Example sentences of "from [adv] [being] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | SALES of new cars may be falling — 20 per cent lower last year than in 1990 — but Ford still leads the shrinking market , and derives some comfort from not being able to make enough diesel engines to meet the demand . |
| 2 | In such a situation , it may be that the anxiety springs from not being able to offer more support . |
| 3 | But he would never recover from not being able to afford her — or his apartment . |
| 4 | ‘ I think he already exacts a fair degree of pleasure from simply being able to make people jump whenever he calls them up . ’ |
| 5 | Knowing what you do wrong from the start of the lesson is a very different matter from actually being able to sort of say to yourself , right I 'm going to do that this time . |