Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [indef pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
2 | I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’ |
3 | Plumber 's snakes can be hired , though might be a tool worth owning — you may be able to improvise something from a length of net curtain wire with a hook at the end . |
4 | It would be difficult to prove anything from the VW — it got pretty crumpled going down the hill . |
5 | And she would have little illusion about being able to save anything from the low wages she would receive from any of the available jobs . |
6 | The idea has effectively been ruled out by the Commission 's clear reference to the need for a ‘ common economic policy ’ , but the myth that it is possible to separate one from the other persists in Britain . |
7 | This , ICL claims , ‘ allows you to keep all choices a la carte ’ , but it also provides the user with support — each user is free to take anything from the range he requires , and although they can have a personalised user interface , the products are integrated and conform to uniform design . |
8 | They sometimes had secretaries who could imitate their master 's hand so perfectly that it is difficult to tell one from t' other . |
9 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |