Example sentences of "[that] he was able [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , Police Constable Clifford nearly hit her , and it was only by a combination of his skill and the excellent condition of his car 's brakes that he was able to stop a fraction of a second before knocking her down . |
| 2 | Born in 1841 , Robert 's origins were bona fide proletarian ; he worked in a glass factory and as a house painter , taking evening classes in art which proved such a successful venture that he was able to set up a studio by 1869 and had developed a substantial reputation by the 1880s . |
| 3 | What is remarkable is that he was able to do this as a Party member and an official . |
| 4 | It would seem , however , that it was only by the intercession of the two kazaskers , and indeed by virtue of an imperial decree , that he was able to do so . |
| 5 | When the Minister made it clear a little more than a year ago that he was changing his attitude towards the Government of Syria , he said that he was able to do so because there was no known connection with terrorist organisations , such as that involving the appalling man , Jibril . |
| 6 | He once claimed to me that he was able to open a beer bottle with his eye and that it would cost me $29 for the privilege of seeing the trick . |
| 7 | He was provisionally enrolled at Oriel College , Oxford , and it was not until 21 July 1759 that he was able to celebrate his acceptance by writing the first line of the diary : ‘ Made a Scholar of New-College ’ . |
| 8 | It was a source of great pride to Leslie that he was able to see this final phase of the war in Africa through to the very end . |
| 9 | Gerald became so successful in farming and property that he was able to retire at the age of forty . |
| 10 | She was so pleased that he was able to talk so frivolously that she hardly distinguished what he was actually saying . |
| 11 | In the following year , Napoleon was appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the French forces after his victories in Italy and , in subsequent years , he won such remarkable victories that he was able to appoint himself as First Consul in November 1799 , and was made Emperor in 1804 . |
| 12 | He had worked for so many nineteenth-century showmen that he was able to outdo them all . |
| 13 | So clean was the tackle that he was able to dispossess the player and race clear with the ball . |
| 14 | Doubts were raised about the claims of ex-banker Cyril Reenan that he was able to monitor a lovey-dovey conversation between a mystery woman , said to be Princess Diana , and an unidentified man for a total of 23 minutes . |
| 15 | So , anyway , I hope it was n't too distracting for him , and that he was able to pick out , erm , the information that he wanted . |
| 16 | And the fact that he was able to finish sixth in the 1991 Champion Hurdle confirms a telling turn of foot . |
| 17 | Kammerer must have been imposing such intense selection on such a large sample of eggs that he was able to filter out the odd egg that carried the remnant complex of genes still present in the species ' gene pool at very low frequencies . |
| 18 | It seems that these were received and that he was able to continue his Old Testament translations until the very end , reaching the Book of Jonah . |
| 19 | It is a signal tribute to Denning that he was able to conduct his inquiry in a typical homespun fashion , without any unfair imputation against anyone being made . |
| 20 | Morris , the Gloucester left wing , did not move to cover Swift as he sprinted across again from the right wing , so Swift was left with such a clear overlap when Guscott and Fallon gave him the ball that he was able to score unopposed . |
| 21 | It was fortunate that he was able to swim , although he wondered for a moment about the presence of large predators in the water . |
| 22 | By 1867 his influence was such that he was able to force the resignation of the rector in office and persuade the pope to accept his nominee . |
| 23 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 24 | I imagine that that was one of the matters raised with the hon. Gentleman , and I hope that he was able to assure farmers of the splendid job that my noble Friend is doing for farming in Scotland . |
| 25 | There was nothing , it seemed , that he was able to say . |
| 26 | Yet one day , in his early forties , he purchased a large bottle of vodka — in order to prove , he lied to himself , that he was able to resist ‘ the demon drink ’ . |
| 27 | They could not have told when the music tightened its hold and began its pull , but to Taliesin , afterwards , it was as if there was a moment when he knew that he was able to resist , and then another moment when he had surrendered completely . |
| 28 | It 's because Mr Harvey was already a millionaire that he was able to indulge his fancy to have a stud farm — not the other way round . |
| 29 | Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits . |
| 30 | November and received a great welcome so that he was able to advance towards London unopposed as any support for James II faded away . |