Example sentences of "be able [to-vb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So busy are international players that they are lucky if they are able to find the time even in summer to tie the knot . |
| 2 | He was used to such things , and he had been able to pass the time by fulfilling an old ambition , to read Edward Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the original English . |
| 3 | When would you be able to devote the time , or the knowledge , to select , as you call it , what is or is not fit to publish ? |
| 4 | Hope was generally busy , but with the three of us I should be able to snatch the time for a letter in the small hours . |
| 5 | Howell has taken up a job in Aberdeen and feels he may no longer be able to spare the time to travel back to Edinburgh each weekend . |
| 6 | The top reporters may not be able to spare the time and you could end up with the story being written by someone rather less familiar with the subject , whereas a quick telephone call or fax could mean that the story gets to the person you want . |
| 7 | Maybe he wo n't be able to spare the time . |
| 8 | I hope that you will be able to spare the time to complete this form . |
| 9 | And , at the end of his busy career , he adds : ‘ It is rather interesting to be able to read The Times and The Northern Echo in the morning instead of at night . ’ |
| 10 | It sounds a lame excuse , I know , but I never seem to be able to find the time . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm going to be able to get the time off . ’ |
| 12 | Be able to tell the time and understand times expressed in terms of 12- and 24-hour clocks . |
| 13 | There is little sign that the government was able to find the time or the inclination to assess sceptically the framework within which balance-of-payments policy was conducted . |