Example sentences of "was able [verb] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the pains were returning but 4 weeks after Arg Nit LM2 she was able to say that the digestive symptoms had been negligible . |
| 2 | By the time of the Fair Wages Committee of 1908 , T. E. Naylor of the LSC was able to report that the only " serious competition " between men and women compositors outside Scotland was in " Reading , possibly Dunstable , Wolverton , Bushey and Maidenhead " . |
| 3 | Commenting at a later stage on the commonly held expectation that London should lead developments in medicine , the Hampstead DGM was able to report that the Royal Free had ‘ in many ways been very successful in maintaining and consolidating its position ’ . |
| 4 | No sir , it , I could n't remember but erm I 'm not surprised er between I was able to ascertain that the two were known to each other . |
| 5 | He was able to ensure that the strong anti-natalist movement penetrated the highest offices of state and was responsible for enormous sums being spent in US foreign aid thereafter ( Simon 1981 ; Warwick 1982 ) . |