Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [noun sg] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association . |
| 2 | ‘ At Motherwell Food Park , we can buy our gas from an Aberdeen-based company and our electricity from London-based Southern Electric . |
| 3 | Second , it was badly planned and not enough thought was given to how the team would make their escape from a remote island like New Zealand . |
| 4 | In fact , it wo n't affect her pay-off from the Royal Family in any way . |
| 5 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 6 | In this notebook , recording my random thoughts day after day as I work on the big glass , I can keep my distance from the big glass . |
| 7 | To explore further what the object of study of the structuralists is , I will first follow its development from a common ancestry in the particular approach to language that originates in the work of Saussure and the members of the Prague Circle . |
| 8 | Whether the Halls , who remain the major shareholders with 42pc , will withdraw their support from the Second Division club remains to be seen . |
| 9 | No more than two minutes ' flying time later , we can reconfirm our position from the high ( 200ft ) power lines crossing a main road immediately underneath us . |
| 10 | If the profit margins of manufacturers are too drastically reduced they may move their capital from the industrial to the financial sector ; if the political power of the unions is legislated against they may make their power felt at the economic level by going on strike , or at the political level by withdrawing from established parliamentary parties and so on . |
| 11 | The National Trust stand at the Chelsea Flower Show between 20 and 24 May will take its inspiration from the Chinese Garden at Biddulph Grange and there will be the usual display of gifts , publications and an information point dispensing up-to-date brochures and events lists . |
| 12 | It is no accident that Jane Austen 's last , unfinished , novel , Sanditon , should take its name from a new resort of speculative buildings , and that the leading speculator should have abandoned his contented old house , with its English verdure , comfort , and lack of prospect , for a new eminence and exposure in a villa ornee on a cliff-top , with an up-to-the-minute name , Trafalgar House . |
| 13 | She made no answer , letting him read her opinion from the scornful lift of her eyebrows , not trusting herself to speak . |
| 14 | You can take your pick from the following : Anger , page 4 , Boredom , page 23 , Depression , page 49 , Feeling hurt , page 64 , Guilt , page 80 , Inadequacy , page 88 , Inhibition , page 90 , Jealousy , page 97 , Worry , page 175 . |
| 15 | Gossips down in Houston insist that Compaq Computer Corp will announce its withdrawal from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative within a couple of weeks because its business is making very high volume personal computers , and it ca n't see the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines ever reaching those kinds of volumes ; no-one was available to comment at Compaq but its strategy has been shifting over the past year — the investment in Silicon Graphics Inc has been sold , and founder and president Rod Canion was ousted from the company after differences over strategy . |
| 16 | On the other side of the argument it is inconceivable that the ancestor of the people of God , and through him that nation itself , should receive their name from a local demon of an insignificant wadi . |
| 17 | Let us extend our example from the previous section where there are only two goods , films and meals . |
| 18 | Eventually , we shall build our clientele from the richer people of Swansea . ’ |
| 19 | From Hobbes , whose Leviathan he describes as ‘ the greatest … masterpiece of political philosophy written in the English language ’ , he inherits the authoritarian aspects of his theory , the outlines of his distinction between state and society , and the rejection of the view that civil association must derive its authority from the inherent justice of some ‘ higher ’ law or a set of fundamental values . |