Example sentences of "be able [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please state which regional final you would be able to attend from the list below , and provide a second option in case it is not possible to accommodate you at your first choice of location . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | During the previous debate , it was said that trains would be able to proceed from the north-west , with a bit of dodging about in Hampstead , to King 's Cross . |
| 4 | It was at least pleasant to be able to shelter from the rain . |
| 5 | Erm and as you will probably be able to deduce from the publisher , is a an historical romance . |
| 6 | As I have explained in Working Paper 43 , and developed in Organizing Resources , this indexing system depends upon the initial production of " features lists " , or lists of subject headings , the subject facets which it is desired to be able to retrieve from the system . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Usually , you lose the widow 's pension at the time of a divorce , though you may be able to benefit from the lump sum payment on death . |
| 9 | Certainly it will not only be a gift for the elderly to receive a visit , but also we visitors will be able to benefit from the wisdom and life experience of the elderly members of the Church and society . |
| 10 | The visitor has the appropriate skills to be able to benefit from the use of the facility and its services . |
| 11 | 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 . |