Example sentences of "[was/were] able make [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was closely associated with the community at Findhorn , in Scotland , where Dorothy Maclean and , subsequently , several others , were able to make contact with the ‘ devas ’ — higher level beings embodying the essence of a particular species or , in particular cases , of a place . |
| 2 | We were able to make contact with Christians from several of the churches and to offer them the possibility of ordering books in their own language via the Christian Literature Crusade in the appropriate countries . |
| 3 | They were able to make forays onto the land and back for longer periods into the water , to keep their skin damp and to reproduce . |
| 4 | However , we were able to make comparisons for the use of fixed-term contract workers and we also report briefly the results of this exercise . |
| 5 | When the proposed changes were made known , advertised , and er members of the public and other bodies were able to make representations with respect to them , site D forty was shown as being additionally within the village . |
| 6 | AFTER an outstandingly successful year of fund raising in 1990 , totalling £13,000 , Broadstairs ladies ' guild were able to make use of an empty shop in Harbour Street which the owner allowed to be used free of charge . |
| 7 | I was soon to take up my first teaching post in a Secondary School and he had called to ask if I were able to make use of a potter 's wheel which he could provide for the new Art room . |
| 8 | This was particularly the case amongst many of the female students , several of whom expressed anxiety about handling machinery or breaking expensive equipment ( unlike Paul , who was able to make jokes about it ) : |
| 9 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |
| 10 | Gradually my eyes got used to the glare and I was able to make sense of my surroundings . |
| 11 | So I was able to make excursions throughout the state , which is about the size of Hampshire , admiring its astonishing number of traditional country houses , and enjoying the company of many of their owners . |
| 12 | There were so many children that each one of the mothers and nursemaids thought that he must belong to somebody else , but as he was about the same size as the children and not much different to look at , he was able to make friends with some of them . |
| 13 | He was in Long Lartin prison when he wrote to me , but by the time that I was able to make contact with him , he had been transferred to Winson Green prison . |
| 14 | Some still do n't know what have happened to their menfolk , but one was able to make contact by telephone with her husband after six months . |
| 15 | It would be a rare individual who was able to make use of a political connection who failed to do so , for the advantages were well known . |
| 16 | He was able to make use of parrots not only in the Society 's collection , but in the vast private menageries of Lord Stanley , who was then president of both the Zoological and Linnean Societies , and who would later become Lear 's principal patron ; and in the collections of Sir Henry Halford , ‘ the eel-backed baronet ’ and physician to George IV and William IV ; of Lady Mountcharles ; and of Vigors himself , who was a neighbour of Lear 's at Chester Terrace . |