Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Angell responded that it would not be feasible for Moscow to leap from the present unconvertible rouble to the complex Western system of floating exchange rates , or to a dollar or yen-backed rouble . |
| 2 | The crested ibis faces certain extinction in Japan after attempts to breed from the sole remaining pair have failed . |
| 3 | It also accounts for the extraordinary ability of shoppers to select from a huge array those goods most appropriate to themselves and their close friends or relatives . |
| 4 | As Tudge ( 1988 ) discusses , the facility of plants to regenerate from a few cells is related to the characteristic known as totipotency . |
| 5 | John Roberts , the company 's chief executive , said he expected ‘ tens of thousands ’ of customers to benefit from the new tariff , which is aimed predominantly at low income families . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If this is accepted , it is of value to move from the narrow base of this article to consider whether it is so in other areas . |
| 8 | Their own opening game , against Ireland in Dublin , is on February 3 — which gives the fly-half , Craig Chalmers , plenty of time to recover from a troublesome knee injury . |
| 9 | In a world of perfect competition it would not be possible for managers to deviate from the profit-maximization norm for any length of time even if they were tempted to pursue their own rather than the shareholders ' interests . |
| 10 | It is intended to make it easier for customers to migrate from a centralised to client-server system without major investment . |
| 11 | This much is stated by the Roman chronicler Tacitus , and thus constitutes the one sure assertion about Jesus to issue from a non-biblical , yet contemporary , source . |
| 12 | No matter what your business commitments , it is far more sensible to have one day at home in bed to recover from the worst of the virus than to struggle in to work , extending the recuperation period enormously and giving the virus to everyone else . |
| 13 | At the time he reached his last book , Human Knowledge , he had abandoned the claim that you could show that the world could be logically constructed out of sense experiences , and adopted a much more Kantian outlook , in which , while he erm said that all our inferences about the world must begin from sense experiences , all that the philosopher can do , is to make explicit the premises that are required in order to infer from the transitory data of my own experiences to the enduring existence of material things and the much more sophisticated kinds of existence which their minute constituents have . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Jesus is the Messiah who must suffer and die in order to rise from the dead and return to establish God 's kingdom on earth . |
| 16 | Her old father was extricating himself from the front seat slowly , painfully , gasping , as though he had to push open a heavy coffin lid in order to rise from the dead . |
| 17 | This , in turn , will make it harder for diggers to profit from the crude — and illegal — looting of ancient sites . |
| 18 | It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War . |
| 19 | Once Clifford had departed Palmer set to work to wring from the central government a series of concessions which , had he succeeded in obtaining them all , would have converted Northern Nigeria into a separate state . |
| 20 | McMahon then robbed Speed deep in City territory to begin the counter-attack from which Quinn scored a thrilling third , and the busy midfielder saved his best pass for the dying minutes when Brennan was on hand to profit from a piercing chip . |
| 21 | The result , which we obtain there , is that in general it will be rational for agents to infer from an own price higher than initially expected that there have been both positive aggregate and positive relative demand shocks . |
| 22 | Figure 2 b shows the crystal size that must be exceeded for crystals to escape from the thermal boundary layer for a magma with viscosity of 30Pas , this being typical for basalt . |
| 23 | ‘ It is pretty clear they have got the message from institutional shareholders , ’ but he warned that it could take years for Barclays to recover from the bad lending made in the late 1980s . |
| 24 | Having most of the action Ballymoney lost their concentration and gave the ball away for McNaugh to finish from a tight angle . |
| 25 | Go to any demonstration worthy of the name these days , and you are swamped by offers to buy from an intimidating array of news sheets , statements or appeals published by informal associations . |
| 26 | 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 . |