Example sentences of "[was/were] able [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the face of a common enemy , Serbs , Croats , Italians and Vlahs were able to unite in defence of the Dalmatian city states which owed allegiance to Venice . |
| 2 | The first people to appreciate them were the ancient Egyptians , who were able to draw on supplies from Sinai . |
| 3 | ‘ We were able to draw on our experience in academic bookselling , and demonstrate to the Hallam that we were already running a successful academic bookshop in Sheffield . |
| 4 | The Authority , and its schools , were able to draw on the skills of six experienced teachers ; the institute and the students were able to use the local knowledge and pragmatic insights of the schools ' staff and the advisory teacher . |
| 5 | One reason for this is probably that subjects who were not told the overall theme of the passage until the end were able to draw on their knowledge of similar stories which they had heard before . |
| 6 | Thus boards were able to draw from varied training material . |
| 7 | When the Report was subsequently embodied into an Act of Parliament , many born-deaf people of undoubted ability found themselves debarred from taking up teaching as a profession unless they could first prove they were able to teach in ordinary schools . |
| 8 | The continuing resistance of the young Duke of Aquitaine delayed the progress of peace talks between the Kings of England and France but on 8 September they were able to agree to a truce until Michaelmas ( 29 September ) , the terms of which specifically excluded Richard . |
| 9 | But while the legislators were vying with each other to amend insolvency laws which all were agreed were far from fair or just , in 1842 they were able to agree on the need to do away with the notorious symbol of that unfairness and injustice , the Fleet Prison . |
| 10 | 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 . ) . |
| 11 | Within two weeks the participants were able to agree upon a draft plan . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | With its sights set against the established social and political order , it was further estranged from those newspapers which were able to participate in the reporting and gossip of metropolitan politics . |
| 14 | Ordinary people might at times come to the outer part of a temple and were able to participate in the festival processions . |
| 15 | Because they were able to participate in two kinds of experience which were new and unexpected — radical university politics in the 1930s , and Japanese stage-managed ‘ independence ’ in 1943 — 5 — they became successively prime ministers of Burma and the architects of independence . |
| 16 | After that , even though the workers might not be able to achieve maximum output , they were able to participate in production . |
| 17 | Both Crook and NUJ officials were able to participate in the settlement negotiations , conducted with the help of the European Commission , which led to the drafting of s159 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 20 | She became there as the week went on and as we seriously , intently were able to talk to her and even comb her hair . |
| 21 | At last we were able to talk to people who 'd been through this . ’ |
| 22 | There was a party afterwards during which we were able to talk to some of the officers who seemed faintly bored by the whole process . |
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| 24 | Soon , as Eric 's ears became accustomed to the Italian language , we were able to talk about ourselves , our dreams , our aspirations and our families . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | By the end of August so excessive had been the overtime paid the builders and excavators that Dancer and his gaudy retinue were able to move into Eldercombe Manor . |
| 28 | we were able to move into school , which was fantastic as a school , being new with quadrangle and different classes for every subject , really enjoyed that . |
| 29 | Some of the Serbian nobles , like Djuradj Branković , their ruler , actually owned land in southern Hungary and were able to move to their estates across the river . |
| 30 | Whether or not one feels that , by modern standards , Mrs Sherwood 's attitude was a healthy one , the fact remains that , despite the loss of a second child in India , she and her husband were able to return to England with their faith unimpaired , and settled down to live useful and active lives . |