Example sentences of "he was able [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clearly had friends in high places , as he was able to take on prominent people who had been purged after 1968 and even some who had suffered after the takeover of 1948 . |
| 2 | As a result of his experience and observations he was able to publish in 1825 A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads , and Interior Communication in General , a classic work of early railway literature in which he discussed , for example , the various types of ‘ motive power ’ then in use ; self-acting planes , fixed steam-engine planes , horses , and locomotive steam engines . |
| 3 | When the match was found wanting , he was able to proceed to non-spherical planets , and so on . |
| 4 | In November he was able to lecture at Central Hall , Westminster , on " The Three Voices of Poetry " — in the recording of that address , his clipped and precise speech , almost professorial in character , can be heard — but it was to be his last major engagement for many months . |
| 5 | He was able to convey in grotesque terms the characters of George III and his family . |
| 6 | He was able to reply to each of these without stammering once . |
| 7 | He speaks all the languages of the old empire , so he was able to reply in perfect Hungarian . |
| 8 | In 1931 , Horton visited Denmark to look more closely at the Folk Schools and their relationships with the trade unions , farmers ' co-operatives , and other cultural and social movements , and though he was in part disappointed by the fact that the Folk Schools had moved away from their original aims and methods , he was able to speak to many people who were involved in this movement and added another dimension to the idea which was eventually to find its expression in Highlander . |