Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One either is or is not legally entitled to an American passport , or to benefit from a will ; difficulties , if any , crop up in satisfying the qualification . |
| 2 | For example , they pretend to feed a doll or to drink from an ( empty ) cup . |
| 3 | He had been invited either to refute the allegations publicly or to withdraw from the elections , and reportedly chose to take the second option . |
| 4 | It is as follows : that the decision to turn off a ventilator is , in fact , a decision to terminate the life of a patient or to remove from a patient the last thread by which he held on to life . |
| 5 | So he has little or no time to release the glider , or to recover from the dive unless the upset occurs above about 500 feet , and then only if the rope breaks or the glider releases . |
| 6 | For instance , it may be legitimate to generalize from a finite list of observation statements referring to litmus paper turning red on being immersed in acid to the universal law , ‘ Acids turn litmus red ’ , or to generalize from a list of observations referring to heated metals to the law , ‘ Metals expand when heated ’ . |
| 7 | There is much more to gain than to lose from the proposals for co-decision . |
| 8 | I am sure that to conceal from a child the fact that he is adopted is both foolish and cruel . |
| 9 | Members of congress are , in any event , likely to be in awe of the president ; a direct telephone call from him will carry special weight as Tip O'Neill reports : ‘ The men and women in Congress love nothing better than to hear from the head guy . |
| 10 | All courses have an underlying philosophy that emphasises the positive value of bilingualism , recognises the importance of anti-racist approaches to curriculum , materials and methods , acknowledges the role that mother tongue may play in learning and draws attention to the fact that bilingual students may have already studied the subject in their own country and need to transfer knowledge rather than to learn from the beginning . |
| 11 | They are much easier to buy , in most cases , than to collect from the doctor . |
| 12 | I can do no better than to quote from the trust application document . |
| 13 | This doorway was made high in order to permit laden waggons or carts to enter the barn and to unload from the threshing floor into the bays . |
| 14 | The decree was intended to wipe out the illegal cash holdings of black-marketeers , and to drain from the economy up to 20 per cent of the money supply , which had become bloated by the printing of new money to cover budget deficits in recent years . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it is likely that he was quick to accommodate himself to the victor and to profit from a new source of patronage . |
| 16 | And to extract from the DOPACS function codes , anything which was n't within the scale of B. |
| 17 | The Branch Clubs have continued to receive the support of the Committee of Registered Clubs Association and to benefit from the work of the All Party Parliamentary Committee for Non-Profit Making Members Clubs . |
| 18 | I learnt that people think it is very important to have money and to come from a good family . |
| 19 | Energy radiating from one focus is reflected by a hyperbola as if to radiate from the other focus . |
| 20 | In contrast to the UK , German industrial policies seem to be more consistent and to evolve from a strong , integrated network of organisations . |
| 21 | The closeness of consumer and producer has made it easier for the Registry to expect and to receive from the Computer Centre a computing service of commercial standards , especially in terms of quality and meeting deadlines . |
| 22 | For this purpose auditors are entitled , under section 237(3) , to inspect the company 's books and to require from the company 's officers such information as they think necessary for the performance of their duties . |
| 23 | as if to escape from the great pool of light , the destroyer gathered speed , but it moved with her , red , green , and orange tracer streaming into her sides . |
| 24 | The cutting , too , has meaning : fast , significant , hinting , pausing for an instant on an idea then darting away as if to shrink from a risky suggestion . |
| 25 | And here we may note that the definitions of what constituted a Soviet national appear to be unique and to derive from no other known document or authority . |
| 26 | The president is taking the key decision as to whether to increase his forces in the Gulf and to switch from a defensive to an offensive posture . |
| 27 | Even forty or fifty years ago , middle age arrived in the forties , at which time it was normal to develop a comfortable middle-aged spread and to withdraw from the sex and beauty stakes . |
| 28 | It is also traditional to burn spices for the deceased ; to cover the mirrors ( or soap them ) ; and to remove from the house any photographs of the deceased . |
| 29 | Every member I have spoken to believes it is in all our best interests to maintain the profession 's high standards and to remove from the register any auditor who has little or no regard for them . |
| 30 | The development of normal reading and writing is usually held to be multiply determined and to arise from the mastery of a number of subcomponent skills , such as detailed visual analysis , effective motor control , linguistic skills--ranging form sentence comprehension to phoneme discrimination . |