Example sentences of "to be [verb] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has even been known for an esteemed binder 's ticket to be transferred from a battered volume to a more handsome specimen with which he had no demonstrable connection . |
| 2 | The plaintiff had applied to a Mental Health Tribunal to be transferred from a secure hospital . |
| 3 | Mr Hughes added : ‘ It is through educationalists and the message they will relay to our young people that we can tell the truth of the strengths and benefits to be gained from a multi-racial , multi-cultural society . ’ |
| 4 | To judge from the faction of Nationalism Today , there might nowadays be financial or other advantages to be gained from a particular presentation of the conspiracy tradition . |
| 5 | From Philips ' point of view , DVI looks threatening because it enables full frame full motion video to be accessed from a standard CD-ROM . |
| 6 | The science of Radionics , now gaining respectability in some scientific circles due to the understanding that fields of subtle energy guide our consciousness , is a process which allows a total image of an individual 's life pattern to be recorded from a single cell or hair sample or any minute segment of the body . |
| 7 | On the other hand , imagine the embarrassment of calling a full-scale search out for somebody who is not only not in peril , but is mightily cheesed off to be awoken from a deep sleep by an RAF Sea-King helicopter blowing the filling out of their sleeping-bag ? |
| 8 | The Workshop aimed to draw on the experience of participants in exploring the benefits to be obtained from a deliberate encouragement of professional interaction between colleagues within and across , secondary schools . |
| 9 | Multiparametric flow cytometric analysis allows dynamic data on cell kinetics to be obtained from a single injection and biopsy specimen . |
| 10 | The term ’ prime cost sum ’ is defined in SMM6 as ’ a sum provided for work or services to be executed by a nominated sub-contractor , a statutory authority or a public undertaking or for materials or goods to be obtained from a nominated supplier ’ . |
| 11 | The Labour party 's document makes it clear that Labour has forgotten every word , and that is why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government . |
| 12 | Another reason why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government is that it is bad enough to have the type of nonsense that went on in Luigi 's restaurant happening when the Labour party is in opposition , but it would be especially ridiculous if it happened with the Labour party in government . |
| 13 | Greenpeace say urgent action is needed if one of the region 's rivers is to be saved from a disasterous level of pollution.The environmental pressure group says the law needs to be changed to stop the discharge of chemicals into rivers . |
| 14 | To possess someone in the mind is to be saved from a brutal repudiation in reality , and instead to love the ethereal , which can neither disappoint nor satisfy , but only act as a goad . |
| 15 | Bar service enabled various different rooms , or cabins within rooms , to be served from a central point ; many late-Victorian pubs had a sequence of separate private bars serve from a single bar-counter , in total contrast to the current fashion for single-room pubs . |
| 16 | It is totally different for visual recording , where a selection has to be made from a great range of possible pictures . |
| 17 | Such were the small gains to be made from a playing career at the very top . |
| 18 | The knowledge that the only help you could expect in times of trouble or need would have to be sought from a near neighbour ; and , even more fundamental , the bond of blood . |
| 19 | In the marble version the struts have been banished from sight by designing the statue to be seen from a restricted viewpoint . |
| 20 | It is necessary to appreciate these facts if social policy is to be seen from a sociological perspective . |
| 21 | The design runs one way along the rug , and needs to be seen from a particular angle for maximum effect . |
| 22 | If Cadwallon believed himself to be descended from a Votadini chieftain , he may well have wished to support the Votadini in their continuing war with the northern Angles . |
| 23 | The origin legend of the Merovingians as recorded by Fredegar is important not only for its suggestion that the family claimed to be descended from a supernatural ancestor , but also for the implications it has for the rise of the dynasty . |
| 24 | In his Sept. 11 radio broadcast Iliescu also strongly condemned proposals said to be emanating from a joint Hungarian-Polish-Czechoslovakian working group for the economic integration of Transylvania ( home of Romania 's ethnic Hungarian minority ) into an economic space to be created by the three countries . |
| 25 | His eyes seemed to be coming from a long way away . |
| 26 | He felt a peculiar sense of dislocation , and the sounds of those in the room seemed to be coming from a great distance away . |
| 27 | The Drayton Drain Easy kit consists of a stopper which fits into the cold feed pipe outlet of a cistern and a plug which fits over the end of the open vent pipe to allow , say , a radiator to be removed from a central heating system without draining down the whole central heating system , which could well mean losing all your corrosion inhibitor . |
| 28 | The name is believed to be derived from a personal name Sighel or Signup , and the second part from the thorn bushes which grew in abundance at the time , and dates possibly from the 7th century . |
| 29 | When Philip Jessup visited MacArthur in January 1950 the general stated that the Soviet Union should perceive the advantages to be derived from a Japanese treaty and he was sure that a diplomat like Jacob Malik would appreciate the position . |
| 30 | Its parliament , most of its ministers and nearly all of its higher civil servants , continued to be chosen from a narrow social class , which had drawn its income from industrial areas now derelict , from agriculture now unable to support its labourers and from an empire which was even more depressed than the " Mother Country " . |