Example sentences of "[was/were] able [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so too have been the threats , for not all were able to respond adequately to the new standards set by the leaders . |
| 2 | It was nearly seven in the evening and the sun was setting behind their backs before the two weary , footsore brothers were able to limp back to their barracks in Number Three Village with their joint quota fulfilled . |
| 3 | The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows . |
| 4 | Operating out of Rockswell and other quarries in the county , the three were able to carry up to five extra loads , worth between £40 and £50 , per week . |
| 5 | Operating out of Rockswell and other quarries in the county , the three were able to carry up to five extra loads , worth between £40 and £50 , per week . |
| 6 | When tested with a sugar solution resembling nectar , bees were able to distinguish up to nine separate meal times . |
| 7 | After the seventh war with the Turks ( 1714–18 ) the Venetians were able to advance up to the present Bosnian border , taking in the whole of Sinjsko Polje and Imotski . |
| 8 | With our all-purpose Lloyds bankcard ( Visa/cashcard/ cheque guarantee card ) we were able to obtain up to our daily maximum limit on any one day , in US$ , within a few minutes at the bank . |
| 9 | The response was overwhelming and I was able to raise over £1,000 which was added to other monies raised by the branch of J Sainsbury 's plc where I am employed and we were able to hand over to Terry Scott a cheque for £10,000 . |
| 10 | With that comparatively primitive system we were able to fly down to a height of 200 feet above the runway . |
| 11 | In the case of the treaty it gave the opportunity for the Red Army to be created , which at a later date was able to go on to the offensive . |
| 12 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |
| 13 | ’ And then mercifully he lost interest and fell asleep and I was able to go back to my researches in the library . |
| 14 | So then I was able to go back to the library . ’ |
| 15 | But the suspension also meant that Coker was able to whizz back to Oz for a two-week training camp in Brisbane with Queensland to return having served his time and he missed almost none of the domestic season . |
| 16 | With these proceeds he was able to return home to Polperro and purchase a small coasting schooner . |
| 17 | Then she was able to move on to paying all those bills that had accumulated . |
| 18 | A crab-apple tree broke his fall , and he was able to hang on to it , but his horse fell below and was killed . |
| 19 | From a massive deficit of £281mi1lion in 1984–5 , the year of the miners ' strike , the sector was able to recover quickly to break-even point and then achieve a handsome surplus of £69million in 1988–9 . |
| 20 | Interest waned in the afternoon , but with conditions still said to be ‘ squeezy , ’ the Treasury 11¾p.c. 2003–07 was able to hold on to a rise of £516 to £117⅝ on a yield of 9.13p.c . |
| 21 | claimed that firms such as hi , with a team of relevant specialists , was able to respond quickly to requests of this kind , especially now that they were equipped with a computer-aided design system ( CAS ) . |
| 22 | He was able to pass on to Nicholson authoritative recollections of seeing huge worms crawl out of biscuits , eating a plum that was alive , seeing his wife sitting beside herself and all that kind of hallucinatory experience . |
| 23 | After a month , the pain began to ease slightly and Lisa was able to get up to her own room with Janet 's help . |
| 24 | Did he feel better or worse that neither the genuine Matthew Prescott nor the spurious Michael Watney was able to get through to Alexandra ? |
| 25 | I worked my way — somewhat fearfully , I admit — into a gloomy stand of pines , and there found several fallen branches which I was able to drag back to the cave . |
| 26 | Thanks to the wonderful invention of fax machines , which enable my office to send me the proofs and layouts to read and check , I was able to slip away to Forest Mere Health Hydro for six days . |
| 27 | According to him , I was able to read aloud to him passages from the Stornoway Gazette when I was three years old . |
| 28 | When he bolted the door , pulled down the shutter , put the chairs on the tables , emptied the till and swept the floor he was able to walk through to the back , climb the stairs , sprawl into a big armchair and look at his collection of pictures , news cuttings , fan club items , record sleeves and signed photographs of Shirley Temple . |