Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] from " in BNC.

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1 The social welfare and material benefits which the imperialist state could grant to workers in Britain and Germany at the turn of the twentieth century allowed capitalism to survive because it divided Third World workers from their similarly exploited , if differently rewarded , working-class brethren in the industrialised centre of the world economy .
2 Boatswain ’ , no doubt knew how to entertain an audience , just as the Shatford Players had done : ‘ … after it was entangled in the net , it received seventeen musket balls from the Greyhound Cutter ’ ( Gosh ! ) ; ‘ … it was dragged to the shore by seven horses … ’
3 ( The timber roofing is not merely picturesque but intensely practical as it prevents heavy winter snowfalls from rendering passage over the bridge either impossible or very hazardous . )
4 DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities .
5 Toyota plans to make them at Georgetown when it doubles annual car output from 200,000 to 400,000 in the next few years .
6 It attracts many migrant families from the surrounding rural areas and as such is similar to many of the cities in Bangladesh .
7 Its two main features are that it lifts cooperative R&D ventures from the suspicion that they are illegal per se and puts them under the rule of reason , and it provides a registration system which protects firms from treble damages in the event that they are subsequently deemed to have violated the antitrust statutes .
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