Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] from the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Daddy , wisest and kindest of men , seemed to suffer from the same delusion . |
| 2 | Similarly , it is often the case that senior officials within the civil service all seem to come from the same sort of background . |
| 3 | They cooperate because they all stand to gain from the same outcome — the survival and reproduction of the communal body — and because they constitute an important part of the environment in which natural selection works on each other . |
| 4 | Even so , one of Britain 's foremost authorities on trees , Dr Oliver Rackham , warned in the Guardian in February 1990 : ‘ This time there will be no excuse or failing to learn from the former storm . |
| 5 | The genes in a pack of wolves do n't all stand to gain from the same set of events in the future . |
| 6 | Similarly , any interest on the overdue tax will cease to accrue from the same date . |