Example sentences of "could [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The all-alloy 24-valve twin-cam engine is described by Cosworth as being of the ‘ high-efficiency ’ type , and follows the ‘ modular ’ theory — meaning that the basic design could suit anything from the three-cylinder unit to a V12 . |
| 2 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 3 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
| 4 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 5 | You could smell it from the far side of the room through its Father Christmas wrapping paper . |
| 6 | ‘ You could watch them from the window , ’ he says . |
| 7 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 8 | Maybe , maybe maybe I could do it from the theatre , would , would help |
| 9 | Jed could see them from the car , drinking beers and swapping jokes . |
| 10 | ‘ I could see them from the window in that place . |
| 11 | ‘ No , you did n't have to , you little bitch ; I could see it from the minute we arrived ! |
| 12 | You could keep it from the women , the hidden story of the cells and the cemeteries , of the club and the castor oil bottle . |
| 13 | Frankie wriggled free so that he could remove himself from the confrontation . |
| 14 | So if you know the graph of Y equals X squared which unfortunately I ca n't draw tonight it 's draw it for you , could draw it from the inside keep telling everyone else . |
| 15 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 16 | The whirlwind raged at the window … but although they strained to listen , they could hear nothing from the corridor beyond . |
| 17 | I was n't listening , but I could hear it from the dining room . |
| 18 | She could read nothing from the parchment of his face . |
| 19 | I could read it from the Oxford |
| 20 | I was thinking of asking Monica if she could record something from the the Model Car Club and |
| 21 | However , any observer who remained outside the black hole would not be affected by this failure of predictability , because neither light nor any other signal could reach him from the singularity . |
| 22 | Only a small proportion of his men were actually with him now , others coming in singly and in groups as they could disentangle themselves from the embroilment . |
| 23 | The pamphlet explained , in simple terms , how civil servants could protect themselves from the possibility of having their actions and decisions overturned by the courts . |
| 24 | But Ranulf was here and while Corbett bathed and changed his clothing , he wondered how Ranulf could protect him from the secret assassins now stalking him . |
| 25 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 26 | If only someone could release her from the shackles of loving Adam as easily , she thought ruefully . |
| 27 | But even at 2–0 , we felt we could get something from the game . |
| 28 | The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business . |
| 29 | They were fairly clumsy devices and only offered security from one side : anyone could unlock them from the other side . |
| 30 | The north-east was no place to refine one 's art , but the money was good ( if you could prise it from the agent ) and it widened my working circle ( if you survived . ) |