Example sentences of "was able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having made the Hannover picture I thought it would be nice to have a smaller version , so I now have a two-metre square version on canvas , also painted with Scanachrome , and I am working on the area of the television screen in a more painterly manner than I was able to use on the large one . |
| 2 | He told me about Piero della Francesca 's mysterious Flagellation in the Ducal palace in Urbino , and he said that it was ‘ probably the greatest small picture in the world ’ , a line which I was able to use in a novel set in Tuscany . |
| 3 | Rolls Royce Motors was able to continue as a successful company when the parent company went bankrupt ( restructuring had to take place at this point with government help ) . |
| 4 | Although initially research was often focused upon a single pollen site , the subsequent research was able to proceed towards the regional assessment of past vegetation not only in Britain but also in overseas areas such as the tropical rain forest ( Flenley , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place . |
| 6 | When Dustin heard news of the ensuing blaze , he rushed back to the scene , and was able to push through the gaping crowds to pull three of his modern paintings and a Tiffany lampshade from the smoke-filled Federal-style building , before the police prevented him from re-entering the house . |
| 7 | It is reported that on discharge from hospital on the thirty-sixth postoperative day " he appeared to have perfectly normal powers of comprehension of the spoken word " and was able to refer to the medical and nursing staff by name . |
| 8 | When the new class of bourgeois manufacturers and traders arose in the nineteenth century , it was able to merge with the commercialised aristocracy through marriage , and through the newly reformed public schools and universities . |
| 9 | He was able to go to the same home for respite care , at first for two weeks in and six weeks at home , on a rota . |
| 10 | In Britain 's largely black discos and dance-halls , which have always been dependent on mainly recorded music , the role of the DJ or Master of Ceremonies was able to take on a special significance . |
| 11 | Alice Foley remembered that her family was able to move into a better house as soon as her sister started work in the mill . |
| 12 | Having taken a change of clothes and underwear to the beach with her , she was able to put on a fresh dress before tucking the children into bed . |
| 13 | teaching approaches which maintained an often slavish adherence to the textbook , reliance on narrow questions often requiring monosyllabic answers , an inability to follow up and extend pupils ' answers and an over prescriptive method whereby the teacher was able to remain within a constricted , safe pattern of work . |
| 14 | Only the planning department was able to cope with the total analysis of the situation . |
| 15 | The SunAccount software was able to cope with the networked set-up without modification . |
| 16 | Later that summer I was able to turn in a similar review of the main performance of the Sels Floto Circus . |
| 17 | I was able to talk to the German customer and the people on the floor , who are excessively worried about the number of people coming in from the East , not only East Germany but they 're very , very worried about people coming in from Eastern Europe , and secondly there was so much East European food that was for sale in Germany at very low prices and there 's food that used to go to the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | The king of Italy was able to retire from the gaping gaze of the public into his royal waiting-rooms at Milan and Rome stations ; at Hanover Station there was a special royal dining-room for the use of the Kaiser . |
| 19 | In the past , Singapore was able to draw on a ready pool of Malay Chinese to supplement its workforce , but with economies in the whole region growing so rapidly , skilled labour is at a premium and countries are doing all they can to hang on to their brainpower . |
| 20 | owing to its early introduction in 1920 and also because of the substantial extension of its rights in 1952 and 1972 it was able to evolve into the virtual bargaining monopolist on the employees ' side at the plant level , to the extent of being considered by unions as the proper bargaining agent at that level , much more so than in other countries . |
| 21 | And their shared taste for rich cake with coffee late at night restored her faith in their friendship a little , so that when he asked her about her family 's plans for Christmas she was able to answer in a relaxed and natural way . |
| 22 | He , no more than General Christison in Java , was able to operate in a political vacuum but at least the French in Saigon were treated as allies rather than as one-time enemies although , in the absence of sufficient numbers of Frenchmen , Japanese troops were required to fight Vietnamese who , as in Hanoi , were intent on the politics of a fait accompli . |
| 23 | Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way . |
| 24 | By sheer luck , Ron was able to breath in a tiny air-pocket formed by the rapids , until he was finally rescued by the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team , who risked their own lives to save him . |
| 25 | Charman was able to drum on the B-side track , ‘ ( The Moment Before ) Everything 's Spoiled Again ’ . |
| 26 | While the President walked off after delivering his speech someone was able to slip in a pre-built ten-centimetre platform for Mrs Thatcher and Rajiv Gandhi , which was a lot less fuss than having to fiddle around re-adjusting the autocue height . |
| 27 | ‘ I was able to plug into a growing formula which was already successful and so avoid the ‘ learning curve ’ which so often represents the downfall of any new venture , ’ said Mr Singleton . |
| 28 | Hence Paris modernism was able to persist as a vital and radical force . |
| 29 | The book 's central part , represented by " Socrates and Greek Tragedy " , had already been well worked and , apart from some reordering , was left virtually as it was ; the rest required more attention , but on 12 December he was able to send off the final portions of the manuscript , including a new , short , preface to Wagner . " |
| 30 | Radio in Zambia broadcast not only in English but also in seven Zambian languages ; therefore , unlike television and most newspapers , it was able to communicate with a large proportion of the people in their own language or at least in one they could understand . |