Sentence examples for was proficient enough from inspiring English sources

(Dunsany was proficient enough to play Capablanca, the Cuban world champion, to a draw).

By the time he attended Northwestern University, he was proficient enough to earn his expenses with ventriloquism and magic tricks.

Yes, he has studied German and was proficient enough to use it on a trip to Germany last year, but he is hardly fluent.

From Muskogee in Oklahoma, Williams dabbled first with mandolin and banjo, and by the age of 10 was proficient enough to join a string band, playing for tips on excursion trains running between Oklahoma City and Tulsa.

By the age of 16, Ian was proficient enough in Russian and German to win a place at Glasgow University, from which he dropped out, later taking a place at Aberdeen, where he graduated in modern languages.

Within four years, he was proficient enough to join the staff of the Berlin hair stylist Anton, and by the age of fourteen he had moved on to Moscow, where he worked for Korpo, the cosmetician to the Imperial Russian Grand Opera.

The percentages at or above baseline (level II) and norm (level III) proficiency give us an idea of how many students are proficient enough to successfully compete in an English-speaking globalized society: Over 80% of native speakers scored at or above baseline proficiency, in our sample of non-native speakers the percentage was 56.8%.

Whether they will be proficient enough at close quarters to do anything meaningful about it is another question.

John Skelton (and, in the back end of the fourth quarter, Kevin Kolb) were proficient enough to take advantage.

Around 250 software engineers are proficient enough in Japanese to converse with Japanese clients, albeit with laughably poor pronunciation.

And it will take years before China's military is proficient enough to use the high-tech weapons effectively.