Example sentences of "[was/were] able [to-vb] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connoisseurs who heard tape copies were also suspicious of the vocal mannerisms ; but engineers at the National Sound Archive were able to declare it a forgery the moment they heard it , for an unassailable technical reason . |
| 2 | Oxford City Council councils housing experts were able to tell her the eviction order is illegal . |
| 3 | For many years serious and respectable citizens had worried about the new masses but now at least entrepreneurs and businessmen were able to offer them every service , every distraction , and every entertainment that their wages allowed . |
| 4 | But she remembers very well and erm she was able to give me a lot of personal details about the movement in nineteen nineteen . |
| 5 | She was able to make herself a pottery workshop by joining two old telephone engineers ' caravans together , and now works from her father 's market garden near Livingston . |
| 6 | When one of the men he had employed as a ploughman in the autumn came to the farm , more in hope than the expectation of finding any work , Seb was able to offer him a day 's pay . |
| 7 | It was ultimately because of this that Nonconformity , unlike the Church of England , was able to achieve something no church has equalled since : it attracted and kept men in church . |