Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added to this , a company may wish to cut its costs or to benefit from Government or local authority financial assistance . |
| 2 | That will depend on their view of the liquidity of both debt and equity markets : the more liquid they think these are , the less likely they are to sit on cash or to refrain from borrowing , and the more likely they are to pay large dividends . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there are many cases in which prerogative orders have been awarded against Ministers without any qualm or discussion of the matter ; but it does not follow from this fact that such orders operate as anything other than ‘ requests ’ to act or to refrain from action . |
| 4 | It is not meant to be an exclusive list , and nothing would please us more than to hear from readers about others — or their shortcomings , if the case deserved it . |
| 5 | His goal is no more than to conceal from others the discrepancy he feels between his own behaviour and what he knows to be the standards of his group , wider society , or religion . |
| 6 | So we are 60 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to die from salmonella ! |
| 7 | These varied from what was essentially the retention of the existing system with a few modifications , to an option referred to as a Commerce Railway consisting of about 16 per cent of the existing network ( meaning that to travel from Manchester to Leeds one would need to go via London ) . |
| 8 | That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House , to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it . |
| 9 | ‘ Some musicians find the constant changes and surprises inherent in Berlioz 's dramatic idiom disrupting , and find a logical development difficult to achieve and to sustain from beginning to end . |
| 10 | But do n't expect your fellow students to constitute a representative cross-section of the community at large — if only because they contain an above-average proportion of younger people and others who are most able to sustain continuous study and to benefit from college education . |
| 11 | The Tourism Section offers an equal opportunity to all existing eligible places to take part in its promotional campaigns and to benefit from advice which the Economic Development Unit may offer . |
| 12 | Indeed , the development of the Euro-currency market meant that most large organizations became increasingly aware of the possibility of switching funds between currencies in order to make capital gains ( or avoid capital losses ) and to benefit from interest rate differentials . |
| 13 | I think it clear , and indeed the Home Office Circular of 1930 explicitly states ( page 4 ) , that it is in order to secure this aim , and in recognition of the fact that a person in custody is in a specially vulnerable position , and hence particularly at a disadvantage in responding to questions in a balanced and measured way , that it has been thought safer both to prohibit questioning after a certain point , and to exclude from evidence answers given to such questioning . |
| 14 | Thus Barat and Haimet are nonplussed when they return in the dark of night , but Barat takes advantage of an absence of Travers to imitate his voice in the darkness and to elicit from Marie the secret of where the meat is . |
| 15 | They lack the opportunity to express their inborn urges to hunt and to flee from danger . |
| 16 | Called on all states and institutions not to recognize the annexation , and to refrain from actions which might be interpreted as indirect recognition . |
| 17 | It would be arrogant foolishness to ignore that experience and to start from scratch designing a stringing by ear . |
| 18 | There will always be the possibility that his spontaneous preferences will change with wider information or finer perceptiveness , and to retreat from awareness in order to cling to a highly-valued end will be one of the great offences against ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 19 | Trade union leaders , for example , are expected to regulate their members ' demands and to desist from strategies which are not agreed with representatives of business . |
| 20 | And to move from B to Z movies , connoisseurs of the bizarre can now lay in their own copy of Edward Woods ’ Plan 9 From Outer Space ( Palace , £14.99 ) , once voted the most incompetent film of all time . |
| 21 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 22 | Please also remember that Ash Wednesday , which is this Wednesday , is one of the only two days a year on which we are asked to fast and to abstain from eating meat . |
| 23 | In a theatre he frequently took refuge in a lavatory — not to solve his omnipresent bowel problems necessarily but to escape from autograph-hunters . |
| 24 | Magistrate Caroline Thornton-Berry told him : ‘ To steal is always wrong and despicable but to steal from people who love you is particularly low . ’ |
| 25 | ’ This , of course , led to the episode of the Flood , but to judge from Noah 's behaviour after the Ark landed , it was not a spectacular success ! |
| 26 | I 've always maintained the analogy that working with Fleetwood Mac was like movie making , because you have an idea , but to get from point A to point B you 've got to go through all these steps . |
| 27 | Given this , the clitoris was rather a problem , because to argue from biology and physiology gave one no defence against the fact that the clitoris was the female organ of pleasure . |
| 28 | This facility can be used to tidy up ( eg. delete names reserved more than 6 months ago ) and/or to recover from typing errors using Option 1.1.0 , Reserve Module Names ( eg. you mistyped FRED as FREDA , or reserved module PRODUCTPACKAGE as a Package , not an Issue ) . |
| 29 | ‘ I want Kinsella forced into a situation where he will have no option but to steal from IRB funds . ’ |