Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I am sure we are all keeping our fingers crossed for the fledgling states of Eastern Europe , it is exceptionally hard to see how a group of dissidents could draw inspiration from the lyrics of Lou Reed . |
| 2 | The NHS could purchase services from the private sector in order to clear waiting lists for particular ailments or to obtain access to specialised equipment possibly not available in NHS hospitals . |
| 3 | The princess could receive income from the Duchy of Cornwall which make about Pounds 3 million a year for Prince Charles , who voluntarily surrenders 25 per cent in tax . |
| 4 | For the wealthy , there 's the garden of intrigue , a permanent display costing forty thousand pounds which was set up last year by a local nursery.Those with tiny gardens and less money could gain inspiration from the series of patio gardens designed for the show . |
| 5 | Even the numbed fingers could feel pain from the sharpness of the metal . |
| 6 | Shareholders could remove Sugar from the board , but Amstrad without Sugar would have no flavour . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the growing emphasis on the achievement of targets could divert attention from the more substantive concerns of railway management with running a service to ‘ meet the needs of industry and the public ’ , as BR 's aims and objectives put it ( BRB 1980r : 5 ) . |
| 8 | Where the wife was the erring partner , the husband could seek freedom from the obligation to provide such support . |
| 9 | Foxbat could swipe satellites from the skies like irritant flies ; take the Russians leap-frogging ahead of the planned space shuttle programme . |
| 10 | The notice of appeal sets out a number of grounds , but before dealing with the appeal on the merits , I was asked at the outset to rule on what the nature of an appeal from the justices under the Children Act 1989 is , whether it is an appeal in which fresh evidence could be called , that is a full rehearing in the sense that the Crown Court could hear appeals from the juvenile court under the old law . |
| 11 | It would also be helpful if departments could receive feedback from the senior house officers on the quality of their education . |
| 12 | Planters could anticipate services from the black population ‘ in a better and safe form ’ through the conversion of ‘ a set of dangerous slaves into useful , industrious labourers ’ . |
| 13 | Of schooling in the East Riding in the 1790s , it was later recalled : When the labourers ' children could obtain employment from the farmers , the school was abandoned , and the youthful pupils were sent to cut weeds in the cornfields in the spring ; to frighten away the birds from the standing corn ; then to assist in harvest operations ; and next to glean the fields which had been reaped . |
| 14 | Defeat for either of the mid-table sides could spell expulsion from the fringes of a pack contesting the most open title fight for years . |
| 15 | Some Wardens could supervise matters from the reasonable comfort of homes such as Ferniehirst outside Jedburgh ; but Hermitage castle , the ‘ Strength of Liddesdale ’ in the middle of inhospitable fells and mosses , was one of the most chill and sinister strongholds in all Scotland . |
| 16 | Apart from Westminster , the channel could relay reports from the European Parliament , the US Congress — and one day even the Supreme Soviet in Moscow . |
| 17 | Likewise , every enthusiast for Britain 's future ascendancy in the world through the Commonwealth could take heart from the fact that a notable nationalist had been charmed into submission by a representative of the Crown . |