Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] from the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see profit as the prime motivation to LMS would be to detract from the sense of involvement and success that support staff may potentially receive from its effective management . |
| 2 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 3 | If time were to run from the accrual of the cause of action , i.e. when the expenses were incurred , summary proceedings might often be statute-barred before they could be brought , especially where there was an appeal against the demand . |
| 4 | Janet Jones , secretary of the British Tennis Umpires Association , is to retire from the post at the end of this year . |
| 5 | His profession is to profit from the person in the street . |
| 6 | The only way to reach the bottom rung is to jump from the roof of a wooden hut the builders occasionally use for storing things . |
| 7 | Another idea is to garner from the experience of those present what the obstructions are , how they can be side-stepped , and produce a guide to best practice aimed at employers . |
| 8 | Unless monetary payment is to pass from the wife to the husband ( for instance , as in a case where the house is in the husband 's sole name and the husband and wife agree that it is to be transferred to husband and wife and held by them upon certain trusts provided the wife pays the husband a sum of moneysee Chapter 7 ) , when the husband may require such money for his own purchase of another property , a contract between the parties would appear to be unnecessary . |
| 9 | We are told by the Government that we must be prepared to tolerate environmental devastation and a senseless waste of more than £1,000 million worth of extra public money because the Ove Arup route is necessary if prosperity is to come from the regeneration of east London and the east Thames corridor . |
| 10 | The only totally safe way to proceed is to exclude from the operation of the general exclusion clauses all those classes of liability for which the UCTA imposes a total ban on exclusion clauses . |
| 11 | The idea is to learn from the experiences of different client groups , not just one particular client group . |
| 12 | The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them . |
| 13 | To employ Popper 's terminology , it is to move from the world of subjective knowledge to the world of objective knowledge . |
| 14 | The most important chairman ( of the municipality ) was a Jlulat from Tazarbu , that is to say from the category of people least involved in the Kufran disputes . |
| 15 | By contrast , a writer whose allegiances ultimately lie with the bourgeoisie would necessarily understand political developments from the outside , that is to say from the perspective of an oppressive class . |
| 16 | ‘ And the true order of going , or being led by another , to the things of love , is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty , using these as steps only … ’ |
| 17 | It was appropriate warm-up garb , as the Run Barbados Marathon was to go from the point of this historical settlement ( established 1627 ) to Sam Lord 's Castle , built with the profits from a wrecker 's booty . |
| 18 | The main concern of their administration was to profit from the monopoly over cinnamon , the principal export commodity . |
| 19 | And now Vincent could realise another of his dreams , which was to draw from the nude in heated premises . |