Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [noun] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the number of volunteers exceeded the number required , the company would be prepared to move drivers from quarry to quarry to make up the numbers . |
| 2 | Much of what has been deduced about the institutionalized authority held by bishops in the late fifth and early sixth century , over and above their canonical jurisdiction , depends on episcopal epitaphs : it is not easy to distinguish fact from topos in such documents . |
| 3 | It is likely to attract criticism from members on the grounds that it exploits the plight of the unemployed by using them as cheap labour at the same time as removing them from the unemployment statistics . |
| 4 | The visitors , seeking their ninth win in ten League games , are likely to switch McGrath from centre-back to midfield to combat McMahon 's aggressive runs . |
| 5 | Buying some of the more popular brands privately was likely to cost women from £81 to £135 a year , it found . |
| 6 | Lone parent families are more likely than two parent families to depend on social security benefits , and are less likely to have earnings from employment as their main source of income . |
| 7 | If an investigation requires embryos to be sexed and chromosome preparations are considered unhelpful due , for example , to the Y chromosome not being distinctive , or efforts to C-band are not considered worthwhile , it is possible to separate females from males by the presence or absence of sex chromatin . |
| 8 | This ban did not include Madeira and so British merchants were able to ship wine from Madeira to the American colonies . |
| 9 | Studies of attempts to co-ordinate the efforts of various professions concerned to protect children from injury by their parents have suggested that particular professional practices , activities and terminology may intensify communication problems . |
| 10 | The " explanatory survey " , as its name implies , is concerned to gain information from respondents in order to test some theoretical explanation and represents the full-blown expression of variable analysis in the survey tradition . |
| 11 | The argument against commodity bundling is that by offering a bundle of goods at a lower price than the sum of the prices for the components of the bundle the supplier is able to prevent competition from producers of individual goods within the bundle . |
| 12 | In the latter I was shocked to find letters from contenders for the distinction of Nottingham 's oldest graduate who were only a year or two older than I. Maybe I ought to record some of my own recollections as a student in the Physics Department of University College Nottingham during the academic years 1928 to 1932 . |
| 13 | These are proving particularly popular with younger disabled people , and a special hoist is available to lift people from wheelchair into boat if needed . |
| 14 | There were hardships on the island due to supply problems from Lisbon of goods such as petroleum , car tyres and spare parts and other imported commodities . |
| 15 | These schools smack of privilege , hinder the ecumenical movement , encourage sectarianism , make if difficult to counter claims from others for similar treatment and militate against an integrated society . |
| 16 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 17 | It is difficult to get help from charities towards funeral costs . |
| 18 | One of the major drawbacks is that no good bowel contrast agent is commercially available and it is therefore frequently difficult to distinguish tumour from loops of bowel . |
| 19 | There will be cases where it will be necessary to obtain reports from consultants in different areas of expertise . |
| 20 | Please note that I can not undertake to reply to individual queries from readers however I will do my best to answer questions from readers through the medium of this column . |
| 21 | It should however be noted that while profit maximization is not regarded as a goal , it is accepted in managerial theories that there is a profits constraint , either because a minimum level of profitability is a condition of survival of the enterprise , or to necessary to protect management from loss of office through take-over . |
| 22 | In 1971 Thomson found it necessary to reduce publication from weekly to monthly . |