Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The act of investment usually involves abstaining from current consumption in order to acquire assets , which raise the productive potential of the economy , and therefore the possibilities for future consumption . |
| 2 | Those who are interested in doubt only from a practical standpoint may want to pass from this definition of doubt as doublemindedness directly to an examination of the categories of doubt in part two . |
| 3 | The assistance given ranged from financial assistance for the procurement of legal advice to the issuing of court orders . |
| 4 | Whereas unit production costs tend to benefit from increased volume of production , distribution costs tend to worsen . |
| 5 | He looked half determined , half afraid , as if I was a lion which he as assistant keeper was helping to escort from one zoo to another . |
| 6 | This combination of lower costs and increased market share makes the business well placed to benefit from any improvement in trading conditions . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many inquiries the ’ 199 ? ’ hotline has received from small businesses in Essex . |
| 8 | In the last decade , Denis Healey has developed from prop-forward bruiser to everybody 's favourite uncle . |
| 9 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 10 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 11 | More people own shares but , as a percentage of the number of shares held , the individual shareholding has fallen from thirty percent in 1979 to eighteen percent today , and if all these shareholders c turned up to exercise their right and their power at the annual meeting of British Telecom or British Gas , or any other , to say , we think it 's outrageous the sort of money that you are now paying your chairs and your directors , what would happen ? |
| 12 | The number of those less optimistic has fallen from 30 p.c. to 24 p.c. , while a significant 9 p.c. say they are uncertain about the outlook and four in 10 are uncertain about their own company 's prospects . |
| 13 | In April 1990 the Guardian carried a leader in which it described the ideal citizen as conjured up by Mr Hurd as ‘ active but elusive ’ : ‘ Apart from a minor sighting in a speech by John MacGregor , the Active Citizen has vanished from public debate as if he had never been . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know , maybe the time was better for making music than it is now , there was less touring , not this hysterical feeling that everyone needs to jump from one place to another , or the lure of too many good orchestras — maybe it 's true that there are now more good orchestras than good conductors . |
| 15 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 16 | Now such a delay is risky because the pace of innovation has quickened and the profitable life ofa new drug has dropped from 15 years to three or four . |
| 17 | Per capita consumption of whale meat has dropped from 2 kilograms in 1960 to 0–63 kg in 1978 . |
| 18 | For instance , the playing time per hour at Wimbledon has dropped from 7.18 minutes in the 1970's to 3.55 minutes , whereas at the US Open , which used to be played on grass , it has actually gone up slightly from 8.14 minutes to 8.18 minutes . |
| 19 | Much of the improvement has come from increased sales into furniture foams , explained , commercial manager . |
| 20 | New and more productive cereal cultivars have contributed their share to improved yields , but the biggest share in developed countries like the United States has come from increased use of fertilizers — 55 per cent between 1965 and 1976 , according to the New Delhi paper quoting an FAO estimate . |
| 21 | In a recent study of all Higher Education Institutions it has become quite clear that the main impetus towards Equal Opportunity Policies has come from female members of staff or particular unions representing female members ( CRE , unpublished ) . |
| 22 | Endorsement of the award has come from many sectors of industry , including Stirling Gallacher , chairman of Sutcliffe Services Group Limited , who says that people are the key to our current and future success as leading contract caterers . |
| 23 | Much of what we now know , in a still difficult and very controversial area , about different kinds of ‘ televised violence ’ and their differential effects on differently situated children , or about the effects of different kinds of political broadcasting — party statements , electoral reporting , definitions of the ‘ main issues ’ — has come from this kind of research . |
| 24 | The most widely used plastic additives , in volume terms , are plasticisers and consumption in this sector is expected to increase from 984000 t in 1991 to over 1m t by 1996 . |
| 25 | Wimpey revealed that its building programme has slumped from 10,000 houses in 1986 to just 2,800 in the first half of this year . |
| 26 | The bulk import business has grown from 45,000 tonnes in 1989 to 243,000 tonnes in 1992 with animal feed , milling wheat and malting barley being the main commodities . |
| 27 | In four years , he has grown from 16 staff to 40 , and plans to add at least 10 a year for the next three years . |
| 28 | Since the turn of the century , it has grown from 50,000 people to 14 million . |
| 29 | Since the same policy is now given statutory expression in section 34 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , which will come into force on 1 October 1992 , he will presumably not seek to depart from this policy in the meantime . |
| 30 | Metal Office Equipment Limited , which has operated from rented premises for about ten years , is looking to develop land at Chiswick Avenue , Mildenhall . |