Example sentences of "[was/were] able [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opening night was so packed that it was hard to move , but visitors were able to appreciate the strikingly contemporary aura of these works . |
| 2 | In sum about 25,000 people were able to appreciate the live transmission of Un ballo in maschera direct from the stage of the Opéra- Bastille , tickets for which has been sold out for months . |
| 3 | Their enterprising approach brought them profits ; the Hudson 's Bay Company got 10 beaverskins for a gun at its posts on the Bay , but to the Indians this was the final stage in a complicated pattern of inland trade , so that when the French travelled out to the central hunting areas they were able to save the Indians all the transport and trading costs and could get 30 beaverskins for a gun . |
| 4 | A passing police car and two neighbours alerted the fire brigade and firefighters were able to save the building from being gutted . |
| 5 | By questionnaire , and by checking awards and other honours in published sources , they were able to rank the physicists , and established that there was indeed a high correlation between the numbers of citations and the rankings established by peers . |
| 6 | As well as attending a safety briefing , they were able to view a helicopter which was kitted out for a medical evacuation operation and to see LASMO 's own computerised offshore personnel tracking system in action . |
| 7 | We pared costs by doing our own sweeping , cleaning and polishing , and we were able to purchase a few new 78rpm records each week . |
| 8 | In the course of the MINSE project , comments had also been made to the effect that , although OICs were able to purchase a microcomputer if there were sufficient funds available , little thought had been given to how these might be applied , or to the staff training needs . |
| 9 | In other words , people were able to purchase a wider variety of foodstuffs . |
| 10 | More and more people were able to join the fruit juice , fresh veg and ready-meal eating classes . |
| 11 | As more villages were opened to skiers the sport became cheaper , and a greater variety of people were able to join the affluent elitists on the slopes . |
| 12 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |
| 13 | We were able to ask the 83 applicants who mentioned vocational motives as being one reason for their interest , albeit not necessarily the main one , for more detail ( see Table 2 ) |
| 14 | If the rulers of Rheged were able to preserve a role as Oswiu 's allies , this may have directed the main thrust of the Bernician attack on British territory at this time towards the Forth . |
| 15 | There was no fire , and the pilot and passenger were able to evacuate the aircraft unaided and unhurt . |
| 16 | By that time I had copied her training set-up in my own lab , and we were able to repeat the entire experiment as before . |
| 17 | By 1949 , however , as a result of Soviet pressure , the communists were able to submit a ‘ government list , for national approval . |
| 18 | We 'd received a tip-off about a shipment of cocaine due in at Nice aboard a South American freighter , so when it was unloaded we were able to apprehend the gang without much of a struggle . |
| 19 | However , 95% of authorities were able to state an amount , or estimate an amount , quite specifically . |
| 20 | During the sixth century , craftsmen were increasingly operating from workshops , employed by those who had made a greater success in the agricultural way of life and were able to support a greater number of specialists and farmworkers . |
| 21 | The Purnells and their supporters owned land on the proposed route of the canal and were able to delay the construction , as well as ultimately extract the highest price paid for any of the land between the Severn and Stroud . |
| 22 | In the case of this group , they were able to define the questions related to strategy , to conduct their own inquiries , to have staff people conduct some relevant research , to have three individuals organise it into a presentation that was ultimately approved and owned by the top group . |
| 23 | A long time since you were able to ease the burden of your sins . ’ |
| 24 | Initially , the great masses of floating pumice which had piled up on the sea made it difficult for ships to force their way through the water — rafts three metres thick were reported in places — but eventually parties were able to reach the islands and determine what changes had taken place . |
| 25 | In 1956 a newly formed party , the National Socialists , who sought greater economic as well as political freedom , were able to form a coalition with the Ba'athists and Communists to assume government . |
| 26 | did did do you think you you were able to form a judgement of people on the basis of your experience ? |
| 27 | Firstly , we were able to pinpoint a particular problem that arose only in the context of a complete system . |
| 28 | Fortunately we were able to use a FIS race , in Pitztal , Austria , as preparation for the World Cup season . |
| 29 | The class were able to use a new information source ; to locate and extract information from that source ; use Mailbox to send for further information ; see tangible results from their Mailbox request ; and obtained up-to-date and vivid information which would have been hard to get from another source . |
| 30 | ‘ Why was it that men , management and union together , were able to use the union to control women 's wages ? ’ |