Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour 's hand on inflation would be strengthened if its leader were able to announce that it now supported early British entry into the exchange rate mechanism of the European monetary system . |
| 2 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |
| 3 | The Werner plan , from which that prediction was drawn , was wrecked by events outside Europe — the Nixon shocks and partly the effects of the OPEC increase in the oil price — but no hon. Member seems able to recall that it ever existed . |
| 4 | Even when she was well , I had never been able to relax because I never knew from one day to the next how I was going to find her . |
| 5 | I taught myself to fish the swingtip through reading Ivan 's articles , and from struggling to get a bite on my local stillwater I was able to improve until I actually won open matches there . |
| 6 | We might n't even be able to tell that there ever had been two vehicles . |