Sentence examples for were basically able to from inspiring English sources

With chinampas, the area's Aztec people were basically able to construct new space for farming on previously unhospitable land.

In other words, they were basically able to get the results of a camera 50 times the size.

We were basically able to set the terms for the round so it was all really a no brainer," he says.

We were basically able to tailor the sound system to the shape of the dancefloor so that it was nice and high energy.

"You see somebody who -- really for the first time probably since she was in law school, or married to Bill Clinton -- is basically able to reach for her limits.

Their functioning may be significantly impaired, but personality remains relatively intact, the capacity to recognize and objectively evaluate reality is maintained, and they are basically able to function in everyday life.

By 'normal,' I mean kids who are basically able to move from school to hobbies to their social lives, from subject to subject, without having to get obsessed about things.

Joseph was a better model, a slave who "ended up as the Prime Minister of the most powerful nation in the world at the time"; because he persisted and listened to God, he "was basically able to save the entire world with his big thinking".

It's basically able to sniff out Wi-Fi and cellular signals in a given area and pinpoint the location of those devices on a map.

This could be a category like hypertension, where there are a lot of drugs with very similar success rates, and not like cholesterol, where Pfizer's Lipitor was basically able to take over most of the market.

The end result was that Samsung was basically able to continue selling its Nexus device uninhibited, though to be honest it probably didn't do much to help the company out financially.