Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Raffe ( 11 ) of Edinburgh University found that more than three-quarters of school leavers from sparsely populated areas were able to live at home . |
| 2 | In the 1970s , this kind of pressure led to the prevalence of an increasing pool of funds allocated to soft or mixed commercial credits , which some EC governments were able to describe as aid . |
| 3 | Overall , the amounts which these groups of families were able to spend on food were , in three cases out of four , well below the minimum considered necessary by the British Medical Association Nutrition Committee . |
| 4 | So in this way the Persians were able to advance with ease and the Egyptians were helpless to retaliate . |
| 5 | Some conscripts were able to live at home for at least part of their service , reporting for duty at 5.30 a.m. and returning in the late afternoon — but usually only those who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it . |
| 6 | Only a small percentage of black children were able to remain at school beyond primary level . |
| 7 | Unless this implicit argumentative dimension is recognized , it is not possible to understand how the actual historical events were able to realize into explicitness a particular set of implicit half-formed justifications . |