Example sentences of "be able [to-vb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 2 | Almost the entire population listens to the Persian service of the BBC , and the BBC reports the latest broadside from the Ayatollah in Paris and such information from Teheran as correspondents have been able to sift from rumour . |
| 3 | In Cambridgeshire , Jack Ravensdale has been able to show from documentary references how the village plans of Cottenham , Landbeach and Waterbeach have changed and developed over the centuries . |
| 4 | Here one of them sacrifices for the other : both have trouble falling asleep , and their partner 's noisy breath wakes them ; so they wriggle towards the edge of the bed , leaving a broad space down the middle ; they pretend to be sound asleep , in the hope of making sleep easier for their partner , who will then be able to turn from side to side without disturbing the other . |
| 5 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 6 | The system must be able to recover from input which deviates from the stored representations . |
| 7 | So I would be able to respond from information received one evening , be able to produce the press release , press a button and hopefully it will go down the line if the technology will allow that . |
| 8 | ‘ If we did not , we would lose all continuity with our past , would only be able to live from moment to moment like butterflies alighting and flitting away , and no relationship or experience could have any permanent value for us . |
| 9 | ‘ I think I might just be able to totter from chair to chair , ’ she said , smiling sweetly at him . |
| 10 | Many may eventually be able to work from home rather than commute to an office . |
| 11 | They will be able to work from home using the firm 's computer equipment . |
| 12 | The new breed of skier expects to be able to ski from day two . |
| 13 | In the menu section , you will find a series of suggestions for packed lunches , and also for acceptable meals that you should be able to buy from snack bars or small supermarkets in the vicinity of your workplace . |
| 14 | If , however , the motor trader defendant is not responsible for turning back the mileometer and covers up the reading , the motor trader should be able to escape from liability on the basis that no false description was in fact applied to the goods ( s1(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if the deficit is located within the spoken word production system , the patient will be able to get from print to semantics correctly . |
| 16 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was only the most affluent who were able to benefit from refrigeration during the summer . |
| 17 | Fourteen trade cards issued by London undertakers during the period c.1680 to c.1760 survive , and as none indicate any other craft-affiliation it must be assumed that they were able to furnish from stock all that went to provide for a funeral . |
| 18 | The lucky part for me was that I was able to go from school and do what I wanted to do . |