Example sentences of "was able [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daughter Hayley said : ‘ For a while he was able to watch television by sitting in the hall with a pair of binoculars . |
| 2 | Alice , in November nineteen ninety one , twenty fourth , the Sunday , she had a headache , was n't feeling too great , during the evening she was able to watch television , but she was a bit sick during the night . |
| 3 | She says ‘ It was clear that the sister 's influence on learning extended beyond the actual teaching she did ; for she was able to initiate teaching and ( through her ward organisation ) place learners in situations in which they had an opportunity to learn ’ ( Fretwell , 1980 , p. 70 ) . |
| 4 | It seems unreasonable that with respect to the United States Nicaragua was able to claim invalidity of the 1914 treaty and not be liable for non-performance . |
| 5 | Radio transmission had advanced and the first trans-Atlantic broadcast took place in 1925 , but only the following year , John Logie Baird was able to demonstrate television . |
| 6 | For example , he was able to reconcile membership of the Church of England ( rather High ) with belonging to such occult groups as the Order of the Golden Dawn . |
| 7 | The voluntary non-statutory sector was able to extend provision because it could attract the services of people who would not be prepared to work for a public authority . |
| 8 | As things stood , although the Government was able to refuse registration to a newspaper on the grounds of some technicality or other , nothing in law prevented a person from using one of the existing , properly registered newspapers to put over a particular political line . |
| 9 | The Table shows that only high molecular DNA isolatedfrom CC-M2 cells was able to induce type II transforming foci of which the transforming efficiency was 0.25 focus per µg of DNA . |
| 10 | Originally England could supply the necessary quantities of corn from its own surplus , and later it was able to re-export corn from the Baltic , which was one of the major granaries for the lands of western Europe in the late Middle Ages . |
| 11 | Gradually she learnt to eat more regularly and healthily , and was able to stop bingeing . |
| 12 | while Labour under Clement Attlee was able to wield influence in the coalition government . |
| 13 | Balanchine , City Ballet 's artistic director , came to Britain to mount his Ballet Imperial for Sadler 's Wells Ballet , was able to see Beauty and the Beast , and approved the choice . |
| 14 | One looks at a star , one sees radiation from an object which may have a surface temperature of many thousands of degrees — in fact , internal temperatures of millions of degrees , but with a radio telescope one 's looking at very , very cold regions and these were totally inaccessible before the advent of radio astronomy , or of this type anyway , and for the first time one was able to see material spread between the stars rather thinly , but in fact in a very cold state . |
| 15 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 16 | We have presented data which suggest that three proteins , N-Oct 3 as well as N-Oct 5A and 5B are translated from the same mRNA by alternative translation initiation ; only the largest protein , N-Oct 3 , was able to stimulate transcription from an octamer promoter under our assay conditions . |
| 17 | In this way , Schleiermacher was able to include Christianity alongside other faiths under his general conception of religion , and at the same time to affirm its distinctiveness and indeed superiority over all other contenders . |
| 18 | The company was able to display Probe 's endorsement prominently in advertising and on the products themselves . |
| 19 | In addition , he was able to take part in furious knockabout tournaments ( Henry had banned them in England , deeming them a threat to public order ) and this early training stood Richard in good stead in later life . |
| 20 | The polytechnic directors were often deeply divided over policies , but the CDP was able to take part in higher education debate as the putative rival to the CVCP . |
| 21 | It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard . |
| 22 | In Mexico , the private sector was able to take advantage of the new seeds , but the peasants on ejido land , often unable to get credit and farming for the first three years without fertilisers were not so productive . |
| 23 | Mexico , as the world 's fifth largest oil producer in 1980 , was able to take advantage of its large revenues to finance a new development strategy known as SAM , the Mexican Food System . |
| 24 | ‘ The matched each other until 4–4 in the third and then her returns got a bit shorter and Audra was able to take advantage . ’ |
| 25 | One researcher was Ignaty Steletsky , who in the 1920s was able to take advantage of the fact that the Moscow Underground was being built . |
| 26 | Newton was able to take advantage of the work of Galileo , Kepler and others to construct that comprehensive physics that he published in his Principia in 1687 . |
| 27 | She was able to take centre stage , providing comic relief while Zephyr shared intimate moments with her special friends . |
| 28 | As rain threatened throughout the week , but failed to actually materialise most of the time , there were fewer disruptions than usual , and another delightful aspect of Beckenham week was able to take place . |
| 29 | Though some of the original contributions by Sir George Grove [ q.v. ] were still retained , Blom was able to take account of the huge expansion of musical scholarship and history that had occurred during the preceding quarter of a century . |
| 30 | She was able to take analgesia orally and once her pain was controlled , she became more willing to move and adopt a less tense position . |