Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private borrowing is likely to rise by the same amount and may rise by even more if the privatised company is able to borrow freely from the market rather than relying on the government . |
| 2 | In the second group , there were those countries , like Kenya , who had never been able to borrow much from the banks . |
| 3 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 4 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 5 | That demanded constant attention , and yet the Prime Minister must also be able to stand back from the pressure of events and think about the future . |
| 6 | Erm yeah so so so you might be able to find out from the institute |
| 7 | What have you been able to find out from the parents ? ’ |
| 8 | Women would increasingly in the future be recruited into the new semi-skilled jobs , often at piece rates , so that employers were able to benefit both from the job 's lack of a craft tradition behind it , and from a work-force trained from childhood to regard anything they did as unskilled . |
| 9 | I was able to benefit greatly from the work already completed by this group and by the advice and encouragement which they provided . |
| 10 | The hope among many is that Lamont , or as looks increasingly unlikely , his successor , will be able to pull back from the second rise when he comes to the December 1994 Budget . |
| 11 | After a leisurely breakfast at your hotel you will be able to walk straight from the dining-room on to the course . |
| 12 | Both were able to walk away from the wreckage but were taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment . |
| 13 | Make sure the topic is something common that you may be able to use apart from the exercise . |
| 14 | summer , giving myself the immeasurable luxury of being able to start early from the hotel , still burping porridge and bacon , and return to a hot dinner , a steaming bath and a cosy bar full of fellow hill-walkers . |
| 15 | Labour supporters must be in despair at not being able to race away from the Tories in the run up to the election . |
| 16 | Under PNP , schools have been able to break away from the traditional conception of primary school professional life centring on just two roles : those of head and class teacher . |
| 17 | When he has good selective movements in his hemiplegic leg , he may be able to get down from the bath seat into the bath tub . |
| 18 | In the initial post-war period , young people were a relatively ‘ affluent ’ group who were able to earn more from the 1950s onwards than they had done previously , thus creating the phenomenon of the ‘ teenage consumer ’ ( Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ We succeeded because we were elected to the Lebanese parliament and we were able to take over from the Turks and French in their ministries . ’ |
| 20 | The group around Harry Pollitt and Palme Dutt was able to take over from the older leaders , Inkpin , Bell , and MacManus and to commit the Party to the new tactic of the " United Front from Below " . |
| 21 | She needed several things she had not been able to bring away from the Holborn house ; chemises , petticoats , nightgowns , drawers , a frilled nightcap that had taken her fancy , stockings , handkerchiefs . |