Example sentences of "was able [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in 1918 the party needed a social programme for negotiations with Lloyd George , it was to the work of the USRC that they turned ; in 1922 Griffith-Boscawen was able as Minister of Health to do some of the things he had attempted in 1912 ; much of Neville Chamberlain 's work as a reformer of the Poor Law was presaged by a USRC report of 1913 written by Hills . |
| 2 | What is remarkable about Ireland at this time is the lack of resistance to the authority of Canterbury : as a result , Anselm was able without controversy to extend the area within which the authority of Canterbury was effective . |
| 3 | Then she turned to Xanthe whom she could avoid kissing , to keep her unbathed body away from the young girl 's groomed presence as far as she was able without coldness . |
| 4 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
| 5 | As Manuel and I sat drinking our rum punch outside the tavern in the midday sun , patting Sombro and discussing dogs as pets in our respective homelands , we both knew Sombro 's manhood would remain intact and that , as long as he was able to mooch down to the village , he would do so . |
| 6 | Occasionally , the clouds , cleared and I was able to film mink scavenging along the rocky shoreline at low tide . |
| 7 | We can now turn to another question : how is it that Sue was able to covary so accurately with the speech of her interlocutor ? |
| 8 | I must have been awfully slow , I never got in ahead of her and was always the poor mutt who staggered into the office in the small hours , bleary-eyed and half-dead , while Olive , yawning profusely and clutching her hot water bottle to her bosom , was able to trip down the path to her waiting bed and not surface till about midday the next day . |
| 9 | Galileo was able to outmanoeuvre his rival in the fruitless game of the invention of ad hoc devices for the protection of theories . |
| 10 | He was not quite on , but he was able to chip and putt for his four . |
| 11 | With relatively little loss of traffic or even complaints , InterCity was able to phase out many of its old life-expired Mk 1 coaches . |
| 12 | Understandably thinking that he had achieved an odd escape , declarer gleefully played off three rounds of diamonds to discard his losing club , but now it was West who took the setting trick when he was able to ruff . |
| 13 | The girl 's eyes did not at first stray in my direction so I was able in safety to look at her , to examine her , for quite some time . |