Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [indef pn] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had come to expect nothing from a disenfranchised people except violence and anarchy . |
| 2 | It is based on army issue shovels and although very compact could be used to dig anything from a small surface hole to a trench ! |
| 3 | Each of these seems to derive something from the interruptable time of the television chronotope , and its consequently segmented narrative . |
| 4 | With projects that are more than ten years old you should give a lot of thought to the problems involved , and then decide to build something from the current issue of Everyday Electronics instead ! |
| 5 | There is now a ‘ hassles and uplifts ’ scale with which ambitious social psychologists try to quantify everything from the down value of a lost shoe to the up value of a birthday card from an old friend . |
| 6 | In this respect Wilson seems to have learned nothing from the earlier failure of the NAS&FU . |
| 7 | He is being wooed by three counter-arguments : first , that when it comes to big , company-wide computer systems , customers still prefer to buy everything from a single , proven supplier ; second , that mainframes will remain at the heart of many of tomorrow 's systems , in which a network of PCs will be served by a central processor ; and third , that IBM is moving away from being hardware-dominated to become , increasingly , a one-stop-shop for computer consultancy and services . |
| 8 | Celia and Brassard , who had overheard everything from the outer office , exchanged rueful glances . |
| 9 | The complicating factor is the reader 's motivation : the effort that children will make if they need to obtain something from a particular book or periodical . |
| 10 | ‘ If we have learned anything from the last few years , it is that availability is the main occasion and the trigger for experimentation among the young . ’ |