Example sentences of "[vb base] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stripped a combination of primer and varnish from a plywood screen with comparative ease . |
| 2 | Two men were last night helping police investigating a till snatch from a wine shop in North Shields town centre . |
| 3 | A sound currency is one of the things that people expect from a government that is working well . |
| 4 | As our clearance is at 1300 ft I am very quickly levelling out and using the power to achieve the standard 120 kt cruise you expect from a Squirrel . |
| 5 | The social position that a person occupies we call a status and the behaviour that we expect from a person occupying that position we call a role . |
| 6 | We canna have everybody putting eights , nines and tens and nobody putting ones , twos , and threes because then it it becomes meaningless er , in relation to the section it 's got to bear some relation to what sort of standard you expect from a child at at such |
| 7 | ‘ You could video that and sell it as what you expect from a player the control , the passing , the will to take responsibility , to work , to retrieve situations . |
| 8 | ‘ Be Modern — Play Old Time ’ advised Sydney Thompson to fellow bandleaders whilst Jack Parnell spelt out , rather controversially , ‘ What I Expect From A Rhythm Section ’ . |
| 9 | And we keep records of bookings , stating what is expected of us , and what we expect from a booking , ’ says the cheery singer . |
| 10 | That brass ring at her neck , attached to the zip all the way down that dress , like the ring you hold on to when you leap from a plane , plunging in free fall till you dare no more , then you pull the ring down , down and float in airy freedom , master of all you survey . |
| 11 | In the Teeming-Pit , brilliant yellow flames leap from a steel furnace . |
| 12 | A closer look — say from a boat — would show that these birds were feeding on sand-eels which were massed in a huge ‘ ball ’ just below the surface . |
| 13 | What you 're looking in any formula say from a carbon compound you would be looking for that was bonded to four different groups , it does n't matter what the groups are , it does n't matter how big , how small they are |
| 14 | There is a direction board and batteries of traffic lights pointing in all directions but exit from a canoe is far from easy . |
| 15 | They are used for rapid saving and restoring of the " process context " on entry to and exit from a subroutine , or in processor mode changes ( see 3.5 ) . |
| 16 | clay , other than pottery , which has been deliberately subjected to heat ( e.g. walls and bases of kilns and hearths , metal-production debris such as tuyeres and furnaces , core material remaining in bronzes after casting on a clay core ) , or heated accidentally ( e.g. daub from a house burnt down in a fire ) |
| 17 | The unfortunately British idea that at school , as well as a place of learning and a place where you grow from a child into an adult , is a kind of military disciplinary academy , I think is most unfortunate . |
| 18 | They have done this by asking what the British really want from a holiday . |
| 19 | Independent travellers are generally and altogether more knowledgeable about what they want from a holiday . |
| 20 | To expurgate ; remove from a book anything thought to be objectionable . |
| 21 | Smoke from a row of barbecues mixes with the dust of perhaps 15,000 people shuffling along the wooden stalls to shop for meat , antibiotics , the latest fashions , even , it is said , used cars . |
| 22 | His Pilgrim 's Progress was by far the most popular book in the cottages of the poor , and in Apollyon he had conjured up a monster fit for any fable : scaled , bear-footed , dragon-winged and breathing fire and smoke from a lion 's mouth . |
| 23 | In the extreme case , automatic roof venting has been proposed as the only effective means by which the removal of heat and smoke from a fire can be achieved . |
| 24 | Smoke damage from a fire is covered , whether the fire is in the Policyholder 's home or a neighbour 's house i.e. smoke from a fire in neighbour 's house causes smoke damage to Policyholder 's property . |
| 25 | Never , ever breed from a mare that has given you any cause to fear her in the stable . |
| 26 | Customers also benefit from a prompt , no-nonsense quotation service . |
| 27 | It has been proved that even a short stay helps not only the carers , but the patients , who greatly benefit from a change of scenery and the use of the many facilities we have here . ’ |
| 28 | For example , types of worker resistance which derive from spontaneous , unofficial initiatives on the part of groups of workers often benefit from a degree of tacit legitimacy , in the sense that those in authority may ‘ turn a blind eye ’ to various workshop practices . |
| 29 | Renewable energy projects benefit from a price premium financed by a levy on the power industry . |
| 30 | Both poinsettias and cyclamens benefit from a summer outdoors . |