Example sentences of "from [being] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I get satisfaction from being able to be involved in a number of activities in the part of the world where |
| 2 | I wanted to give back something for the great interest and happiness I have had from being able to make music to people . |
| 3 | Last September the company changed its status from being able to handle client money to only offering advice on personal finance products . |
| 4 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |
| 5 | You will thus benefit from being able to use your own behaviour as a powerful influence . |
| 6 | However , the therapist will benefit from being able to discuss the case with other members of the team or a supervisor in order to be given support and guidance . |
| 7 | Yet suspecting that a disease is linked to diet is a far cry from being able to identify the item of diet that has toxic or pathogenic properties . |
| 8 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
| 9 | Yet it is doubtful whether this argument outweighs the benefits a teacher gains from being able to concentrate his interests . |
| 10 | The idea was to prevent the Poles who managed to buy land from being able to inhabit it . |
| 11 | From being able to cope just about ) with everyday life they were tipped over the edge into breakdown , from which only a few were able to re-emerge . |
| 12 | By the way , next time a driver blocks an entrance to a property , preventing the people who live there from being able either to get in or out perhaps the driver would like to ask him or herself how they would like it . |
| 13 | ‘ Many nurses may find the task of entering the script onto the GP 's computer is delegated to them so the time saved from being able to prescribe starts to disappear . ’ |
| 14 | Moreover , the very isolation of Four Winds precluded her from being able to enjoy the facilities which even a town like Penzance might have provided . |
| 15 | I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 . |
| 16 | As mothers and doctors we benefit from being able to continue our medical careers while devoting ourselves to our families ; our patients have access to female doctors sympathetic to the experience of raising a young family ; and our practice is enriched by our contributions on the broadest range of issues from the clinical to the practical . |
| 17 | Aston 's usefulness to Ford will almost certainly come from being able to use AML 's highly- skilled engineering department as a technological test-bed . |
| 18 | AML 's usefulness to Ford will come from being able to use the highlyskilled engineering department ( left and below ) as a technological test-bed |
| 19 | For some people security and comfort can be derived from being able to anticipate events , for others ward routine can be a source of distress . |
| 20 | We are far from being able to specify all the things that actually take place in a learning situation , and ( as we saw earlier ) we have little knowledge of the implications of individual difference for our work . |
| 21 | This meant that preparation for future ‘ learning ’ could occur at the expense of present understanding ; on the other hand , not to take notes , but to concentrate on the lecturer 's words , would prevent students from being able to learn the work later . |
| 22 | It is unfair , to say the least , in a country that increasingly believes that incentives should be the dominant motive force , that the interaction of taxation rates and benefit eligibility levels should preclude the least privileged from being able to improve their own lot . |
| 23 | They prevent most of the underclass from being able to free themselves from welfare dependency . |
| 24 | The powers involved were under Section 52 of the 1971 Town and Country Planning Act : however , subsequent intervention in late 1981 by the Secretary of State for the Environment appears to have prevented planners from being able to specify the nature of occupiers of new housing . |
| 25 | I am by no means certain , however , he is right because , if he is right , the silence of the Act as to whether applications can be made ex parte or inter partes — which means , in my judgment , they could be either in appropriate circumstances — has been by the Rules cut down to deprive a party from being able to make an ex parte application . |
| 26 | They are fairly small , usually flat against the head , and far from being able to swivel or cock them , we can barely move them . |
| 27 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 28 | Another suggestion , favoured by Dr Roper on the basis of the radio-tracking results , is that in a large sett badgers benefit from being able to move from one sleeping chamber to another to escape fleas . |
| 29 | Other possible explanations are that badgers simply like large setts because they are better ventilated , and that subordinate females benefit from being able to breed in remote outlying chambers , well out of the way of dominant breeding females . |
| 30 | Instead , students will experience a high degree of satisfaction from being able to speak a number of simple phrases " like a native " , while realising that they are far from the ultimate goal ( Rivers 1964 pp 83–4 ) . |