Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] from the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Photo ’ regulating — it allows the skin to benefit from the positive effects of daytime whilst preventing the formation of free radicals . |
| 2 | Cattle stealing provided certain groups in rural areas with an opportunity to benefit from the economic changes along the coast and in the central highlands , but it did not long survive as an organized business once a district was penetrated deeply by plantations . |
| 3 | I pull my battledress jacket over my head in a forlorn attempt to escape from the tiny tormentors ; sleep is impossible . |
| 4 | We have clear descriptions of Charles from his chroniclers and contemporaries ; he is probably the first powerful figure to emerge from the Dark Ages as a completely documented ruler . |
| 5 | Consequently , if young children really do lack the ability to handle explanations , their capacity to benefit from the early years of schooling will be severely restricted . |
| 6 | Why , unicyle hockey of course : yes this is the latest sport to come from the playing fields , or grounds , of Oxford . |
| 7 | We scrambled over the chockstone of the Eye onto the plateau and wandered over shimmering snowfields to drink from the icy waters of the Garbh Uisge where it emerged from a shadowy blue tunnel before tumbling from the plateau . |
| 8 | Neither the post-Stalin ‘ thaw ’ , nor as yet Gorbachev 's perestroika , has led the historical establishment to depart from the basic propositions of the Marxist-Leninist interpretation . |
| 9 | The most conspicuous group to emerge from the 947 names on the Prime Minister 's list — about 30 more than usual — are key figures in the traumatic aftermath to the terrorist bombing of Pan-Am 's Flight 103 over Lockerbie last December . |
| 10 | A progressive tax on the more productive regions and peasants might have been more just and welcome from the political point of view , but it was not applied for fear of removing the incentive to sow from the better-placed peasants . |
| 11 | It is thus precisely through a clearly registered refusal to withdraw from the day-to-day pleasures of thinking , listening , looking and feeling that the sensual references within these paintings remain anchored within socially experienced and theoretically informed sensibilities . |
| 12 | It is already library policy to operate from the two sites , London and Boston Spa , there is room for expansion at Boston Spa . |
| 13 | The Southampton branch refused to send delegates to the Annual General Meeting at which its complaints were to be discussed and addressed a letter to the meeting in which the branch committee advised Southampton members to secede from the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union in order to establish a local and independent society . |
| 14 | Douglas referred particularly to Carl Prean 's recent decisions to withdraw from the national rankings and forgo the English Top 12 tournament at the end of the year . |
| 15 | Although the trilobites were so successful , they were by no means the only armoured creatures to develop from the segmented worms . |
| 16 | One of the few signs of encouragement to emerge from the reported cases considered here is that some current employee inventors can not easily be ‘ bought off ’ by employers anxious to avoid compensation claims . |
| 17 | Thus it would be perfectly possible for a sexist to argue from the very findings reported in this chapter that women make poor leaders and high-pressure salespersons because of their lack of assertiveness , whereas they make good carers ( nurses , home helps and so on ) because of their sensitivity to the needs of other people in conversation . |
| 18 | After peering through our binoculars , we decided it was on its way to the lowest ledges to scavenge from the roosting sites . |
| 19 | The film recovers only in the brilliantly Hitchcockian scene when Michael , in a crowded theatre , pretends to believe that the blowing , twisting red ribbons behind a vindictive ballerina ( Tamara Toumanova ) really are the fire that they represent , and panics the whole crowd in order to escape from the secret police . |
| 20 | So far , employment had shown less tendency to migrate from the central cities , but this process was soon to quicken . |
| 21 | As a star opera director whose career is becoming increasingly orientated towards the theatre , it is understandable that he has n't often found the time to stray from the great metropolises to mount a production . |
| 22 | Their actions , however , were inhibited by hostility to change from the civil servants of the Local Government Board , supported by their ineffectual President , John Burns , once the fiery socialist leader of the dockworkers , the first working man to enter a Cabinet but no longer a radical on social issues . |