Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have already been more than 50 attempts to extort money from America with nuclear threats , some frighteningly credible . |
| 2 | The crew salvaged some food and had a barbecue on which they grilled fish and birds using timber from the boat . |
| 3 | Discourses gain status from the relative power of the group with which they are associated — and as a general rule the media tend to favour the discourses of the elite . |
| 4 | • Pethidine — usually given as an injection , it takes about 10–20 minutes to provide relief from pain . |
| 5 | IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture , rival to the SQL Access Group 's RDA , is beginning to find its way into third party products , and Object Technology International Inc and XDB Systems Inc each announced products to provide access from their database products to IBM 's relational database managers — see page two . |
| 6 | Not having the culinary skills to extract nourishment from this household item she passed on to her second request ; could she have money to buy uniforms for her kids to go to their new school ? |
| 7 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 8 | He was well over six feet , his hair was black and his eyes gleamed amber from between luxuriant lashes . |
| 9 | Tata Elxsi , based in the electronics boom town of Bangalore , Karnataka , is already manufacturing compute servers using technology from Silicon Graphics . |
| 10 | A Colorado State bill which would allow fruit and vegetable growers to claim compensation from anyone who falsely maligned their products has been vetoed by the state 's Governor , Roy Romer , on the grounds that it constituted a threat to free speech . |
| 11 | It had long been a tradition for Roman emperors to claim descent from the gods , and on that basis to claim godhood for themselves as well . |
| 12 | Their leader , Tran Van Giau , used extreme methods to enforce compliance from the people which probably went beyond the policy of Ho . |
| 13 | The tragedy happened as 100 Hibernian fans travelled south from Edinburgh for their team 's UEFA Cup match against Anderlecht in Belgium . |
| 14 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 15 | In Colchester , where Red Lion Books has competition from both Waterstones and Dillons , Peter Donaldson reported sales on a par with last year : ‘ A week before Christmas we were about 15% down , but we were saves by strong last-minute sales . ’ |
| 16 | Both authors drew inspiration from the riverbank and the wildlife in Christchurch Meadows in Oxford . |
| 17 | In the initial stage , Fig. 8. 18A , breaking waves excavate material from the sea floor and form a submarine bar , which is slowly built up until it appears above sea level ( Fig. 8.18B ) . |
| 18 | Young Gers earn praise from Smith |
| 19 | Strathbeg is connected to the sea by Rattray Burn , and before 1700 the loch was part of a tidal estuary , well used by Roman , then Viking warships seeking refuge from storms . |
| 20 | I scoffed at such nonsense , and leapt up the beach , lanyard in hand , only to fall flat in the surf , as the waves turned sand from firm to quick . |
| 21 | Systems have used information about the orthography of words to select output from a pattern recogniser in various ways . |
| 22 | to deal with entries entailing exemption from part of the Course on behalf of the Polytechnic Dispensations Committee , to set appropriate conditions for such entries and to report them to the Dispensations Committee ; and |
| 23 | We soon learn that the huts give relief from yet more mosquitos , but compared to central Lappland insects these are either timid or full-up . |
| 24 | This is partly due to the ability of pulses to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere , which feeds the rest of the mixture , and partly due to the little-understood symbiosis between ‘ companion plants ’ . |
| 25 | These transmit coded signals containing information from highly accurate atomic clocks on board . |
| 26 | East Anglia is one of the biggest pig producing areas in the country , particularly for outdoor pigs , and more than 50 per cent are growing lean and strong thanks to compound feed from Burston . |
| 27 | The clients get satisfaction from participation ( or , perhaps , participate as a result of their satisfaction ) , take part in a learning process which enriches them , and identify with a process in which they themselves are involved . |
| 28 | Other life insurers to draw encouragement from the bid were Britannic , up 27p to 520p , and Refuge Group , 26p higher at 604p . |
| 29 | Subjects covered range from healthy eating to natural beauty and exercise , as well as aromatherapy , acupuncture , kinesiology and reflexology . |
| 30 | South Koreans promote trade from a newly opened embassy in a quayside hotel . |