Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] from [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is there much to be gained from explanations of Wordsworth 's ideas which imply that he was in some way different from ourselves . |
| 2 | As yet there is no other body to undertake this task , and even tentative moves to remove the problem from the cell block and into the detoxification centre foundered in the entrepreneurial 1980s ; for there is little immediate profit to be made from reclamation of this kind of scrap material ( although the long-term value of a humanitarian return might be thought to be well worth pursuing in a civilized society ! ) . |
| 3 | To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders . |
| 4 | Finally , the benefits to be achieved from clarity of roles and greater accountability which accompany the separation of purchasing from provision may be achieved at the cost of much higher transaction costs between what are now separate organisations . |
| 5 | This was to be repaid from savings of £7.5 million which were expected to accrue on the achievement of the closure . |
| 6 | Royalties yet to be received from sales of The Shamen 's limited-edition FACE EP , which has sold out , will go towards paying off our own legal bills . |
| 7 | On this occasion … the police saw their legal-democratic duty quite clearly : in their terms , it was to maintain the rights of all parties to the dispute — those of Grunwick 's boss to continue production with his remaining labour force , of pedestrians and road-users to ‘ perambulate freely ’ , of the pickets to peacefully make their protest , and of the community as a whole to be protected from scenes of public disorder . |
| 8 | The truest ‘ greens ’ are those who recognise that we need to be protected from aspects of the environment , of which the rat and the louse represent the unacceptable face . |
| 9 | First , the benefits to be derived from economies of scope and scale ; and secondly , the spreading of risk , achieved through diversification . |
| 10 | The effects of low site symmetry are the same as those to be expected from distortion of the symmetrical molecule to a less-symmetrical form . |
| 11 | Increasingly funds for new developments had to be found from redeployment of services and savings . |
| 12 | Five of the nine infants have been shown to be deleted from part of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene ( table II ) . |
| 13 | There was also great concern about the practice of concubinage , although here our major evidence has to be drawn from tales of confrontation between holy men and members of the Merovingian royal family . |
| 14 | The moral to be drawn from polls of that sort is that spending money on roads is going to win votes . |
| 15 | Thus the EC Commission and Council , not content with amending the Consumer Credit Directive to specify the equation which must be satisfied for a correct statement of the annual percentage rate of charge and the items that are to be excluded from computation of the total charge for credit , threaten a further Directive prescribing a single mathematical formula for calculating the A P R. But why ? |
| 16 | Strong criticisms are also voiced about the benefits to be reaped from economies of scale . |
| 17 | There are many lessons to be learnt from accounts of buildings knocked down with no care for wall paintings and historic artifacts , and certainly no interest in their architectural importance . |