Example sentences of "was [adv] able [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was only able to shed that bondage through a charismatic experience which reassured him that he was a child of God . |
| 2 | I was only able to come because all the men have gone off to a meeting with Romanies from other camps . |
| 3 | He was soon able to report that the British government was recovering from its " kind of extreme retrogression to nineteenth-century attitudes " . |
| 4 | Brussels was full of rumours about a French attack , rumours that the Duke was scarcely able to correct or deny . |
| 5 | And yet somehow the thing was still able to consume and digest the normal fats and proteins , converting them to energy , in a complex manner which they had never really been able to explain . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | The Chairman was also able to report that the new Fast Afloat Boats ( FAB ) 3 and 4 are progressing on schedule . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was also able to meet and fight along with his relatives , Otto von Freising , Henry Jasomirgott , Henry , Bishop of Ratisbon , and Vladislav , Duke of Bohemia . |
| 11 | She was also able to recruit and train several local native English-speaking SEFIC examiners and to conduct approximately 350 SEFIC examinations . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The significance is that , together , the two operated to remove an essential feature from the full description of Co-operation ; and in so doing to deny to the movement that function which it was uniquely able to discharge and which was , therefore , most likely to guarantee its growth and survival in perpetuity . |
| 15 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
| 16 | The event was doubly significant : first , as a sort of dubbing to knighthood , the ritual demonstrated publicly that Charles as a grown man was now able to rule and ready to fight . |
| 17 | De Klerk was now able to claim that there was no longer any justification for violent protest , in view of his invitation " to all leaders who seek peace " , along with the lifting of restrictions on political groups , which he said now placed everybody in a position to pursue politics freely . |
| 18 | Above all he was now able to prepare and publish the Prayer Book of 1549 and its revised version of 1552 . |
| 19 | Glashow was then able to predict that a neutral weak interaction exists due to the exchange of the Z o , for example in electron-proton scattering ( Figure 4 ) , and that this process would violate parity in a definite way depending on the amount of mixing . |
| 20 | ‘ He spoke about how he had appreciated the colleagueship of the Methodist pastor in Crackow and I was then able to say that there were indeed Methodists in Italy and the Protestant Church , although small in number is quite significant , particularly in its work among refugees and migrant workers . |
| 21 | She was barely able to breathe as she looked up into his features , still strong but without that harsh granite edge she 'd come to know so well . |
| 22 | Soon she was barely able to walk and she had oxygen cylinders fitted in her bedroom . |
| 23 | In the building accounts of the Queen 's College , Oxford , Townesend is referred to as ‘ architecto ’ whereas his father , who had worked there previously , was described as ‘ lapicidae ’ , a distinction which reflects the fact that , like others of his kind , he was certainly able to design as well as to build ; but the extent to which he did so unaided is not entirely clear , many of the projects in Oxford at this time evidently being the work of more than one mind . |
| 24 | He was never able to reveal that his life was pure hell . |
| 25 | One night I dreamed I was a butterfly and , upon waking , was never able to discern whether I was a man who had dreamed that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that he was a man . |
| 26 | I was never able to establish whether she was telling the truth — virtually all the hijras I talked to shrouded the facts of their lives in a thick wrap of fantasies — but she was certainly from a middle-class background and spoke fluent English . |
| 27 | She found that deeply comforting and was mentally able to see that he was carrying her pain and helplessness . |