Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience has shown that the 1110st suitable basis for comparison in this detection scheme is the current rise time ( the time taken for the current to rise from the lower to the upper limit of the chopping excursion ) , because this time is relatively immune to the influence of motional voltage , as illustrated by the Example at the end of this Section . |
| 2 | There is now little left for the creditors to salvage from the airline 's wreckage . |
| 3 | He was waiting for the crowd to disperse from the grave so he could say his own private farewells when a respectable old lady with a blue rinse came up to him and said , ‘ You do n't remember me , do you , I 'm Mrs Flaherty . ’ |
| 4 | In this case the conflict is between the urge to flee from the predator and the urge to attack it . |
| 5 | Regional health authorities are waiting for news of their allocation and meetings are to be held between the hospice and Darlington Health Authority chiefs this week to discuss details of the services to benefit from the extra cash . |
| 6 | There are few rivers which are able to maintain a course across the grain of the land to penetrate from the interior to the sea . |
| 7 | One of the benefits to emerge from the recent recession is that all the players in management buy-outs — vendors , management teams , financial backers and advisers — are far more experienced and sophisticated in their approach . |
| 8 | It needs the presence of the structuralist to interpret from the concrete , the abstract connections , continuities or ‘ unconscious structures ’ : |
| 9 | Having established by radio that the survivor was on a knoll at the north end of Burwick Holm George Williamson headed to the east of the island to approach from the more sheltered leeward side . |
| 10 | This had allowed one end of the pin to disengage from the buckle backplate , thus allowing the clamping lever to displace , effectively unfastening the belt . |
| 11 | David Hume went further , transferring causal power from the world of objects to the mind , making of it a tendency of the mind to pass from the thing we call ‘ the cause ’ to the one we call ‘ the effect ’ . |
| 12 | This sense of the need to depart from the past was reinforced by a prevailing sense of gloom in certain intellectual quarters about the city ; over time this informed the professions of architecture and town planning in particular . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , many on the Left could not fail to notice the consistent attempts of the Party to benefit from the Civil War . |
| 14 | In order to apply the test it is obviously necessary to get the designers of the material to specify from the beginning what the purpose of the recording is . |
| 15 | Letting all her breath out on an achingly shaky sigh , and telling herself firmly to pull herself together , that seeing a bride always made her feel weepy and was nothing whatever to do with Feargal , she walked along the landing to stare from the end window . |
| 16 | A similar mechanism may also yield the Ashen Light , a faint radiation at visible wavelengths and seen from the Earth to emanate from the night hemisphere . |
| 17 | In 1515 , we find a cow being left to provide a light before the rood to burn from the second peal to matins , and till high mass is done and from the second peal to evensong till evensong be done for ever more . |
| 18 | The shore was already becoming inaccessible as piles of ash accumulated , so he was forced to abandon his attempt , and turned to the south , running before the wind to escape from the increasingly heavy rain of ashes . |
| 19 | The Royal Scots were the third infantry battalion in the Army to convert from the older FV 432 to Warrior . |
| 20 | " This Meeting recommend to the Collector to procure from the County town Models of the Imperial Weights and measures , and to put them in the hands of Samuel Lamont , who is appointed to ascertain that all weights and measures within the Island be corrected and marked by the standard . " |
| 21 | Some contained far too much textual information ; some were read out ( there 's no need for this — the audience can read too ) ; and some speakers turned their backs on the audience to read from the screen . |
| 22 | The speaker presented a useful outline on screen initially , but far too frequently turned his back on the audience to read from the screen . |
| 23 | Daily we would hear the bang of the hammer on the anvil , and would run across the road to watch from the door , as the hot shoe was pressed on a patient cart-horse 's hoof , with the familiar sizzling noise and smell of burning . |
| 24 | After Muir of Ord JTR got off the train at Conon Station as did I , and walked down by the river to sketch from the Telford bridge of 1809 now replaced by a modern version built in 1969 . |
| 25 | Following his comments Shoob on Oct. 5 acceded to requests by the authorities to withdraw from the case and admitted that he had reached " certain preliminary conclusions " concerning the evidence . |
| 26 | Driven on by the desire to escape from the hardship of his peasant origins , Pierre Nizan pushed himself ever forward in a process of continual self advancement . |