Example sentences of "be also able [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 IBM were also able to argue that the local soil always had a high lead content .
2 The Chairman was also able to report that the new Fast Afloat Boats ( FAB ) 3 and 4 are progressing on schedule .
3 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 .
4 In addition to showing simply that the factors occurred together , Weber was also able to show that there was an understandable connection between the Calvinists ' beliefs and their actions .
5 The simplest cultural dimension is to use local authority administrative areas but these often lag behind significant changes in population composition , and although Robertson 's ( 1961 ) classification already outlined , defined 75 per cent of the areas as rural-urban , she was also able to comment that this reflected not only the extent of the outward movement from towns , but also the inadequacy of the census definition of rural population , namely all persons living in administrative Rural Districts .
6 In Leicester the Council got a Nonconformist chaplain for the workhouse and it was also able to ensure that the new public cemetery would be ‘ unsectarian ’ , that is , without an Anglican Chapel .
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