . |
| 26 | He will be no more able to give an explicit account of the methods and skills he has acquired than a master-carpenter will be able to fully describe what lies behind his skills . |
| 27 | Some of the signals are scrambled and , depending on where you live , your aerial will be able to ‘ see ’ some satellites but not others . |
| 28 | You should also bear in mind that it is only once you have reached the end of the road in trying to obtain satisfaction through the Bank 's own complaints system that the Ombudsman will be able to formally consider your complaint . |
| 29 | More common , of course , is the situation where the media is in possession of material which it knows the Attorney-General would be able to injunct ( normally on grounds of breach of confidence ) but would be unlikely to pursue once it had been published . |
| 30 | I 'm sure sergeant will be able to . . |