Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 An account of how Dostoevsky extrapolated his lifelong leading themes of somebody to be and somewhere to go from Cervantes 's huge rhetoric of quest , would be doomed from the start .
2 Well more misery for Forest another defeat more injuries less to go from strength to strength and we 'll be right back .
3 The change is light and precise although , if you 're lazy , the 16-valver is flexible enough to pull from 1000rpm .
4 In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools .
5 Someone who had been determined enough to escape from Colditz was unlikely to be put off by losing a couple of potential candidates , so the next in line was pushed forward .
6 It seemed far too insignificant to be holding back a lake large enough to stretch from London to the Scottish borders .
7 Quill-written characters consist of a series of more-or-less straight strokes , simple enough for a computer to turn into numbers and analyse , but complex enough to vary from scribe to scribe .
8 For example , a solicitors ' practice operating out of High Street , Falkirk , may feel it has a lot less to fear from terrorist attack than , say , one in the City .
9 The two men 's inability to make common cause illustrated one of the main reasons why the government had less to fear from oppositionists than the radical manifestos of 1861 – 2 appeared to suggest .
10 ‘ Ai nt no VietCong ever called me a nigger , ’ was his simple , but penetrating , reason for not accepting the draft for which he was stripped of his world title and forced into inactivity for three years ( only to return from adversity and carry on boxing , often successfully , for world titles until aged 38 ) .
11 Entitled ‘ The Boy With The Thorn In His Side ’ , it saw Morrissey 's deliberately obvious autobiographical lyric sliding neatly over to flow from Marr 's continually inventive mind .
12 Topaz made up her mind at once not to cringe from Beatrice .
13 Insiders are in a privileged position ; they are under a moral duty to act responsibly , and not to profit from information which they receive but do not own .
14 ‘ We surprise clients by recommending them not to proceed from time to time , ’ he says .
15 If we are not to infer from Anderson 's breach of Grice 's Co-operative Principle that he is deliberately being rude ( unlikely , when McKendrick is a complete stranger to him ) then it is most likely to be seen as evidence of his vagueness or , less favourably , his self-centredness .
16 Also , you will need to be particularly careful with your diet if you are not to suffer from fatigue .
17 Skol 's sales were up by 4% , thanks largely to demand from couch potatoes .
18 Exhibitions are not strictly speaking sales settings because the prime objective is not to sell from display stands .
19 Soon to depart from Sicily , the Luftwaffe 's most successful fighter pilots over Malta during the Spring of 1941 pose with Italian friends .
20 This allowed Philip Neill through to win from Stephen McCreery and Jess .
21 The petitioner asked for an order not to remove from care and control of petitioner .
22 No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school !
23 We raffled a car at Christmas in the John Radcliffe and collected everybody 's money , and we did n't have too many qualms of conscience about that , but one 's got to be very careful not to beg from patients , but I think er fun for all , a lottery is fun and we feel perfectly er acceptable towards this very worthwhile project when we 're given the cheque on Monday .
24 Reality , though , need not be as hopeless as we think , even if it does appear to take longer to recover from injuries and the task of regaining fitness seems to take an eternity .
25 In a 4,000 word decision , the Californian Court of Appeal ruled that in some instances the threat of homosexual rape is fearsome enough for a prisoner to seek justifiably to escape from jail — The Times .
26 Bleach are the first truly mind-boggling band ever to come from Ipswich , an archetypal Suffolk market town , once home of Bobby Robson and erm , that 's it .
27 The total was 418 , and there was better still to come from England .
28 Sartorially , he had still to progress from desert boots to Kickers .
29 His eyes were grey-green , like Finn 's , but had warm brown flecks in them and looked straight and candid ahead , as though they saw too directly to look from side to side .
30 The only German prisoner ever to escape from Britain , described in the book The One that Got Away , made his first attempt from Fetherstone .
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