Example sentences of "be able [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look forward to the time when you rocking horse is all finished and you will be able to stand back and watch your children or grandchildren happily riding this beautiful heirloom that you have created , and you will be able to say with pride and satisfaction , ‘ I made that . ’ |
| 2 | Only if you do that will you be able to say with confidence that I am wrong , that what I am suggesting has not yet come to pass , that there is still time . |
| 3 | The forensic serologist will be able to say with certainty where the blood came from , even with a dried stain . |
| 4 | When we are dealing with the structure plan for which there is no local plan in force , we have a new problem which is that , owing to the diagrammatic nature of the plans , no one will be able to say with certainty that this does or does not affect the claimant 's property , but that nevertheless , because of that very uncertainty , a wider number of properties may be affected . |
| 5 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 6 | Epictetus said , ‘ This is what I wish to be engaged in when death finds me , so that I may be able to say to God , ‘ Have I in any respect transgressed Thy commands ? |
| 7 | ‘ Ian is going to do my farm work , such as it is , but I 'll be sorry not to be able to attend to Mr Jarvis 's pigs . ’ |
| 8 | Alternatively , for around £2,000 , existing Deskpro/M users will be able to upgrade to Pentium . |
| 9 | Therefore if an SAA program wants to talk to a Unix sockets-based program , it ca n't — however two SAA programs will be able to talk over TCP/IP and two Unix applications will be able to communicate over an SNA network . |
| 10 | What I need to do is to go through them with you and make sure you fully understand what they what their origins are etcetera because isomers we base the questions are very very common so I 'll be able to talk about marks . |
| 11 | There was also no lack of contacts , who , starved of literature , were exhilarated to be able to talk about Eliot : a Captain Richardson , whom I met in Eritrea , engaged to a charming Italian , proved one of those contacts whom the war brought together and separated , reminding me in some ways of the young Eliot and Jean Verdenal . |
| 12 | Sales Desk staff would be able to talk to customers and simultaneously operate a VDU obtaining instant information . |
| 13 | We carry a little small radio that 's the local one so anyone in Harlow carrying a radio would be able to talk to Harlow police station , yeah ? |
| 14 | All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly . |
| 15 | ‘ They 've got to be able to talk to workmen , and get things done during pollutions — find things out . |
| 16 | You 've got to be able to talk to people on their own level , you get the best out of people if you treat them a certain way . |
| 17 | If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information . |
| 18 | So you 've got to be able to talk to people . |
| 19 | IBM Corp is still not ready with a full scale disk array for its mainframes , but next week , the company is expected to come out with the new 3390-9 disk drives , offering three times the capacity of the 3390-3 — could be as much as 60Gb on the As , 100Gb on the Bs ( CI No 2,046 ) — but they will be somewhat slower than the existing ones : a new 3990 controller that will be able to talk to disks that do not exist yet is expected to follow later , probably in the autumn . |
| 20 | The idea is that a user of Ardis , presently the largest wireless network and equally owned by Motorola and IBM Corp , would for example be able to talk to RAM Mobile Data users , says Reuter . |
| 21 | I want to be able to sit with friends around a dinner table and not think about what I am doing . |
| 22 | To be able to sit in silence with his father , without any need to make conversation — so relaxed together that he can sit there licking his finger and wiping marks off the telephone ! |
| 23 | The general or ‘ philosophical ’ curriculum that I advocate would be based on a single principle : that the less narrowly a child 's critical faculties are confined within the bounds of a single set of concepts or procedures , the more easily he will be able to adapt to life after school , whether at work or in higher education , and the more free his imagination will become ; these two targets in fact being one and the same . |
| 24 | However , since access to lexical items appears to be at least partly an automatic process in which words are accessed as a result of unplanned factors ( such as prior mention by the present speaker or an earlier speaker ) , it seems plausible to suggest that the production system should be able to adapt in order to incorporate automatically accessed lexical items into current constituents . |
| 25 | The implementation of the National Health Service Act will give further encouragement to the private sector since private health care companies will be able to bid for District Health Authority contracts , and for the provision of clinical services to the patients of GPs who are managing their own budgets . |
| 26 | Outstanding institutions like Napier will soon be able to confer its own degrees and from September Napier 's students will be able to claim with pride , on completing their courses , that they are graduates from Napier University . ’ |
| 27 | The walk meant he would be able to claim in future that he had promenaded on the Promenade des Anglais . |
| 28 | Therefore providers ought to be able to agree to contracts for these services at a lower price . |
| 29 | With half the workforce already paying contributions to a private pension scheme , a growing number of old folks will be able to draw on pensions from their employers . |
| 30 | It will be able to draw on material and expertise from Murdoch 's American TV Guide , which has a stranglehold on the US market . |