Example sentences of "[verb] [vb -s] from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What income he has comes from heroin , extortion and other people 's thieving .
2 I found that the strictness with which these criteria are applied varies from region to region , and that the Department of Health is prepared to be flexible if you can argue a cogent case .
3 Nothing that we have said detracts from counsel 's duty in ordinary circumstances to accept a judge 's order or ruling made in the course of trial .
4 How these colours are used differs from regiment to regiment , and the examples shown represent just one variation for each state .
5 The trouble is that what is measured differs from medium to medium , and , therefore , cost measurements differ almost completely between , say , TV and posters in what they are costs of .
6 Obviously , it is a matter of judgement just what coverage , and what frequency to aim at — especially when you remember that the type of ‘ reach ’ being measured differs from medium to medium .
7 Successful students receive the profile assessment of their language skills , confirmed by a course certificate : the range of achievement that can be certificated extends from GCSE to post GCE A-level .
8 The number of youngsters sniffing varies from place to place and at different times .
9 But the way the roles are played varies from occasion to occasion according to which particular individual is playing which particular part at any particular time .
10 The actual length of time one is asleep before this level is reached varies from person to person .
11 The precise form this differentiation takes varies from community to community ; for example it is likely to be manifested differently in pre- and post-industrial societies and to vary in accordance with culturally determined roles assigned by societies ( see Coates 1986 for a general discussion of the issues ) .
12 The way in which such imputed values are found varies from case to case and is seldom straightforward .
13 The amount charged varies from lender to lender .
14 The extent to which these have been achieved varies from authority to authority but , in some , considerable progress has been made towards integration .
15 THE first prediction for the new decade to fall before the new decade has begun comes from World Soccer 's January edition .
16 Quoting Tony Golgan of the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland , the paper reported : ‘ Most of the radiation to which Irish people are exposed comes from radon seeping out of rocks in the ground — and not Britain 's Sellafield nuclear plant . ’
17 Yet the booklet also tells us , ‘ only a small proportion of the fats you eat comes from butter ’ .
18 Just how the distinction is established varies from system to system but usually " we " , the insiders , are treated as " true " kin .
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