Example sentences of "[vb base] from [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposals in the consultation document will go a long way towards improving the facilities and the standards that drivers expect from motorway service areas . |
| 2 | Matches at neutral venues , on the other hand , often have charged atmospheres as the contesting clubs bring along five or six thousand supporters and create the sort of scene we expect from cup semi-finals . |
| 3 | It also allows all the fading and mixing features you normally expect from broadcast television . |
| 4 | General practitioner fundholders already use contracts to spell out what they expect from hospital services . |
| 5 | If there is time , students should now be encouraged to go back to some of the more difficult Tape Units dealing with connected speech ( say from Tape Unit 12 onwards , missing out Tape Unit 15 ) ; they will probably discover a lot of things they did not notice before . |
| 6 | Grow from tip cuttings taken with a heel in spring or late summer , and plant in May . |
| 7 | Systems are build from board level products designed and manufactured somewhere in the Far East . |
| 8 | Can not help feeling Truffaut 's real talent lies in desserts : the conjuring up of trifles , and that what I want from cinema screen is more like roast beef . |
| 9 | ‘ We Germans can choose what we want from Supermarket Europe , ’ the top-selling newspaper Bild boasted . |
| 10 | Smoke from charcoal fires swirled from these windowless dwellings . |
| 11 | smoke from diesel engines exceeds certain limits ; |
| 12 | Workers at the industry 's central research unit wanted to determine how high-voltage transmission lines and smoke from power stations affect trees . |
| 13 | All the bedrooms benefit from colour TV and telephone . |
| 14 | And it allows companies both to contribute to and benefit from election campaigns . |
| 15 | Conversely , if we are concerned about ex post outcomes , we would not be happy about treating the person as receiving the average , or actuarial , benefit from government spending ( e.g. , on health ) , and would want to try to measure the actual provision in relation to need . |
| 16 | Doherty says everyone in the community should have a hand in nominating people and clubs for such awards — local tourism organisations , hotels and guest houses and others who benefit from angling tourism . |
| 17 | Four times as many people die from prostate cancer as from cervical cancer , yet it is under-recognised , under-researched and there is no screening programme . |
| 18 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |
| 19 | Each year , more than 15,000 women in Britain die from breast cancer and about 2,000 from cancer of the cervix . |
| 20 | Each year , more than 15,000 women in Britain die from breast cancer and about 2,000 form cancer of the cervix . |
| 21 | Er the speed they come out of that bend is unbelievable and I speak from experience Madam Chairman because my daughter lives on that very corner where the bend is and er |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend will not be surprised to learn that I speak from gut reaction rather than a detailed knowledge of the law or the statistics , but I believe that my gut reaction is shared by the vast majority of people in this country . |
| 23 | President and founder Bernard Liautaud , and director of UK operations , John Powell , hail from Oracle Corp , and it 's therefore not surprising the firm does most of its work at Oracle sites and with Oracle application developers . |
| 24 | President and founder , Bernard Liautaud , and director of UK operations , John Powell , hail from Oracle Corp , and it 's therefore not surprising the firm does most of its work at Oracle sites and with Oracle application developers . |
| 25 | In the chapter on working with young lesbians and gay men , the most common responses these young people receive from care staff are highlighted to show the way personal , misinformed attitudes can have a negative impact . |
| 26 | These problems aside , there would seem to be much support from CAB advisers for a well-publicised telephone system to relieve pressure and widen the availability of the CAB . |
| 27 | QBENCH from disk drive manufacturer Quantum gives a new perspective on disk drive performance . |
| 28 | Subjects range from toy trains , to the construction of a chair , to the abstract beauty of water washing down an asphalt schoolyard . |
| 29 | The windows range from minimalist efforts — a hand-written ‘ Bognor welcomes the clowns ’ poster — to life-size mannequins in full motley surrounded by all the paraphernalia of clowning . |
| 30 | Goods sold at parties range from household items ( saucepans , Tupperware ) to clothes , jewellery and cosmetics . |