Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists found themselves able to explain how one event causes another in the physical world without supposing objects in that world to have all the qualities we perceive them as having . |
| 2 | The applied mathematicians found themselves able to claim that ‘ industry ’ also approved of ‘ modelling ’ , numerical methods and so on , as well as being able to derive resources of personnel and money from companies with which to further the promotion of their version of ‘ mathematics ’ . [ … ] |
| 3 | By the summer of 1885 , Anglican bishops , freethinkers and socialists found themselves able to work together in a short-lived coalition against sexual abuse of children . |
| 4 | Thus , the Palestinians , the weakest of all contenders , showed themselves able to render the peace process ineffectual until they were granted participation on acceptable terms . |
| 5 | Under those circumstances , foreign aid agencies saw a vacuum which they felt themselves able to fill . |
| 6 | Indeed the Committee even extended this logic to a position whereby they felt themselves able to justify the decriminalisation of adult homosexual behaviour in private as a form of protection for the young : |