Example sentences of "[was/were] able [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Authority , and its schools , were able to draw on the skills of six experienced teachers ; the institute and the students were able to use the local knowledge and pragmatic insights of the schools ' staff and the advisory teacher . |
| 2 | The continuing resistance of the young Duke of Aquitaine delayed the progress of peace talks between the Kings of England and France but on 8 September they were able to agree to a truce until Michaelmas ( 29 September ) , the terms of which specifically excluded Richard . |
| 3 | But while the legislators were vying with each other to amend insolvency laws which all were agreed were far from fair or just , in 1842 they were able to agree on the need to do away with the notorious symbol of that unfairness and injustice , the Fleet Prison . |
| 4 | Within two weeks the participants were able to agree upon a draft plan . |
| 5 | Both Crook and NUJ officials were able to participate in the settlement negotiations , conducted with the help of the European Commission , which led to the drafting of s159 . |
| 6 | With its sights set against the established social and political order , it was further estranged from those newspapers which were able to participate in the reporting and gossip of metropolitan politics . |
| 7 | Ordinary people might at times come to the outer part of a temple and were able to participate in the festival processions . |
| 8 | An armada of small private boats and a flotilla of naval vessels sailed to the rescue ; more than three hundred and fifty thousand men were saved , men who were able to return to the battle against Hitler 's armies in Europe and Africa . |
| 9 | Some comments could be dealt with readily by changes to the draft statutory instruments but others were not so easy to resolve as they raise more fundamental questions and in these cases my officials were able to explore with the auditing practices board , whether issues could be more easily addressed in the statement of auditing standards which is being developed to accompany the legislation than in the statutory instruments themselves . |
| 10 | We think probably the reverse is the case , and we feel certain that if the industrious factory woman were able to deposit in the savings bank a portion of her earnings in her own name , the school pence for her children would be very seldom withheld ’ . |
| 11 | NOW that the World Cup is over and we are back to the league games again , I think that all rugby supporters who were able to go to the matches or to watch it on television must admit that rugby was the winner . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't suppose you were able to go for a run this morning in this weather ? ’ |
| 13 | There I had the idea of the kind of sound you could never have in the concert-hall , a sound that exists only in the imagination and in the new kind of acoustic reality we were able to create through the recording itself . |
| 14 | Valuable time was lost , the troops opposed to us were able to recover from the disorganization produced by our first attack , and the enemy was given the opportunity to bring up reinforcements . ’ |
| 15 | Subsection ( 2 ) is clearly an exception to the nemo dat principle , since the buyers were able to confer upon the sub-purchaser a title better than that which the buyers had themselves , namely , a title free from the sellers ’ lien and which therefore gave to the sub-purchaser the right to immediate possession . |
| 16 | There is a closing sequence now the reason that you were able to close in the manner that you did with that bloke is a natural ability , but if I 've said to you to teach somebody else it you would say I can not do it , but I ca n't teach somebody else , because you 're not actually aware of the sequence that you 're working , can you see what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 17 | However , because the New Range project is very recent in history , it was possible to interview key participants who were able to elaborate on the minutiae of the planning process . |
| 18 | ‘ It is clear that we were able to demonstrate to the ministry that we are able to do the work and give value for money . |
| 19 | In some of the most outstanding film sequences of volcanic activity ever made , the divers were able to demonstrate to the world exactly how pillows are born . |
| 20 | We begin by tracing the position before 1985 , when state agents were able to indulge in the practice of telephone-tapping without any direct legal authority . |
| 21 | The most pertinent thing was the advent of Arthur Harris as the new C-in-C , His arrival at " The Petrified Forest " ( Bomber Command HO ) coincided with the publication of the Butt Report — one of the most deadly denunciations of the only serious offensive we were able to mount against the enemy . |
| 22 | The snow ploughs had been through and so we were able to drive to the starting point on the northerly shore of Loch Torridon . |
| 23 | For seven percent there were no limitations on what they were able to do on the farm but for the rest there were one or more limiting factors . |
| 24 | Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ . |
| 25 | To some extent they were able to rely upon the generality of an engineering craftsman 's training . |
| 26 | They were able to deal with the problem because they discovered a stream running through an eighteenth-century tunnel next door . |
| 27 | Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 . |
| 28 | However , advisers in English , mathematics , science , etc. , without these roles to perform , were able to concentrate upon the provision of classroom support for teachers . |
| 29 | They were able to concentrate upon the task of becoming a teacher . |
| 30 | To do so without taking into account whether , within the former group , the mother remarried or not , or whether or not uncles , grandfathers or older brothers were able to step into the gap and provide the child with male company , would be to neglect some possible important influences . |