Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a child is considered ready to transfer from the Institute to a regular school : — |
| 2 | Malik showed willing to attack from the start , driving Mallender through the covers like a rifle-shot , and treating Munton the same way . |
| 3 | Yet many librarians seem content to select from a supplier 's selection , and to surrender professional responsibility for their service to the suppliers , allowing speed and ease of supply to take precedence over comprehensiveness and depth . |
| 4 | BSDI is reportedly getting set to move from a beta to a gamma version of BSD/386 either this week or next . |
| 5 | Many materials have been produced for different languages by individual teachers : these have been shown to succeed in the very specific circumstances facing a particular teacher/author in his or her classroom , but it has not so far proved possible to generalise from the successes in terms of easily accessible materials usable by different teachers under differing circumstances . |
| 6 | With a formal ought it seems possible to move from the anormativity of crude , fact-based positivism to a position short of the material ought of natural law . |
| 7 | ( There is a story , which it has proved impossible to verify from the record , that Lloyd opened one meeting with these staff by declaring ‘ this is not a democracy ’ . ) |
| 8 | Incommunicado , which Hogarth saw fit to sing from the top of a heap of loudspeakers , blustered along with lots of fists punching the air , but was basically turgid . |
| 9 | Experiments in which the wax is removed from the fly larvae show that the larvae immediately become vulnerable to attack from the ants , and they quickly try to re-cover themselves . |
| 10 | Only the Maronites felt able to drink from the cup of French tutelage and even they quickly found that the chalice contained a special , colonial poison , the effects of which would be passed on to future generations ; for by adding such large areas of Muslim Syria to the new ‘ Lebanon ’ , the French ensured that the Christians ' precarious status as the largest religious community would — once the Muslim birthrate increased — be lost . |
| 11 | The court , however , with misgivings expressed in the judgment of Oliver L.J. , at p. 1194D , felt unable to differ from the judge 's findings that the letters were never received : see p. 1194B : There was also a serious dispute as to whether the judge was entitled to reach his findings that the father did not have independent advice or that he was subject to undue influence from the son . |
| 12 | I wanted a cigarette ; I had finished my packet and desperately wanted one to dull my hangover , but felt reluctant to cadge from the Corporal . |
| 13 | In 1862 , aged 69 years , bad health compelled Betsy to retire from the way of life she loved . |