Example sentences of "[pron] was not [adv] able [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not only able to review social security , I had the opportunity as a politician of implementing the changes — always provided I could get the support of my colleagues , of course , and that was not going to be easy . |
| 2 | She was not even able to read : though the family possessed an extensive library , Dona Marguerita had it kept locked and the key lodged with Padre Jorge , who was prepared to issue devotional books only , and that grudgingly . |
| 3 | Even under Anne , when the ministry of the day never did lose a General Election , it was not always able to get the type of Parliament it wanted . |
| 4 | Now , however , four days later , having escaped into Austria himself , Loehr was making a final attempt to surrender his forces to the British , saying that he was not longer able to control the movement northwards into Austria either of his own German troops , or of a huge column of Croat troops and civilian refugees advancing from Zagreb on the frontier town of Dravograd , south-east of Klagenfurt . |
| 5 | He was not only able to make most of his subjects feel proud of being Italians but also succeeded to a great extent in making them believe that his great dream of giving Italy an important place in the world , as important as that of Britain and France , could become a reality . |