Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it would be some time before he was released from hospital , he was already better and we were all able to relax with relief . |
| 2 | We were then able to return to Phosphorus which maintained progress . |
| 3 | Children were then able to sit in front of their range dressed up in old fashioned costume and role-play . |
| 4 | She was apparently able to win at will , despite a strong challenge from Raul Gardini 's Passage of Venice . |
| 5 | The team was thus able to migrate from planning , through drafting and manufacture , to assembly and commissioning , with up to three exchanging roles at any time . |
| 6 | She was not able to sleep at night , finding herself pushed about in bed . |
| 7 | From notes and other materials he was also able to construct in retrospect a diary of his parliamentary career , covering in particular detail the sessions of 1701–2 , which , surviving in manuscript form , now constitutes his chief claim to fame . |
| 8 | Deng Xiaoping , the moderniser , had survived several purges and was now able to rise to power and take centre stage . |
| 9 | None of this caused any problem at all as it was something Sylvia was well able to do in reality . |
| 10 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 11 | And erm , my wife who 's a teacher had erm a very devastating experience just after I retired so it was erm , it was as well that I retired when I did because I was then able to stay at home and er |