Example sentences of "was able use the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what sticks in the mind is how easily the City was able to use the self-regulatory nature of the investor protection system — ‘ we pay for it , so get him off our backs ’ — to twist the arm of the government . |
| 2 | Luckily , as was the way in those less intense days , Micky Watson was able to use the considerable contracting plant and other facilities of his own business ( Aubrey Watson Ltd. ) , to help pull the Club together . |
| 3 | Structuralism was able to use the nouveaux romanciers denial of an autobiographical motivation and its allocation of an apparently more active role to the reader as an illustration of the ‘ death of the author ’ criterion , while the difficult question of referentiality would be echoed by many of the novelists themselves in critical debate . |
| 4 | For Robbe-Grillet in particular , this was also a philosophical and quasi-sociological necessity , mirroring the dehumanization and alienation of man in modern society — a critique which would later be adapted by the Marxist theorist Lucien Goldmann — in Pour une sociologie du roman ( 1964 ) — who was able to use the concept of reification as a means of explaining the chosisme of Robbe-Grillet 's early novels and the subversion of character in the nouveau roman generally . |
| 5 | She was very determined , and very soon after her return home she was managing the stairs , and later she was able to use the bath without a hoist . |
| 6 | Because of this , as Mr Henderson explains : ‘ It was able to use the output from that to build its Micro Control application in two days and completely circumvent the need for the mainframe . ’ |
| 7 | He was able to use the fact that he was a police sergeant ( and a sociology graduate ) to conduct a covert study of the police at work , and discusses the ethics of such research . |
| 8 | I thought things had changed in Sweden when I was able to use the same team in successive games for the first time in six years . |
| 9 | For the end of the fourth and early fifth centuries Gregory was able to use the Spanish historian Orosius , and the works of two otherwise unknown authors , Sulpicius Alexander and Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus , but thereafter he had no historian to follow . |
| 10 | He did not find the relevant information , but was able to use the Prestel mailbox facility to send a message to COIC . |