Example sentences of "were able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that even if the government , the TUC and CBI were able to agree on a particular course of development of the national economy ‘ the state and the social partners alike are unable to enforce compliance with such a plan at the micro-level ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 2 | I pointed out the way we had gone about it in 1974 , when we wished to add an item to the ICAO agenda and were able to agree upon a concerted approach by the major European delegations towards achieving our aims . |
| 3 | People wore different clothes , shopped in privately-owned shops and were able to talk with the thousands of foreigners living , working in or touring China . |
| 4 | Thus , like the later Formalists , the Prague School were able to insist on the specific properties of the ‘ poetic ’ text , and at the same time recognize its links with the author and the social context . |
| 5 | After several months ' work , during which time they lived in a caravan parked on the site , the owners , Mr and Mrs Bates were able to move into the future garage area of the building in August 1984 and to continue work on the upper-floor accommodation under the shelter of the reslated roof . |
| 6 | Neither the Swedish nor the Danish navies were able to recover after the Great Northern War ( 1700–21 ) the importance they had enjoyed before its outbreak . |
| 7 | Duchamp-Villon and La Fresnaye were also members of the hanging committee , so that the Cubist painters were able to exhibit for the second time that year as a group . |
| 8 | Once I had discussed the situation with Sylvia and explained to her what had been happening , we were able to progress to the next stage . |
| 9 | They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus . |
| 10 | When they started to let us out of the house we were able to rummage amongst the appalling pile of rubbish strewn around the University campus nearby . |
| 11 | During the loading period , the responsiveness of the IP 3 Rs gradually increased until they were able to respond to the ambient level of InsP 3 . |
| 12 | When Marshall and his CEGB colleagues appeared before the 1984 Commons Environment Committee they were able to point to the vague Alkali Laws to justify their position . |
| 13 | ‘ What is key is to get evidence from the crew as soon as possible and that we were able to do under the marine accident investigation system . |
| 14 | We needed to take with us clothes that were comfortable for travelling in , were easy to care for and were able to cope with the worst of the conditions . |
| 15 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 16 | Some experts maintain that these molluscs were able to swim in the open ocean , or that they were attached to floating seaweed : some such mechanism has to be invoked to explain how these bivalves came into an environment that lacked bottom-living animals . |
| 17 | What emerges from a study of the decade as a whole is the degree to which the British and Americans were able to co-operate in the Middle East despite many major differences of opinion and the cases of outright suspicion and competition which marred the relationship . |
| 18 | The surviving uskoks were able to settle in the fortified town of Senj , on the rugged Velebit coast , opposite the southern tip of Krk island . |
| 19 | Caughey 's statement paralleled the ideas about ‘ British standards of justice ’ and the responsibility of the British government under the Government of Ireland Act which were later put forward by the CSJ and the CDU , but in Caughey 's case they were able to coexist with a strong commitment to republicanism . |
| 20 | If children had greater access to a public voice , if they were able to contribute to the social meanings with which we make sense of our world , the result would not be a more ‘ childish ’ set of images . |
| 21 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 22 | However , if you were able to travel in the third dimension , you could cut straight across . |
| 23 | Those who ignored the role of adaptation were able to flourish at the same time as those for whom adaptation was the primary consideration , because the range of problems that could attract research funding allowed both approaches to find suitable niches for themselves . |