Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
| 2 | There are no real features — a low relief gangway here , a slashed crack there , a stiffening of angle at two thirds height seize the imagination of the guide-writer more than that of the viewing climber , who will want to go from bottom to top by the smoothest and straightest way . |
| 3 | Eating disorders tend to come from childhood , or problems , or ways people have approached food in the past and the pressure is on women to be slim to fit into these categories are er , just more pressures that make it very difficult for somebody who has an eating disorder to sort the problem all these pressures just make it more difficult . |
| 4 | We concluded that women who are successful in political careers tend to come from middle- and upper-class backgrounds and from professional occupations ; they have either been able to rely on the resources and support of their families or to have minimised the handicaps deriving from women 's status within the family by remaining unmarried or childless or by entering public life later on when their familial obligations have , to a larger degree , been completed . |
| 5 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
| 6 | Finally , the manner of remuneration and , more important , the de jure employment status of contract computer staff tend to differ from agency secretarial/office staff . |
| 7 | Already ‘ wish lists ’ have been made where staff indicate what they want to see from agency status and these suggestions have been acted on . |
| 8 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 9 | On that basis , the male is programmed to go from nightclub to nightclub and bed to bed , scattering his seed about the place to produce as many new disco-dancing Lotharios as possible . |
| 10 | ELTEC WANTS TO DIVERSIFY FROM CORE TRANSACTION PROCESSING MONITOR BUSINESS INTO SUPPORT SERVICES |
| 11 | The tables are designed to exclude from comparison all the factors that influence examination results , particularly the social class make-up of a school . |
| 12 | Symptomatic patients with excessive DGR and a positive provocation test might be expected to benefit from treatment designed either to prevent DGR or to protect the gastric mucosa . |
| 13 | An office was at present out of the question ; she would need to work from home , relying on the phone . |
| 14 | The funds thus obtained , which would be repayable over a five-year period , represented only about 15 per cent of the estimated cost of making good damage to infrastructure [ see p. 38362 ] ; most reconstruction funding was expected to come from oil revenues . |
| 15 | With just four employees now , Goodfellow hopes that Sdirect will turnover £1m by the end of the year , 30% of which is expected to come from reseller deals . |
| 16 | For 1990-91 revenues and grants were forecast to increase by P653,000,000 over the revised 1989-90 budget to total P3,318 million , 63 per cent of which was expected to come from mineral exports . |
| 17 | Hairdressers , for instance , are permitted to work from home — providing they declare their income . |
| 18 | She needs to hide from reality but she also does n't want Mitch to see how old she is and the truth that she is hiding from : |
| 19 | In Stroud it has to come from hospital time . |
| 20 | The professor will be qualified for election as an official member of the board of the faculty ( which has final authority over the proceedings of its sub-faculties ) , and will be expected to serve from time to time on the various standing and ad hoc committees appointed by the board . |
| 21 | An example of a clause providing for the payment of a participating dividend is : The Company shall after making all necessary provisions for payment of the Preference Dividend ( including any Arrears ) and the redemption of the Preference Shares but in priority to payment of any dividend to the holders of Ordinary Shares , pay to the holders of the Preferred Ordinary Shares as from ( and inclusive of ) the accounting period ending … , subject to payment in full of the Preferred Dividend ( including any Arrears of the same ) pay to the holders of Preferred Ordinary Shares a cumulative cash dividend ( " the Participating Dividend " ) of a sum ( net of any advance corporation tax payable by the Company ) equal to … % of the Profit After Tax for each accounting period of the Company ; the Participating Dividend shall be deemed to accrue from day to day throughout each accounting period and shall become payable and be paid not later than four months immediately following the end of the accounting period to which it relates . |
| 22 | We want to hear from science graduates of recent years , especially those who have had difficulty in finding employment . |
| 23 | A police spokesman said the person police want to hear from drove past in a large , light-coloured estate car after pulling out of Bagshaw Road , opposite the bank machine . |
| 24 | With the brilliance we have come to expect from TV companies , it appears that the whole poptastic caboodle has been erased . |
| 25 | Apparently forged from a mad mixture of screamingly right-on individuals from West Coast hardcore outfits , Rage Against The Machine are everything millions of moshpit enthusiasts have come to expect from music , only several times better . |
| 26 | The wardrobe is designed to fit from wall or end panel to wall , and from floor o ceiling ( though in high rooms , you might want to finish short of the ceiling ) . |
| 27 | She wants to escape from home , and the least we can do is to let her stay here for a while . |
| 28 | This is true in 80% of the first related papers in Appendix 5 , where a total of 97 papers ( 30% ) appear to derive from field mapping . |
| 29 | This is true in 80% of the first related papers in Appendix 5 , where a total of 97 papers ( 30% ) appear to derive from field mapping . |
| 30 | Once new fields are delineated they come to be seen as natural , their boundaries appear to derive from logic , and a world in which they had no place becomes unimaginable . |