Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] able [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also able to report that under the new chief executive , David Michels , the group had regained control of its runaway balance sheet position by selling its Ashbourne nursing home division , launching a well-received rights issue and restructuring the banking arrangements with a considerable reduction in the number of banks . |
| 2 | He was soon able to report that the British government was recovering from its " kind of extreme retrogression to nineteenth-century attitudes " . |
| 3 | He was only able to shed that bondage through a charismatic experience which reassured him that he was a child of God . |
| 4 | He was never able to reveal that his life was pure hell . |
| 5 | ‘ No ! ’ he said in a hoarse scream ; and even then he was still able to feel that it must be by the grace of God that what felt like the terror of an animal in extremity should produce a cry of respectable human rage . |