Example sentences of "was able [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some problems which the Public Assistance Committee was able to unload without regret . |
| 2 | But after some counselling from the development officer the situation improved and the worker was able to continue in post . |
| 3 | The boy 's story was discounted and Oldfield was able to continue in charge of the home until his suspension in 1990 when new evidence came to light . |
| 4 | Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) . |
| 5 | Consequently Hunt earned the thanks of The Civil Engineer and Architects ' Journal for his innovation , and a few days later in the House , Gladstone was able to say with satisfaction that ‘ for the first time in the history of public edifices in the metropolis ’ , it was possible to state what the real cost would be . |
| 6 | Mr Pope drew from memory a remarkably accurate sketch of the hexagonal table with headsets , an example of which I was able to inspect at Telecom Technology Showcase , as British Telecom calls its new museum . |
| 7 | The Earl of Cumberland had a profitable licence to export undressed cloth , which he was able to sell to merchants . |
| 8 | For much of 1980s , it has devised urban policies of a more imaginative and consensual nature than central government was able to create in England . |
| 9 | Its public sector funding depends on money from Northern Arts , and I am delighted to confirm that , as a result of the record settlement that I was able to negotiate for overheads , Northern Arts will receive a 13.9 per cent increase for 1992-93 amounting to more than £5 million . |
| 10 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 11 | I was able to go to Westminster for fairly regular lectures and we added anthropology to our social psychology studies . |
| 12 | Ever since I was able to go into Porteneil alone and check things up in the library my father has had to be pretty straight with me , but when I was younger he used to fool me time after time , answering my honest if naive questions with utter rubbish . |
| 13 | The lucky part for me was that I was able to go from school and do what I wanted to do . |
| 14 | Thus both in the League of Youth and in the expanding local parties , the Left was able to feed on resentment against organizational restrictions which were largely designed to prevent the expansion of the Left within the Labour Party . |
| 15 | Thanks to the crutch , she was able to dispense with Rosa 's aid . |
| 16 | This grew with the coming to power of de Gaulle and the personal understanding he was able to reach with Adenauer . |
| 17 | In 1888 the York Street site was able to exhibit in Glasgow a revolutionary steel underframe to replace the existing timber supports for wagons and carriages , and the world of railways was very impressed . |
| 18 | During 1902 Belle was able to return to Johannesburg and retrieve at least some of her possessions . |
| 19 | Thankfully , the damage was minimal and she was able to return to barracks knowing that the Battalion Welfare Fund would be able to pay for the cost of the necessary repairs . |
| 20 | Fortunately my mother was able to return to teaching and to complete the final two or three years which qualified her for a pension of her own . |
| 21 | Within one week of starting penicillin treatment the ringing had gone and he was able to return to work . |
| 22 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 23 | The funeral passed off without incident , and by 1630 hours the majority of the platoon was able to return to Omagh , leaving a section under the command of the platoon commander to cover the post-funeral gathering in the church hall . |
| 24 | Shah Jehan had now recovered from his illness and was able to move to Agra and join in the victory celebrations . |
| 25 | So then I was able to put in drops of blood and nasty black and white pictures and get rid of the Paisley patterns and bindweed round the edge of pages everywhere . ’ |
| 26 | When I came out on top I immediately looked to starboard for the Pole Star and was rather shocked to find that it was oil the portside and we were obviously heading east , but by careful use of the engines was able to turn through 180° and the navigator gave me a heading after taking a sight from the astro compass . |
| 27 | Previously , speeding traffic along the main road often used the traffic islands painted on the road for overtaking purposes and was able to turn at speed into Buxtehude at this generously proportioned junction ( Figure 6.8 ) . |
| 28 | Each time Celia re-entered the clinic he could not deny a feeling of overwhelming relief , although he still tried to spend at least one night at home mid-week , if only for the brief half-hour in the morning , which he was able to devote to Harry . |
| 29 | He was able to plan with precision and enthusiasm the date of his own retirement , to look forward to it because it was in no way forced upon him , and to believe that he would be remembered with affection and regret . |
| 30 | This will cover a variety of material from the aftermath of the disastrous Beeching line closures of the early Sixties , when Col. Savill was able to record on colour film many of the much-loved structures of the railway scene that are now lost . |