Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One general index calculated from death and population information is the crude death rate . |
| 2 | Aurum Software Inc , one of the battery of new companies like ProActive Software Inc and Clarify Inc going after the nascent turnkey customer service management market , picked up $3.75m in first-round financing from venture capitalists Battery Ventures , Vertex Management and Cherry Tree Ventures . |
| 3 | Only the weather was ominous — the usual generous gestures of support received from congregation and friends were heartwarming . |
| 4 | Mitch recovered from surprise and dived into the leather shoulder-bag that contained his lenses . |
| 5 | Catechesis differs from evangelisation in that catechesis assumes that a faith commitment has been made by the participants . |
| 6 | This would eliminate the insiders ' opportunity to profit from insider news , which would have already made its impact on the market . |
| 7 | However , he also concludes that the precise relationship between these influences upon the decision to retire from work early probably varies between different sectors of the economy . |
| 8 | In their broadest terms they refer to the whole issue of the supply of labour : do taxes affect the choice of occupation , the individual 's drive for promotion , the number of hours worked , the rate of productivity , labour mobility , the decision to retire from work , to emigrate , and so on ? |
| 9 | Following the Olympic bronze medalist Denis Stewart 's decision to retire from competition after a poor performance in the world championships in Belgrade , two months ago , the No.1 spot was up for grabs . |
| 10 | Following the Olympic bronze medalist Denis Stewart 's decision to retire from competition after a poor performance in the world championships in Belgrade , two months ago , the No.1 spot was up for grabs . |
| 11 | The previous President , Manuel Pinto da Costa , did not contest the election , having announced on Feb. 2 his decision to retire from politics , following the unexpected defeat of his Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tomé and Príncipe — Social Democratic Party ( MLSTP-PSD ) in the country 's first multiparty elections , held on Jan. 20 [ see p. 37949 ] . |
| 12 | The election of Sir Michael followed Namaliu 's decision to retire from politics in order to spend more time with his wife who was seriously ill . |
| 13 | From there it is less than one Cessna hour to see from air the Bay of Islands , the Waitangi Treaty House ( where the historic treaty between Maori and British was signed ) , Cape Brett ( with its remarkable rocky island that has a hole in it you can sail ships right through ) , and thousands of acres of primeval forests of kauri trees . |
| 14 | These activities will be financed by an operating budget of Pta200 million ( £1.14 million ; $ 2.25 million ) , a half of which will be provided by Palma 's civic purse , with the remainder gathered from entrance fees and profits in the shop and restaurant . |
| 15 | Nottingham University 's Blind Mobility Unit has devised a system that produces ‘ touch maps ’ , raised plans formed from braillon plastic sheeting . |
| 16 | Since sexuality is so deeply inbuilt in us , it is there from the beginning and only its manifestations change from infancy to old age . |
| 17 | Then turn to page 18 and take advantage of two of her patterns offers from Vogue — both at a smart price — and produce six essential items for summer . |
| 18 | Forster and Lawton passed from view , soon to reappear in another corridor . |
| 19 | The icons change from level to level , but the effect remains the same . |
| 20 | The outcome of the discussions is a decision to proceed from phase 2 of the pilot programme into the new system without the need for a third pilot phase . |
| 21 | The more I puzzled about how best to paint the outback the more I realised the Aboriginals had got it right , making spiritual maps on the ground or on bark stripped from eucalypt trees . |
| 22 | ( The huge Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumeniferus , 5 ft long , with large air-filled pouch hanging from neck , has occurred in Palestine . ) |
| 23 | The explanation given for this splitting of conception from execution with large batch sizes was that ‘ the smaller the batch size is , the greater is the need for frequent conversion of machines to new tools , fixtures and parts programmes , and the less is machine-setting expertise differentiated from operating ’ ( Sorge et al. 1983 , 150 ) . |
| 24 | The RSPB , as part of its ‘ Campaign for the Countryside ’ , has recently called for two and a half million acres of farmland to be taken out of production and converted to wildlife habitats , a process to be paid for by money diverted from CAP into conservation . |
| 25 | Although the detailed patterns change from generation to generation — as both C clusters and D clusters expand , collide , and fragment — the asymptotic overall fraction of sites occupied by C , f C , fluctuates around 0.318 for almost all starting proportions and configurations . |
| 26 | Huge crowds flock from East and West to see the second half of the artist 's career |
| 27 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |
| 28 | Comic Jim splits from wife |
| 29 | The first room was a waiting-room , a ramshackle place where grey stuffing oozed from knife slashes across the plastic seats . |
| 30 | His eyes , deep in pouched skin bruised from alcohol , still glittered . |