Example sentences of "was able [verb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton 's prompt offer of assistance , however , had deflected the criticism from the Argyll party itself , and Mrs. Mary happily was able to report that those who were once Sir James Campbell 's friends ‘ continues firm in their good wishes to my Chief and Lord Milton , those two healths is often drunk without naming their Member ’ . |
| 2 | The couple celebrated with a glass of champagne in the local pub … and Reg was able to reflect that all things come to those who wait . |
| 3 | The DoE was able to confirm that most of the advertisers involved had not obtained their consent . |
| 4 | However , in his researches , Professor Mark Rosenzweig was able to prove that this was not so and that , given sufficient stimulation , the brain can actually develop at any age . |
| 5 | Again , Tylor was able to prove that these curious forms of reference were not distributed round the globe by arbitrary acts of providence . |
| 6 | He was able to calculate that these were made by a man in his twenties , approximately six feet tall , weighing a little over eleven stone . |
| 7 | In 1970 , Pamela Allerston , for example , looked at villages in the Vale of Pickering and was able to show that some with very regular plans had come into existence in the early Middle Ages and replaced an earlier arrangement of scattered hamlets . |