Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [noun sg] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOU TOLD ME YOU COULD GET IT FROM TOILET SEATS . |
| 2 | If you can drink champagne from plastic mugs |
| 3 | Just as you can remove sulphur from power station emissions so you can do the same with carbon dioxide . |
| 4 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 5 | We can distinguish monodentate from bidentate sulfate , or terminal from bridging CO ligands , and we can use variations in the CO stretching frequencies in metal carbonyls to make deductions about the electronic natures of the other ligands . |
| 6 | I do not see how we can separate principle from practice , policy from implementation . |
| 7 | They can just be people who believe they ought to reshape society from top to bottom . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I think they should switch attention from inflation to expanding the economy . ’ |
| 9 | Downing Street , ever sensitive to Ian Lang 's problems , meanwhile told Scots who pointed out that northern latitudes are colder than southern , that they should take comfort from Budget measures on whisky and the oil industry . |
| 10 | While they were at the mercy of erratic weather or changes in the migration routes of reindeer , so that they might suffer famine from time to time , they were generally well fed , more or less comfortably adapted to their environment , and enjoyed a surplus of resources sufficient to allow expenditure of time on the decoration of clothing and utensils on story-telling and dancing . |
| 11 | They will stay even-tempered from morning to night . |
| 12 | Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam . |
| 13 | He could trace descent from rabbi Simeon ben Isaac ben Abun ‘ the Great ’ of Mainz ( c .1000 ) and his family had produced rabbinic scholars for generations . |