Example sentences of "[was/were] able [to-vb] [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for this is probably that subjects who were not told the overall theme of the passage until the end were able to draw on their knowledge of similar stories which they had heard before . |
| 2 | Parishes were able to cope with their pauper problem until England 's population began to soar dramatically during the second half of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | It would therefore be unhelpful , not to say intolerable , if the controllers were able to report on their performance in any terms that they chose . |
| 4 | The investment made by such wholesale funeral furnishers would have been fairly steep , yet they were able to recoup on their capital outlay through hire charges , which were in turn passed on by the undertaker to the client . |
| 5 | England were able to start with their captain Richard Leman and gave an outing to Don Williams . |
| 6 | Prices will move in exactly the same way as they would move in a world in which buyers and sellers were able to learn from their market experience . |
| 7 | The whole incident was over within an hour and the patrol was able to return to their base . |