Example sentences of "to extract [noun] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A consensus seems to have emerged that some kinds of blue-green algae started to extract hydrogen from the planet 's richest resource , the oceans . |
| 2 | Preobrazhensky also wanted to use the market mechanism to extract surplus from the peasants so that state industry could accumulate and grow . |
| 3 | Under the agreement , Fisons has given English Nature 8,000 acres of lowland peat bog on Thorne and Hatfield Moors , in Yorkshire , but with the reservation that it will continue to extract peat from the site for a further 30 years . |
| 4 | When establishing a subsidiary , local legal and taxation regulations must make it possible to set up a profitable subsidiary and allow the parent company to extract profits from the country . |
| 5 | One sign of the degree of power and independence of a legislature is its capacity to extract information from the government . |
| 6 | Rather the assertion is that explicit training is not necessary to produce discrimination , that the need to extract information from the environment is enough to do so , independently of any externally imposed rewards or punishments or of knowledge of results more generally . |
| 7 | Whereas the recovery of alluvial gold could safely be left to the Iberians of the Guadalquivir , the Douro or the Tagus , the Romans found it necessary to exercise much closer control to extract gold from the mines of Asturias . |
| 8 | It was he who went on to train me to the point where I could begin to set in motion a way to extract revenge from the blanc nations , and ensure that no one would so betray us again . |
| 9 | Between 1313 and 1322 , with the help of Archbishop Reynolds , Edward II tried to extract grants from the clergy by means of their parliamentary proctors , but so obstinate were their objections and so counter-productive , politically as well as financially , were these attempts that by 1322 the king was content to seek subsidies through clerical assemblies and not parliament . |
| 10 | That shows how much energy is available , and it is very attractive to try and harness this , but since the turn of the century there have been over a hundred patented devices to extract energy from the waves , but we still do n't have a single commercial one operating . |
| 11 | At night the beaches flamed with bonfires lit to extract lime from the coral , which was then mixed with coconut oil to form the white cement with which the hulls were caulked . |
| 12 | To extract heat from the rock , two j-shaped boreholes have to be drilled into the rock , several kilometers deep . |