Example sentences of "be able [to-vb] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all our inns we have plenty of ale , beer and sundry kinds of wine and such is the capacity of some of these that they are able to lodge two hundred or three hundred persons and their horses . |
| 2 | But then why me to be able to do four four Q P R ? |
| 3 | You should be able to answer these two questions : |
| 4 | Gulfstream claims that with a single fuel stop a GV will be able to link any two capitals or business centres across the world . |
| 5 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 6 | The Norton Antivirus can detect all the common viruses in the field , but while version 2.1 might claim to be able to detect all 1,400 viruses known to the NCSA , it still ca n't detect many old , well-known , ‘ laboratory ’ viruses such as Pogue , Starship , Slovakia or Slovakia-2 . |
| 7 | Neither of the ewes will be able to rear all four offspring themselves , but will be left with one or two while the others are fostered … |
| 8 | Must an item be able to fulfil all four functions of money to be able to be classed as money ? |
| 9 | The pipeline system will be able to handle 1 million b/d once upgrading of the system and Kinneil expansion works are completed . |
| 10 | How many people today would be able to walk six thousand miles ? |
| 11 | If we 're talking about using this sy er type of system for running mission critical systems where if the database goes down the business stops running and starts losing money , then we need to be able to run twenty four hours a day seven days a week . |
| 12 | It is expected that a lexicographer should be able to process some 75 entries a day doing trivial editing tasks and between 10 and 12 entries a day resolving complex editorial tasks . |
| 13 | So we , we , we 're still working to middle peasants being able to earn twenty five or thirty percent of their income from exploitation , either hired labour or renting out land and we wo n't touch it at all . |
| 14 | Nevertheless he is one of the few batsmen available to South Africa who has a proven record of being able to put big hundreds together and this is a prime requirement for Test match cricket . |
| 15 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 16 | A Commission survey has shown that walkers have only a one-in-3 chance of being able to complete any 2 mile walk . |
| 17 | Trollope possessed the skill of being able to portray these three very different women , Madeline Vesey Neroni , Mrs. Proudie and Mrs. Crawley , in such a way that makes the reader feel on intimate terms with each of them . |
| 18 | In fact the chances of being able to fire all nine barrels are slim , as the weapon is likely to misfire first . |
| 19 | Writers like Virgil , Cato and Pliny were able to list two dozen varieties of apple . |
| 20 | Not having to pick their way carefully now they were able to cover some thirty hilly miles that day , good going for so large a party of horse , even mosstroopers . |
| 21 | With it some people were able to identify any one of 120 sentences . |
| 22 | If therefore , the well-being of a state consists in the mature well-being of the people , a country is then most flourishing when the largest proportion of its population is able to satisfy these two natural desires . |
| 23 | But our God wants His church to be a place where the Holy Spirit is able to increase those three , steadily and thoroughly , and so we can pray with Paul : |
| 24 | So I was able to release these two successfully , and had the satisfaction of knowing that they approved of the site I 'd chosen . |
| 25 | In the case of the trapped cat , my neighbour was able to obey all four maxims at once , and on the assumption that all four were in operation , I was able to correctly interpret what she said . |
| 26 | He went on to obtain plates centred on about 1300 selected areas scattered uniformly over 75 per cent of the whole sky , on which he was able to recognise some 44000 galaxies down to apparent magnitude about 20 . |