Example sentences of "was able [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patient was said to be unable to speak after this operation but by the sixteenth day he was able to use words like " mother " , " father " and " nurse " . |
| 2 | Such an assertion presupposes a well-founded theory of performance , one which was able to assign periods of time to mental processes . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the general theme was one in which Mrs Thatcher was able to tap reserves of nationalist sentiment , as could her flamboyant , flak-jacketed Defence Secretary , Michael Heseltine . |
| 4 | They agreed to transport the wheelbarrow on those days when I was able to carry supplies on my back from one village to the next . |
| 5 | Daughter Hayley said : ‘ For a while he was able to watch television by sitting in the hall with a pair of binoculars . |
| 6 | When , in January , 1988 , Prince Edward enlisted in Lloyd Webber 's Really Useful Company , in the humble role of general factotum , with the improbable public assurances that he would be treated " no differently from anybody else " , it seemed not only an oblique confirmation of royal patronage , but that Lloyd Webber himself had ascended to some peculiar level of hierarchy where he was able to employ princes as tea-boys . |
| 7 | Although Gregory himself left no works within this tradition , he was able to employ tricks of style when it suited him . |
| 8 | It seems unreasonable that with respect to the United States Nicaragua was able to claim invalidity of the 1914 treaty and not be liable for non-performance . |
| 9 | I imagine that that was one of the matters raised with the hon. Gentleman , and I hope that he was able to assure farmers of the splendid job that my noble Friend is doing for farming in Scotland . |
| 10 | For example , he was able to reconcile membership of the Church of England ( rather High ) with belonging to such occult groups as the Order of the Golden Dawn . |
| 11 | As things stood , although the Government was able to refuse registration to a newspaper on the grounds of some technicality or other , nothing in law prevented a person from using one of the existing , properly registered newspapers to put over a particular political line . |
| 12 | Originally England could supply the necessary quantities of corn from its own surplus , and later it was able to re-export corn from the Baltic , which was one of the major granaries for the lands of western Europe in the late Middle Ages . |
| 13 | And with the police and most of the armed forces behind me , I was able to stop Ngune from seizing power . |
| 14 | while Labour under Clement Attlee was able to wield influence in the coalition government . |
| 15 | Because I had not come to make a personal contribution I was able to see Africa with open eyes . |
| 16 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 17 | We have presented data which suggest that three proteins , N-Oct 3 as well as N-Oct 5A and 5B are translated from the same mRNA by alternative translation initiation ; only the largest protein , N-Oct 3 , was able to stimulate transcription from an octamer promoter under our assay conditions . |
| 18 | The city was fortified and was able to repel raids by pirates and a siege by the Saracens in 866–7 . |
| 19 | In this way , Schleiermacher was able to include Christianity alongside other faiths under his general conception of religion , and at the same time to affirm its distinctiveness and indeed superiority over all other contenders . |
| 20 | The subsequent regression equation was able to predict 89% of the patients who will die and 97% of the patients who will still be alive six weeks after their first variceal haemorrhage treated by sclerotherapy . |
| 21 | In addition , he was able to take part in furious knockabout tournaments ( Henry had banned them in England , deeming them a threat to public order ) and this early training stood Richard in good stead in later life . |
| 22 | The polytechnic directors were often deeply divided over policies , but the CDP was able to take part in higher education debate as the putative rival to the CVCP . |
| 23 | It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard . |
| 24 | In Mexico , the private sector was able to take advantage of the new seeds , but the peasants on ejido land , often unable to get credit and farming for the first three years without fertilisers were not so productive . |
| 25 | Mexico , as the world 's fifth largest oil producer in 1980 , was able to take advantage of its large revenues to finance a new development strategy known as SAM , the Mexican Food System . |
| 26 | One researcher was Ignaty Steletsky , who in the 1920s was able to take advantage of the fact that the Moscow Underground was being built . |
| 27 | Newton was able to take advantage of the work of Galileo , Kepler and others to construct that comprehensive physics that he published in his Principia in 1687 . |
| 28 | I was able to take controls of the aircraft when we were up in the sky . |
| 29 | The intravenous infusion was removed when he was able to take fluids without feeling nauseated . |
| 30 | Though some of the original contributions by Sir George Grove [ q.v. ] were still retained , Blom was able to take account of the huge expansion of musical scholarship and history that had occurred during the preceding quarter of a century . |