Example sentences of "[being] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Positive reinforcement was seen as being due to the presentation of ‘ satisfiers ’ but that is , of course , completely circular without being able to predict in advance what will satisfy an animal . |
| 2 | By far the two most common and important fungal diseases are mildew and black spot , and both arise from microscopically small spores in the air being able to settle on leaf and stem tissue that is unable to offer sufficient resistance to their invasive germination . |
| 3 | From the outset we can see that Freud 's theory , while being sociological in its understanding of individualism as social product , has the advantage over Durkheim 's sociologism in being able to account for creativity and for change in human societies . |
| 4 | O K then that 's right , you go and sit down , get yourself together again , and get back to being able to cope with life . |
| 5 | we were anticipating being able to explain in detail the entire procedure relating to accounting |
| 6 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 7 | They tend not to explore what difference it makes who takes part in the public-policy process , or else they assume that the beneficiaries of public policy can simply be " read-off " from information about group participation because of uncomplicated assumptions about all groups being able to participate in order to advance their own interest . |
| 8 | What a single mother represents may seem touchingly attractive : not having to cook another adult 's meals , or wash his clothes ; being able to go to bed when you want ; being able to go to sleep when you want . |
| 9 | What a single mother represents may seem touchingly attractive : not having to cook another adult 's meals , or wash his clothes ; being able to go to bed when you want ; being able to go to sleep when you want . |
| 10 | By dialling three digits it is possible to call for emergency help from the police , fire and ambulance services in addition to being able to ask for sea mountain or cave rescue . |
| 11 | Sometimes they are told to demonstrate what new recruits ( and the field-worker ) can expect ; on other occasions they are told to illustrate the funny or the tragic sides of policing ; or are used as a vehicle for the story-teller to display some features about him or herself , such as his or her experience and skill and ability in handling all things , and that he or she is professional in being able to talk about horror in a cold and detached manner . |
| 12 | Sickness and disability mean not only varying rates of entitlement to social security benefits for different socio-economic groups but also different possibilities of being able to return to work . |
| 13 | Morbidity was also considerably less , with 37 of 40 ( 93% ) patients having no postoperative discomfort and being able to return to school soon after surgery compared with 16 of 35 ( 46% ) who were circumcised . |
| 14 | In America of course the privilege runs to being able to shoot on sight . |
| 15 | Being able to rely on advice can be invaluable . |
| 16 | One is that the Bill will extend to all consumers in Scotland the option of being able to pay for water by metered charges if they wish , having the amount that they use recorded and being charged direct . |
| 17 | for a site and the carrot is actually being able to apply to designation whether you lived up to that . |
| 18 | It helps to have a high IQ , though I suspect a talent for mimicry is more useful ; being able to adopt at will the tones and attitudes of the educated middle classes . |
| 19 | In Northumberland , half the farmers are tenant farmers and we need a greater supply of land for rent to ensure the continued prosperity of the tenanted sector , with new entrants being able to come into agriculture . |
| 20 | But at least he had the advantage of being able to cut across country . |
| 21 | This can be seen as a kind of intermediate position halfway between the child as a tabula rasa with no innate knowledge of the world and the child being able to speak at birth . |
| 22 | ‘ It means being able to count on time each week to deal with whatever the home priority is . |
| 23 | One of the strengths of an analysis of timing is being able to distinguish between curriculum elements that are likely to require frequent input ( eg items in mathematics ) and items that might be effectively delivered at least in part in an interdisciplinary ‘ project ’ format , ( eg perhaps history or geography or RE ) . |
| 24 | If she was honest , right at this moment she could think of nothing better than being able to collapse into bed , but it had to be alone . |