Example sentences of "able [to-vb] from [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she was able to see from the back of the truck was the rounded outlines of scattered Nissen huts and , on the dark horizon , tall , wedge-shaped buildings hung with dim blue lights . |
| 2 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |
| 3 | A linguistic survey such as this carried out in 1980 was able to benefit from the experience of earlier sociolinguistic work ; many problems had already been anticipated . |
| 4 | Criminal bankruptcy orders , designed to ensure that those who committed large-scale crimes , especially fraud , should not be able to benefit from the fruits of their criminal activities , were also included . |
| 5 | Casteleyn observed that ‘ Smaller libraries may not need a full-time training officer but may be able to benefit from the advice of a training officer employed to develop training centrally for the whole organisation ’ , and suggested that ‘ smaller authorities who were unlikely to have their own training officers should look to their authority 's training department for support ’ but it seems that in practice , smaller libraries are least likely to have an existing strong centre of training expertise to turn to . |
| 6 | The visitor has the appropriate skills to be able to benefit from the use of the facility and its services . |
| 7 | Only the Maronites felt able to drink from the cup of French tutelage and even they quickly found that the chalice contained a special , colonial poison , the effects of which would be passed on to future generations ; for by adding such large areas of Muslim Syria to the new ‘ Lebanon ’ , the French ensured that the Christians ' precarious status as the largest religious community would — once the Muslim birthrate increased — be lost . |
| 8 | In fourth year , students are able to choose from a range of different courses which are allied to contemporary issues and research in psychology . |
| 9 | If you own a Singer Freestyle light scanning machine , you will be able to choose from a selection of ten ‘ ready to knit ’ animal motifs in the ‘ Wildlife Collection ’ by Alison Duguid . |
| 10 | Students will be able to select from a menu of language modules and modules with a European theme . |
| 11 | His pockets contained all he had been able to abstract from the apartment without attracting attention : his American passport and driving licence , though these would soon be useless when the alert went out , a wad of British money from Sam 's purse , his multi-bladed penknife and a pair of pliers from the fuse-cupboard . |
| 12 | The most intellectually satisfying explanation is that embodied in the doctrine of karma , in accordance with which the dead child may be regarded as having completed the final stage of a soul-life that , in previous incarnations , had almost earned its passage and , after one more brief sojourn , was able to escape from the cycle of death and rebirth . |
| 13 | What new developments in science would he be able to deduce from the features of my automobile and its contents ? |
| 14 | But the development of the law does seem to show that judges have been able to dispense from the necessity of justification under a public policy test of reasonableness such contracts or provisions of contracts as , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations . |
| 15 | Farmers are now able to reclaim from the Ministry of Agriculture 50 per cent of the cost of providing hedges , gates and stiles . |
| 16 | For example , when a child is playing so destructively with a toy that it is likely to break , if the natural consequence occurs and the toy breaks , the child is able to learn from the outcome of his/her actions . |
| 17 | By then , released from stricter vigilance , Nicholas had been able to move from the Citadel to the house of Katelina , and soon Abul Ismail was permitted to join him . |
| 18 | In production , learners need to choose the words which most suitably realize their intention , and this does not always entail the most closely related form ; in reception of language , given the human penchant for indirection , they also need to be able to move from the form to the function . |
| 19 | How far were you able to travel from the edge of the world ? ’ |