Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duties of a trustee may be indefinitely varied by the terms of the instrument which creates the trust , and may range from a mere duty to make a legal conveyance to the beneficiary at his request , and in the meantime to permit him to possess and enjoy the property , to extensive and onerous duties of management , sale , investment , and application of capital and income . |
| 2 | For the searcher who goes on and comes to believe , this is the only possible starting point — a sense of need which may range from a mild discomfort to a deep conviction , but which spurs him to look for a solution beyond himself . |
| 3 | They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed . |
| 4 | However , translators with different linguistic backgrounds should benefit from a brief exposure to both points of view . |
| 5 | Graeme Souness 's men must recover from a 4–2 first-leg Cup Winners ' Cup defeat against Russian champions Spartak Moscow in front of a sell-out 38,000 Anfield crowd . |
| 6 | I appeal to the Minister to give at least some consideration to how far the environmental statement should come from a neutral source rather than from the promoters . |
| 7 | They vividly recorded the perplexed reactions of evacuees , from one woman 's uneasy comment , ‘ there 's too much grass about ’ , to the London boy who was horrified that milk should come from a dirty cow and not a clean bottle . |
| 8 | As we have seen , higher education in Latin America is predominantly the prerogative of the rich and , so , to have the opportunity to display merit , the Latin American businessman must come from a wealthy background . |
| 9 | The person ( of any age ) must suffer from a mental disorder as defined in the Act and enforced guardianship must be necessary for the welfare of the patient or the protection of others . |
| 10 | Mrs Thatcher is one of the few senior politicians who takes pride in stating her political convictions and insists that policies should derive from a coherent set of principles . |
| 11 | Alternatively , cements may nucleate on grains as separate , or disconformable , crystals ( Fig. 5.24a ) , or they may grow from a few nucleation points so that they enclose the grains as poikilotopic cements ( Fig. 5.24b ) ; they may be the same mineralogy as the grains they enclose . |
| 12 | There are two possible benefits which may result from a moderate rate of inflation or from learning to live with the prevailing rate of inflation rather than adopting policies to reduce it . |
| 13 | The memory loss we all begin to experience with age may result from a similar impairment of the cholinergic system , which may also be altered in Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 14 | It allows for a multiplicity of different causes acting in different combinations on different people in different situations ( it even allows that every particular criminal act may result from a unique constellation of antecedent causes ) . |
| 15 | If retirement does not inevitably involve economic dependency , then it is easy to see how retirement may result from a positive choice by those people who believe they will not suffer any substantially reduced ability to consume . |
| 16 | If you register immediately you 'll benefit from a whole year 's worth of tax free interest for what 's calculated on April the fifth . |
| 17 | AS ONE might expect from a professional prosecutor , Barbara Mills , the Director of Public Prosecutions , last week called for defendants to lose the right to choose trial by jury . |
| 18 | As you might expect from a Swedish manufacturer , the heating and ventilation are superb ; you can supply cold air to the face and warm air to the feet at the same time . |
| 19 | The other inhibition is more pragmatic : fear of unlimited losses on short positions that might result from a sudden market rally . |
| 20 | Such official intervention may in theory reduce the degree of exchange rate volatility , and so partially reduce the uncertainty in world trade that might result from a free float . |
| 21 | It 's just that we thought the programme might benefit from a new face . |
| 22 | Though Wimbledon 's players , after a few bottles of Beck 's lager , no doubt named after Cambridge 's late , lamented manager John , are not most people 's idea of convivial company , one does wonder whether manager Ferguson and his uptight team might benefit from a little relaxation a la Jones . |
| 23 | He saw the advantages that England might gain from a successful coup in Scotland by them , which would take their political pressure off him at home . |
| 24 | I like to have a fairly tough action , and for slide I 'll string from a 16 gauge top to a 58 bottom . |
| 25 | This might vary from a simple assessment to a formal safety case . |
| 26 | The apples were harvested in autumn by using long poles to shake the branches of the trees , and then reduced to pulp in a cider mill , which might vary from a small hand machine to a large mill driven by horsepower . |
| 27 | I E you 're not really looking at a feudal economy in the south any more i it may be a much more heavily commercial capitalist economy and therefore the kind of land reform programme that you might incorporate from a feudal north might not be entirely relevant . |
| 28 | Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that users may transfer from a first access term to related terms , and to broaden or narrow the search parameters . |
| 29 | The type of material used for this project is up to the whims of the individual , and may run from a soft cedar to the more expensive hardwoods , or a combination of woods , depending on the grain pattern and colour contrasts desired . |
| 30 | In the meantime , some clues to the requirements of the UK business community may emerge from a nationwide survey being carried out with hundreds of quoted and unquoted companies , by accountants , KPMG Peat Marwick . |