Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juries saw no problem deciding whom they were to despatch from this world : let similar bodies decide who is to come into it . |
| 2 | ‘ As long as Drexel was there , ’ says Mr Sind , ‘ they always managed to find a way to struggle from debt-payment date to debt-payment date . ’ |
| 3 | A simple scatterplot of one variable against the other will show the true relation , but is surprisingly difficult to request from some programs . |
| 4 | Since the information stored is likely to differ from one employee to another , several relational database management systems for personnel records have been developed on micros exclusively for use in personnel applications . |
| 5 | At the very least , conditioned inhibition training is likely to differ from latent inhibition training in that the former is likely to convey the information that a given event ( a given US ) will not occur whereas the latter could only convey that no event will occur . |
| 6 | Sex Roles ’ and Psychology of Women Quarterly 's occasional articles and special issues on lesbianism repeat the ‘ just like us ’ parallelism of conventional psychology by dealing predominantly with areas where lesbians are commonly expected to differ from heterosexual women , like gender role , relationships , work role , and parenthood . |
| 7 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |
| 8 | If the tax-transfer system creates a budget constraint that is nonlinear and non-convex , then it is possible for more than one tangency with an indifference curve to arise , and indeed for the same indifference curve to have two tangency points , and small changes in the budget constraint can cause the chosen number of hours to jump from one segment of the constraint to another ( e.g.points 6 and 7 in Fig. 12–2(c) ) . |
| 9 | An entertaining example of animals solving the same problem as the swimming rats , but with land and water reversed , is the ability of a tide-pool fish , the goby , to jump from one pool to another without landing on the rock between . |
| 10 | I do n't know , maybe the time was better for making music than it is now , there was less touring , not this hysterical feeling that everyone needs to jump from one place to another , or the lure of too many good orchestras — maybe it 's true that there are now more good orchestras than good conductors . |
| 11 | Other freeholders , however , were less career-motivated , and often showed considerable loyalty to a particular political interest over an extended period of time , and as a generalisation it might be suggested that they were less likely to jump from one interest to another than were the lawyers with judicial preferment in mind . |
| 12 | As the sermon wore on and he became more and more excited , he began to jump from one side , first to the middle and , by the time he was in full verbal flight , he managed to leap the entire length of the pulpit . |
| 13 | W w what w what am I to infer from this expert reports ? |
| 14 | It is difficult to infer from this passage that Strabo trusted Timagenes about the Cells and never made use of the original text of Posidonius — who had been directly or indirectly his own teacher . |
| 15 | I believe , therefore , that it is not implausible to infer from these findings that a substantial fraction of Labour voters reckoned merely that the party would be able to form a more competent and moderate government , and would be better able to defuse the crisis , although one should not discount the continued existence of a ‘ class reflex ’ vote owing little to any elaborate political calculation . |
| 16 | It is possible to infer from these passages and others in The State of the Prisons that Howard believed in both the good man theory , and in control by the courts . |
| 17 | Apart from the ethical concerns some people feel on this matter there is the pressing issue of the degree to which it is possible to extrapolate from one species to another , especially from non-human species to ourselves . |
| 18 | Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future . |
| 19 | At no time is it sufficient simply to extrapolate from current costs and patterns of use to the future . |
| 20 | Can you imagine how much it would cost to extrapolate from these screen sizes to a wall-sized panel ? |
| 21 | Therefore , it is inadvisable to extrapolate from those studies to disadvantaged populations . |
| 22 | Is it possible to extrapolate from this decision , and to say that an offence is committed whenever the constable is seeking to exercise a statutory power of arrest such as , for example , the power of arrest conferred by section 5 ? |
| 23 | Now to extrapolate from this example to a general argument that familiarity of a subject is a disadvantage would clearly be absurd . |
| 24 | If the visitor was unsuccessful , influences were brought to bear from other quarters , such as the clergy , the district visitor , or some other agency with knowledge of the family . |
| 25 | Of course we also have to recognize that in the kind of world in which we live , it is possible to have inward peace and security and yet to suffer from various problems with our bodies . |
| 26 | Where you are likely to suffer from regular assaults , it may well be worth considering cladding part or all of you greenhouse with polycarbonate sheeting . |
| 27 | All horses are likely to suffer from internal parasites or ‘ worms ’ and should be regularly treated for them . |
| 28 | Pramual said that he would not allow " millions " of borrowers , including small businesses and individuals with home loans , to suffer from higher interest rates . |
| 29 | However , despite these encouraging signs , LASMO — in common with all companies in the oil industry — continues to suffer from low oil prices and the world recession , and as a result has announced economies to help safeguard its long-term position . |
| 30 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |