Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Where risk has increased there is an increasing need for capital to provide a buffer against loss … the removal of the old protective barriers led to a rush by the smaller players to merge with new , bigger partners both to benefit from economies of scale and scope and to augment their capital base sufficiently to meet the requirements of the new , more demanding market context …
32 British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans .
33 They are expressive of the sentiments of retributive justice that Beccaria wished to exclude from consideration of punishments .
34 Sadly , Arthur Hellyer is also no longer with us , he died last week at the age of 90 ; two of his titles are to appear from Hamlyn in March : The Hellyer Pocket Guide ( £4.99 ) and The Hellyer Gardening Encyclopedia ( £14.99 , 0 600 57645 0 ) .
35 Michael , their younger brother , had promised to come from London at Easter but Luke , the eldest , still would not come .
36 The Group , which intends to operate nationally , does not set an upper limit on the size of customer , but expects 80 per cent of its work to come from companies with a turnover of between £0.5M to £5M .
37 Many of the gradual developments are likely to come from groups in the Oxford environment .
38 Near the boneyard , there was an old boneyard , it 's the road that runs through from Church , there were no houses there then , it 's all built on now , and there was a sl like a lane used to come from Church to Forrest .
39 Firstly , their income is less likely than the rest of the population to come from earnings from employment ; and more likely to be derived from pensions from the state or from past employers or from savings .
40 Such problems of internal management as may arise are likely to come from unfamiliarity on the part of individual teachers with the changing requirements of examinations and assessment .
41 ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work .
42 The strongest opposition is likely to come from supporters of nuclear power , which was cut sharply in the Clinton budget .
43 Ministers still stand by Lawther 's conclusion that only 10 per cent of lead in the human body is likely to come from additives in petrol .
44 ‘ Thank goodness that at last I shall be able to come from Stowbridge by the short way and under the low bridge ! ’ he said .
45 Forty-eight hours earlier , the Cabinet had agreed in principle to the Big Five's recommended savings of 70 million , of which nearly 50 million was to come from cuts in unemployment benefits .
46 This year Moss expects less than 20% of turnover to come from sales of framework technologies — he hopes end user products will make up 80% — and only 5% or 10% during 1994 .
47 This year Moss expects less than 20% to come from sales of framework technologies and hopes end-user products will be 80% — and only 5% or 10% during 1994 .
48 All of these sera proved to come from patients with Crohn colitis .
49 Until 1985 many psychiatrists ensured the supervision in the community of patients who were known to default from treatment by granting them leave of absence .
50 All the riders in the school appear to be girls , so unfortunately we will have to train from scratch in that department . ’
51 Naturally , some of us continued to meet from time to time , constituting the Tyrrell Society in all but name .
52 If we wish to study Lake Tahoe from the point of view of hydrology , fauna and water quality we may find it necessary to extract from maps of these features the polygonal area defining the extent of the lake .
53 I begin with this area because , firstly , it is towards the top of the paper and it is always preferable to work from top to bottom to alleviate unwanted smudging .
54 I begin with this area because , firstly , it is towards the top of the paper and it is always preferable to work from top to bottom to alleviate unwanted smudging .
55 It began with a budget of Ffr10 million p.a. and now disposes of 300 million ; it has over a thousand members , many of them professionals but forced to wander from excavation to excavation , without the opportunity to specialise .
56 What questions do you want to know from customers about , what d' ya wan na know about them ?
57 Unlike Nicolae 's sister , Elena Barbulescu , Elena Ceauşescu was never tempted by her power to stray from fidelity to her husband .
58 If the New-York Historical Society wants to deaccession works to pay for operating expenses , legislators who help fund the Society should have some veto power over those sales , particularly if works of art and other objects of local interest threaten to pass from museums into private hands .
59 It may seem strange to pass from peace-making to being persecuted .
60 The flow time t , is the time taken for the solution meniscus to pass from x to y in bulb E.
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