Example sentences of "was able [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems unreasonable that with respect to the United States Nicaragua was able to claim invalidity of the 1914 treaty and not be liable for non-performance . |
| 2 | For example , he was able to reconcile membership of the Church of England ( rather High ) with belonging to such occult groups as the Order of the Golden Dawn . |
| 3 | Originally England could supply the necessary quantities of corn from its own surplus , and later it was able to re-export corn from the Baltic , which was one of the major granaries for the lands of western Europe in the late Middle Ages . |
| 4 | while Labour under Clement Attlee was able to wield influence in the coalition government . |
| 5 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 6 | It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard . |
| 7 | In Mexico , the private sector was able to take advantage of the new seeds , but the peasants on ejido land , often unable to get credit and farming for the first three years without fertilisers were not so productive . |
| 8 | One researcher was Ignaty Steletsky , who in the 1920s was able to take advantage of the fact that the Moscow Underground was being built . |
| 9 | Newton was able to take advantage of the work of Galileo , Kepler and others to construct that comprehensive physics that he published in his Principia in 1687 . |
| 10 | Though some of the original contributions by Sir George Grove [ q.v. ] were still retained , Blom was able to take account of the huge expansion of musical scholarship and history that had occurred during the preceding quarter of a century . |
| 11 | As we saw in Chapter Three it was able to give voice to the fears of many concerning the supposed breakdown in moral standards , they equated economic decline with moral weakness and established hegemonic control by focusing on the breakdown of law and order . |
| 12 | Perhaps , if one was able to give advice to the Prime Minister on the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury , it might be : Take your own soundings and make your own recommendation to the Queen . |
| 13 | His brother , who succeeded him as the Emperor Leopold II , was able to restore peace in the disturbed areas only by a skilful mixture of force and concessions . |
| 14 | Within the Labour League of Youth the YCL was able to maintain contact with the membership and the National Advisory Committee , particularly through the influence of Ted Willis and the Advance group . |
| 15 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |
| 16 | I had reached Adrar , so I was able to accept help from the lads . |
| 17 | Eventually , the Tory ministry elected after 1710 was able to secure peace with the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 . |
| 18 | It must be regarded as extremely probable that Oswiu was able to seek help in the confrontation with Penda not only from the Scots but also from the Picts , possibly even from the Irish ( see also below , p. 99 ) . |
| 19 | Christine 's former boy-friend Robert Broxup called for an inquiry into how the youngster was able to get hold of the acid . |
| 20 | Many FDP members had not wanted to save ‘ the old man ’ at all , but Adenauer was able to threaten Mende with the idea of a ‘ Grand Coalition ’ , that is a coalition between the CDU and SPD , such as was being canvassed by moderates in both main parties . |
| 21 | But this would make nonsense of events at the end of April , when Gloucester was able to seize possession of the prince from an unsuspecting earl Rivers . |
| 22 | But this would make nonsense of events at the end of April , when Gloucester was able to seize possession of the prince from an unsuspecting earl Rivers . |
| 23 | Claiming a widespread dissatisfaction with the quality of education being provided by LEA schools , and promising greater opportunities for parent power to preserve local accountability , it was able to seize control over the curriculum with considerable public support . |
| 24 | By November of the year 655 or 656 — Bede gives 655 ( HE 111 , 24 ) but again this date may need to be emended in the same way as Bede 's other Northumbrian dates ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) — Penda was able to challenge Oswiu at the battle of the Winwaed with a mighty coalition , for he had spent the intervening thirteen years consolidating his position . |
| 25 | The British polymath Thomas Young ( 1773–1829 ) , using the fact that the name of Ptolemy appeared several times , was able to decipher part of the hieroglyphics . |
| 26 | Even with the support of Meretz and the five Arab seats , of which Hadash took three and the Arab Democratic Party ( ADP ) two , this would give Labour and its supporters only a one-seat majority unless Rabin was able to gain support among the 16 religious party Knesset members . |
| 27 | Sir Philip Sidney 's claim in The Defence of Poetry that poetry was the consequence of art , imitation , and exercise may stand as much as an observation about who was able to produce poetry during the Renaissance as how it should be produced . |