Example sentences of "[being] able [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His self-assurance comes out now in his attitude to school work : ‘ I did not like not being able to answer a question , particularly if another boy could ’ . |
| 2 | Ah erm well , Chairman , I I think that this is something that 's going to cut , as far as Hambledon 's got concerns , is going to come up in the erm in the next debate , certainly , erm , the erm , the issue of erm whether policy should be expressed in terms of principle and criteria , or erm area and a district as being a dilemma erm to Hambledon , erm , it feels it 's erm erm not being able to support the policy as defined , because ultimately the Council would object to a new settlement in Hambledon . |
| 3 | It 's wonderful to see the body of Christ mobilised to the lost in a local Church outreach setting and being able to facilitate the challenge . |
| 4 | This outcome , in turn , gave the Labour Party the double advantages of being able to choose the date of the next election and of going into it with the prestige of being the government . |
| 5 | Wilson had employed a lawyer who , according to Simon Draper , was ‘ well known in the record industry for never being able to conclude an agreement ’ . |
| 6 | Erm , that carried on for a while , I thought I was doing very very well , being able to do a job like that . |
| 7 | see him being able to do the work . |
| 8 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 9 | I do not think come this weekend either that we will have any worries about being able to last the pace , ’ he asserted . |
| 10 | This time , without even the zest of being able to assess the success of his recipes from the quantities consumed or left on plates , it seemed to Auguste a sorry place indeed . |
| 11 | The Pontiac crouched for a whole foot lower than it did before , and General Motors shareholders were beginning to complain at annual meetings of bumping their heads or not being able to wear a hat in a Buick . |
| 12 | and me not being able to say the word basically |
| 13 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 14 | Thanks to Ma really , he thought , and grinned , thanks to her fall and not being able to manage the washing herself . |
| 15 | If the thresholds from logogen system to cognitive system were sometimes or always lower than the thresholds from logogen system to cognitive system , one could then explain subception ( gaining access to the meaning of a word without being able to report the word ) and also semantic errors which occur in the condition known as deep dyslexia in which single printed words are often incorrectly read as semantically related words , e.g. reading storm as thunder . |
| 16 | Pride is often a fear of not being able to sustain a success . |
| 17 | Fancy being able to dismiss an incident like that ! ’ |
| 18 | While this reform may seem small in itself , it will play an important part in the overall strategy being advocated here of people being able to draw an income from work , wealth , as well as welfare . |
| 19 | This minor disadvantage to the tenant does not outweigh the advantage to the tenant in being able to initiate the determination of the rent . |
| 20 | Provided that all the members comply with each Compulsory Sale Notice , the Seller shall sell the Selling Shares to the Proposed Purchaser on Completion , subject at all times to the Seller being able to withdraw the Selling Notice at any time prior to Completion by giving notice to the Company to that effect , whereupon each Compulsory Transfer Notice shall cease to have effect . |
| 21 | They now have to ballot their members before being able to call a strike . |
| 22 | Being able to machine knit gives no indication of the personality of the worker , in the same way that being able to drive a car shows very little about the actual driver . |
| 23 | ‘ But there is a huge difference between making a recovery , and being able to drive a Formula One car at 200mph . ’ |
| 24 | The owners of such land may be unaware that circumstances have changed and the developer may have the edge in being able to acquire the site . |
| 25 | But being able to mend the lift does not get you to the top in merchant banking . |
| 26 | The cup is drunk as a symbol of joy at being able to celebrate the meal once again . |
| 27 | I am personally seduced by the prospect of the Crown and the defence being able to agree a sentence prior to a plea , especially in the case of large complex fraud trials . |
| 28 | Although Carolyn Atkinson ca n't use Textcall because she communicates by sign language , she says it will help many others.She knows all too well how frustrating not being able to use a phone is : |
| 29 | One is obviously , being able to use the calculator . |
| 30 | " I was quite amazed at her being able to use the terminology that suited the Salvation Army . |