Example sentences of "[was/were] able [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 2 | Bishop 's Castle Railway employees were able to travel at a much reduced rate on all railways in the British Isles . |
| 3 | On the well-defined Teviotdale road they proceeded next morning , and now were able to check at the villages and communities they passed that they were still on Balliol 's route , without the time-consuming searching for tracks . |
| 4 | this time we were able to stand at a distance from it all and weigh it up and write better songs . |
| 5 | Those who ignored the role of adaptation were able to flourish at the same time as those for whom adaptation was the primary consideration , because the range of problems that could attract research funding allowed both approaches to find suitable niches for themselves . |
| 6 | The higher order of passenger was able to arrive at the station shortly before the departure of the train and proceed directly to accommodation on it . |
| 7 | So inviting was the gap created that the loose forward was able to score at the back of the posts , leaving Maskill with another simple kick . |
| 8 | Gerald became so successful in farming and property that he was able to retire at the age of forty . |
| 9 | Even so , he was able to look at the fireglow of the Chariot , and he was able to look into the light and see the salamanders with their wise faces and their eyes filled with ancient knowledge . |
| 10 | Since daylight was flooding into the world , I was able to stay at a distance and keep him in sight . |
| 11 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 12 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 13 | First , black workers were recruited for precisely those jobs , usually poorly paid and involving unpleasant working conditions , which the indigenous white working class was able to reject at the time of economic expansion , thus preventing the development of bottlenecks in production and permitting higher levels of capital accumulation . |
| 14 | also , I was able to work at the painting knowing I could obliterate any unwanted areas ; this gave me the freedom I needed . |