Example sentences of "[was/were] able [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say the majority of the staff group they met considered they were able to foster better relations when prisoners wore civilian clothes . |
| 2 | As with the Area Boards , the materials supply situation cased considerably after 1953 , and they were able to negotiate tighter contracts with better delivery dates for the mid-1950s and after . |
| 3 | In doing so , they unwittingly made a popular decision , for in later years the local men were able to feel easier in their minds about telling their womenfolk that they were " going down to the Russell " . |
| 4 | They captured several outposts and with the arms they gathered were able to equip larger forces . |
| 5 | In studies of survivors of the horrors of prison camps , those who had a purpose in living , with well defined goals , were able to withstand greater deprivation such as starvation and torture . |
| 6 | Britain and America were able to afford better laws and safer workplaces as they got richer . |
| 7 | With the help of our Holding Trustees , we were able to make further improvements to Head Office facilities . |
| 8 | Thus equipped , these new animals were able to grow bigger and move about freely . |
| 9 | Once railways had actually proved their viability new investment shifted to the railway companies who were able to offer better returns on capital than the canal companies . |
| 10 | As he drank from the two glasses so he was able to strut wider and leap higher , until with the glasses empty he was spinning and soft-shoe shuffling , and the dancers had stopped dancing and were finger-clicking and hand-clapping and the atmosphere built like a house of cards , thin and precarious but high and beautiful . |
| 11 | Since the state was largely responsible for initiating and paying for mass education , it was able to establish greater control over teachers . |