Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] be [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of my question was to extract from the right hon. Gentleman what he thought was meant not by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department but the new clause . |
| 2 | Its complement was to rise from the initial 3,000 to 4,200 ( ie full peacetime strength ) one year later . |
| 3 | The main concern of their administration was to profit from the monopoly over cinnamon , the principal export commodity . |
| 4 | Their aim was to start from the bottom up and to grow a church that would be able in the end to plant other churches . |
| 5 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 6 | His profession is to profit from the person in the street . |
| 7 | President Carlos Menem of Argentina announced on Sept. 19 that his country was to withdraw from the NAM because the movement " no longer had any reason to exist " . |