Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the Rev. C. G. Hamilton having at the suggestion of the Governors agreed to retire from the Headmastership on a pension , the Governors beg respectfully to suggest £150 per annum as such pension , and ask the advice of the Charity Commissioners on the subject . " |
| 2 | Speeds greater than zero correspond to flow from the west to the east . |
| 3 | We tend to work from the Centre in the friendly critic role . |
| 4 | My examples tend to come from the part of the world where I live , but the same principles apply wherever you happen to be . |
| 5 | The factoring industry , which speeds the flow of cash to business , should be well placed to benefit from the ending of the recession — when it comes . |
| 6 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 7 | They should be well placed to benefit from an increase in the number of direct point-to-point flights . |
| 8 | The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building . |
| 9 | In view of the exhortation by the hon. Member for Southampton , Test ( Mr. Hill ) a few minutes ago that we should buy British when we buy food , I wonder whether the Minister can tell the House what representations he has received from the Ministry of Defence on his consultation document ? |
| 10 | The injustice to the home-owner is sometimes made worse by the fact that very often he has n't the money to pay for the repairs and has to borrow from the bank in order to pay the bill . |
| 11 | He points to the way in which the law has developed from a maze of individual sets of circumstances in which one or other of the prerogative writs would lie to a general principle under which courts will review decisions on the three grounds of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety : see per Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410 . |
| 12 | Much of the thinking about teaching historical concepts has developed from the work of J.S. Bruner in the early 1960s . |
| 13 | The management or sociological approach to educational evaluation has developed from the discipline of industrial sociology . |
| 14 | Pat Goodman , head of New Zealand 's Goodman Fielder Wattie food group , has withdrawn from the fray in Britain after buying a stake in Ranks Hovis McDougall , mounting a bid which was stalled by the Office of Fair Trading then pocketing a profit by selling his shares to Sir James Goldsmith and partners . |
| 15 | It 's not just that he has withdrawn from the business of running a diocese , or that he walks abroad a great deal at night but is scarcely seen during the day , or that he often wo n't accept phone calls . |
| 16 | As in that sequence ( 1 — 17 ) , so in this ( 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ) the I is suppressed altogether , the Thou has fallen from a pedestal to the gutter . |
| 17 | In its short life the EMS pound has fallen from a peak of DM3.03 to as low as DM2.86 . |
| 18 | Employment among lone mothers ( now 42 per cent ) has fallen from a peak of 49 per cent in 1979–81 although it is now higher than the low of 39 per cent in 1983–85 . |
| 19 | Since this treatment was introduced , the number of fatal overdoses has fallen from a peak of 192 in 1978 , to 152 in 1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 20 | The number of occupied psychiatric beds in England has fallen from a peak of 148 000 in 1954 to about 55 000 in 1990 . |
| 21 | Tree-planting has fallen from a peak of 29,000 hectares in the year to March 1988 to 17,300 hectares in 1992 , following the replacement of tax incentives for planting by a grant system in the 1988 budget . |
| 22 | First , the length of time which couples spend in shared accommodation has fallen from an average of almost three years for people who married before 1955 , to around one and a half years for people married in the late 1960s ( p. 12 ) . |
| 23 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 24 | They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back , and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't ! |
| 25 | They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't ! |
| 26 | Solbourne Computer Inc 's vice president of marketing , Travis White , has resigned from the company for personal reasons . |
| 27 | PAT Grant , the joint managing director of the Caithness-based freezer manufacturer , Norfrost , has resigned from the board of Highlands and Islands Enterprise . |
| 28 | The magnitude of the decrease has varied from a fall of 88% in the white population of USA to a much smaller decrease in Norway . |
| 29 | Human regard for the sea has varied from the taking of it for granted as a tiresome obstacle to trade and exploration , to romanticising it in what so many writers are pleased to call its moods . |
| 30 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |