Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [noun sg] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large leaves may need support from a cane or , in the case of ficus , can be gently rolled up with an elastic band . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's grossly unfair and discriminatory that cold take-out food should carry VAT from a hotel but not from anywhere else . |
| 3 | A more general proposal is that the court should infer guilt from a person 's refusal to answer polite questions about what happened , or their decision not to testify . |
| 4 | If you are going to pay off a debt through a prepayment meter , you should get advice from a Citizen 's Advice Bureau who will be able to negotiate with the supplier to ‘ calibrate ’ the meter to pay of any debt at a rate you can afford . |
| 5 | He 'll take candy from a baby , if there 's fifty cents in it for him . |
| 6 | we 'll drink tea from a flask |
| 7 | Guided by the tape , the student would examine his specimen , consult his workbook , compare with a slide , perform a task , consider implications and respond to questions ; he could stop the tape and replay it whenever he wished , and if he was really stuck he could seek guidance from a teaching assistant , or Dr Postlethwait , or a fellow student , or the library . |
| 8 | However , Mr Christopher could take comfort from a statement by the Syrian foreign minister , Farouq al-Shara , at a joint news conference , in which he refused to link the return of all the deportees to a resumption of peace talks . |
| 9 | Mr Redwood told Shadow Welsh Secretary Ron Davies , who pressed him to intervene , that stricken families could get help from a flood disaster appeal fund to be launched by the mayor . |
| 10 | They could involve funding from a number of different sources . |
| 11 | You may take interest from a foreigner but not from a fellow Jew ’ ( Deut. 23:9–20 ) . |
| 12 | These centres may attract finance from a variety of sources , mainly local authorities , and there has been some government funding . |
| 13 | Sensors on the craft bound for Mars would detect light from a flare and the crew could take shelter in a shielded room before the slower protons arrive . |
| 14 | The pipeline would take water from a gorge between the Victoria Falls and Lake Kariba on the northern border with Zambia and follow the route of a railway line south to Bulawayo , the country 's second city . |
| 15 | Also , when I buy a holiday home in France , I will need help from a solicitor to make sure my interests are protected in a foreign country . ’ |
| 16 | The present research takes the argument a stage further and investigates whether it is possible to predict the rate at which marriage between sets of ethnic groups will take place from a knowledge of the degree to which the groups are residentially intermixed . |
| 17 | Now , this may not seem to be a feasible solution , except for the odd application such as electric blanket or underfloor heating where full wave rectified unsmoothed 50 or 60Hz AC will produce heating from a mixture of 81% DC and 19% AC at 100 or 120Hz and above . |
| 18 | A hyperbolic mirror will reflect light from a point source at focus F so that it is dispersed from focus F . |
| 19 | If it can achieve this , and many of the packages will accept input from a variety of other programs , a large part of your current investment will be preserved . |
| 20 | Before diving , you can display information from a menu — in alphanumerics rather than symbols or graphics — by bridging a pair of metal contacts with moist fingers . |
| 21 | None of us can expect assistance from a Vala ; nevertheless in any kind of Mordor it is one 's duty to go on . |
| 22 | There are also options for resizing text , fitting text to a path or a curve , or you can import text from a word processing package and paste it directly into your drawing . |
| 23 | I can see danger from a train . |
| 24 | Many people eat bread , but how many people can take corn from a field and make bread out of it without help ? |
| 25 | ‘ You can get electricity from a generator and water from a spring , ’ says Marcus Lyon . |
| 26 | A. You can get advice from a building society , a bank manager , a local authority , or a new town development corporation about how large a mortgage they are likely to be able to give you . |
| 27 | If clients are able to pay the bill they can get advice from a solicitor as often as they desire and on whatever topic they choose . |
| 28 | I hope that he can accept comment from a colleague who through professional conscience has already lost many thousands of pounds since the imposition of the new general practice contract . |