Example sentences of "were able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the face of a common enemy , Serbs , Croats , Italians and Vlahs were able to unite in defence of the Dalmatian city states which owed allegiance to Venice . |
| 2 | After that , even though the workers might not be able to achieve maximum output , they were able to participate in production . |
| 3 | we were able to move into school , which was fantastic as a school , being new with quadrangle and different classes for every subject , really enjoyed that . |
| 4 | The prospectors , unlike their predecessors in many parts of the world , were able to go by train : |
| 5 | Some conscripts were able to live at home for at least part of their service , reporting for duty at 5.30 a.m. and returning in the late afternoon — but usually only those who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it . |
| 6 | David Raffe ( 11 ) of Edinburgh University found that more than three-quarters of school leavers from sparsely populated areas were able to live at home . |
| 7 | Thanks to the generosity of local travel company Regent Holidays UK Ltd we were able to advertise in Venue magazine and to have AA signs erected around the city to direct traffic to the Watershed Media Centre were the whole event took place . |
| 8 | Specific findings for the six companies that we were able to examine in detail are included in Appendix A to this report . |
| 9 | Only a small percentage of black children were able to remain at school beyond primary level . |
| 10 | The authors therefore examined the data for explanations as to why some women were more vulnerable than others , or , expressed another way , why some women seemed resilient to , or protected from , or were able to cope with adversity such that they did not develop clinical depression . |
| 11 | Unless this implicit argumentative dimension is recognized , it is not possible to understand how the actual historical events were able to realize into explicitness a particular set of implicit half-formed justifications . |
| 12 | Overall , the amounts which these groups of families were able to spend on food were , in three cases out of four , well below the minimum considered necessary by the British Medical Association Nutrition Committee . |
| 13 | In the 1970s , this kind of pressure led to the prevalence of an increasing pool of funds allocated to soft or mixed commercial credits , which some EC governments were able to describe as aid . |
| 14 | Southport 's reply was never in any trouble and Swift ( 28no ) and Butler ( 70no ) were able to score at will . |
| 15 | By 1969 millions of people were able to watch on colour TV as the first human set foot on the moon . |
| 16 | The first , a matter of convenience and cost , was that for these figures we were able to rely in part on a large survey of lending rates published last year by Consumers ' Association ( Which ? |
| 17 | So in this way the Persians were able to advance with ease and the Egyptians were helpless to retaliate . |
| 18 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was only the most affluent who were able to benefit from refrigeration during the summer . |
| 19 | Fourteen trade cards issued by London undertakers during the period c.1680 to c.1760 survive , and as none indicate any other craft-affiliation it must be assumed that they were able to furnish from stock all that went to provide for a funeral . |