Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There is an increasing tendency on the part of regulatory authorities worldwide ( and not just revenue authorities ) to infer from the existence of tax haven-based structures that something shady is going on — and the greater the degree of secrecy built into the structure , the stronger the inference .
2 The secondary market tends to suffer from a lack of liquidity relative to domestic markets ; often even the lead manager of an issue is unwilling to quote two way prices .
3 The Barbados economy continued to suffer from a slow-down in growth during late 1989 and 1990 in response to the tight fiscal policies introduced by the government to protect the country 's foreign exchange reserves and balance of payments .
4 At every step I was told not to do it because I was bound to suffer from the kind of prejudice I was always talking about .
5 If you are flying to the east and crossing only one or two time zones or flying to the west and crossing three or less time zones , you are unlikely to suffer from the effects of jet-lag .
6 Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers .
7 Pompeii was not the only town to suffer from the rain of pumice and ash ; the fall-out in fact covered an area of hundreds of square kilometres and several other Roman settlements , but Pompeii was particularly badly hit because it was so close to the volcano and was down-wind of it , so that the ash-laden eruption cloud was carried towards the town by the prevailing wind .
8 But there are exceptions which have specialised needs — while all fish seem to benefit from a bit of variety now and then .
9 Even in Britain it seemed almost a law of politics under George II and George III that the Prince of Wales should act as a rallying-point for all those who hoped to benefit from a change of ruler .
10 Further , the parties had agreed not to allow a non-party to benefit from a waiver of immunity made in favour of the parties unless there was reciprocity .
11 We are , however , well prepared to benefit from a restoration of consumer confidence which is expected to follow resolution of the new administration 's policies .
12 BCP was one of the companies to benefit from a surge of interest in the equity market alongside increases in the foreign exchange market last week following the ERM move .
13 In theory they may stand to benefit from the nationalization of property ; in practice state ownership may provide less liberty and less efficiency than private ownership .
14 Of these the overwhelming one was the fact that the peasant farmer suffered most from the effects of the occupation , while the large landowners seemed , comparatively at any rate , to benefit from the system of occupation .
15 for these would be local schools , selecting about 1,000 pupils from an area that contained about 5,000 children of school age , the selection being made in terms of suitability for or ability to benefit from the kind of education to be provided .
16 Were Lascars and Chinamen to benefit from the improvements in food , accommodation , repatriation etc. which it provided for British seamen ?
17 However , to benefit from the range of choice in the trade-off between risk and return that options offer , rather more is required of somebody who invests in options than is required of an investor in futures .
18 A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates .
19 It is described by wildlife experts as the first animal to benefit from the collapse of communism .
20 In order for most families to benefit from the types of prevention activities described , they probably need to be made available to all families on a voluntary basis , and they probably need to be relatively non-obtrusive and in essence , common .
21 This is , I have to admit , one murky compartment of the female psyche which has yet to benefit from the oven-scourer of Reason .
22 With pressure from the market , the consultants and the manufacturers all weakened , then , any change in BEA policy would have to come from a change of heart at central headquarters .
23 Its legs — if it had legs — were covered in what looked like a large brown sheet , and the light seemed to come from a kind of lamp attached to the back of what could , or could not , be its head .
24 You see , you said the girl would have to come from a family of rank .
25 The latest White Paper to come from the Ministry of Transport is called Roads for Prosperity .
26 It seems reasonable to assume , therefore , that they are unlikely to come from the Author of Scripture .
27 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 .
28 One way of describing the ideal low-pass response depicted in figure 12.1(a) is through the relation This suggested to Butterworth that where n is a large integer , ought to constitute a good response to synthesise from the point of view of creating high-performance low-pass filters .
29 I hope that the hon. Member for Thanet , North ( Mr. Gale ) will resist the temptation to depart from the Bill under discussion .
30 It was partly because of this experience that he had no hesitation in supporting wholeheartedly the Roskill recommendation to depart from the principle of jury trial in complex fraud cases , against the ( ultimately successful ) Home Office view advocated by Hurd .
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