Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [pron] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll be able to borrow it from the office downstairs and view it in the library . |
| 2 | With the binoculars that they carried , they must have been able to see her from the moment that she set out . |
| 3 | Going along the road , er on the A Nineteen , from the north towards er the village er if one assumed that there were to be some development on site D forty , would you be able to see it from the road ? |
| 4 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 5 | well yes and therefore they wanted the appeal procedure , erm to make it fair I 'm not trying to put words in your mouth but that , term , to eradicate the possibility that someone could be able to exclude it from the market unjustifiably |
| 6 | there is an opportunity of being able to screen it from the Farnsfield direction . |
| 7 | I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’ |
| 8 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 9 | Thank you for the silk , glad you were able to wrest it from the Governor before he set off to Lepcis Magna with it . |
| 10 | She was the one sister who was sympathetic to him ; that is , when he was able to detach her from the others . |
| 11 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 12 | Although the Court of Appeal expressed no opinion on it , the court was clearly concerned that the employer might possibly be able to protect himself from the use of the employee 's skill and knowledge post employment by means of express provision if the employee were simply to sell that knowledge as a commodity ( ie not use it as a means to gain further employment ) . |
| 13 | It had been his only relationship , a habit of natural loyalty founded in his childhood , further cemented by the dependence of the field officer on his Control , and never questioned in its foundations … perhaps because , in accepting the Colonel as his father-figure , he had been able to protect himself from the manner of his real father 's death . |
| 14 | Society may not through its laws be able to protect the sufferers from addictive disease from the consequences of their addiction nor he able to protect itself from the consequences of their actions even if the law is applied universally to all addictive drugs including alcohol . |
| 15 | Young skin is not only thinner but also has fewer pigment cells and is less able to protect itself from the sun . |
| 16 | He said I am sure I am sure that neither death nor life nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord . |
| 17 | ‘ Neither death nor life nor angels , nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come , nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God … ’ |
| 18 | A metre and a half of copper wire with wooden handgrips at each end went in his pocket plus a box of bullets for his Walther in case he should be able to reclaim it from the masthead . |
| 19 | When Tate took his leave , Eliot stood at the door of the drawingroom leaning on two canes ; Tate waved goodbye , and although he was not able to raise himself from the canes he smiled and made a movement with one hand . |
| 20 | It is meant for me , Lily thought : hardly able to drag herself from the journey she had just made ( bitter enough surely ? ) into the past . |
| 21 | Their navigational system may be simply an urge to move continuously into water that is minimally cooler , and they may also be able to orientate themselves from the direction of the wave surge and the pattern of ripples on the water-surface . |
| 22 | They were able to rescue him from the slurry within 15 minutes . |