Example sentences of "was able take [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One researcher was Ignaty Steletsky , who in the 1920s was able to take advantage of the fact that the Moscow Underground was being built . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was able to take controls of the aircraft when we were up in the sky . |
| 9 | The intravenous infusion was removed when he was able to take fluids without feeling nauseated . |
| 10 | 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 . |