Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A $5 million joint American-Brazilian venture to monitor emissions from forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon has been launched in an attempt to measure the role of the emissions in the global climate and their possible threat to human health in Brazil . |
| 2 | So stony that he even had to borrow money from Dad to get home . |
| 3 | Go on then you 'll be able to see mummy from work . |
| 4 | One of the main aims of all financial institutions , including banks , is to channel funds from surplus to deficit units in an economy . |
| 5 | In Chapter 1 we said that it was the job of a financial system to channel funds from surplus to deficit sectors . |
| 6 | GET can also be used to input data from I/O port . |
| 7 | It was also known that Douglas Wilder , the first black Governor of Virginia , was considering mounting a challenge which , with the probable absence of the Rev. Jesse Jackson from the contest , was likely to attract support from minority groups . |
| 8 | This allows the Registry to meet requests from student societies for lists and labels in support of membership activities , and to respond to requests from project students for assistance with questionnaire sampling and distribution . |
| 9 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 10 | Mr Michael Rowley , finance director , said the group had foreseen the problems and had made an effort to increase income from interest , which came in at £64,000 as against a charge of £78,000 at the halfway stage last year . |
| 11 | to know story from life of friend that is authentic and clearly related to the goal of the session . |
| 12 | Where major investment decisions , such as BR 's electrification plan or RENFE 's new investment plan , are pending , the minister may be in a strong bargaining position and be able to extract concessions from railway management in return for mustering support in cabinet . |
| 13 | The Social Security Pensions Act 1975 specifically allows employers to exclude workers from membership of occupational pension schemes by occupational category , thus facilitating the legal exclusion of women in vertically segregated occupational categories which are mainly or exclusively female . |
| 14 | Politicians , accountants , television producers , newspaper editors and all such mandarins who have set themselves up as authorities with power to say yea or nay to us , to sift right from wrong , good from bad , lawful from criminal , and to decide what the rest of us may know and what we may not ( ‘ All the News that 's Fit to Print ’ ) exploit this wondrous paradoxical nature of language with uncanny skill to attain and retain their hegemony over others . |
| 15 | She knew , had always known from observing her excellent father in his parish , how to listen and console without colluding , to allow and never invite confidences , to know right from wrong and yet never to judge or reject . |
| 16 | As a result it is much more difficult for toads to extract water from clay . |
| 17 | City technology colleges illustrate another aspect of privatisation in their attempts to attract resources from industry and commerce . |
| 18 | Compact should make it easier for all teachers from Compact schools to meet people from industry who would be prepared to share in curriculum development . |
| 19 | It is the legacy of the worst drought since 1745 and increasing water extraction by the Three Valleys Water Company seeking to meet demand from industry and homes . |
| 20 | It can make it easier to place pupils for Work Experience , to find partners from industry for curriculum development or advisers for Mini-Enterprise . |
| 21 | Hewlett-Packard Co has teamed up with IBM Corp 's Metaphor Computer Systems Inc for joint development and marketing of software to provide access from Metaphor 's Data Interpretation System decision support software to HP 9000 Series 800 Precision Architecture servers , making the machine the first non-IBM computer for the product . |
| 22 | It was the most glaring example of the arbitrary choice of any particular chronological age — in fact one moment in time — to exclude people from participation , services or benefits . |
| 23 | In particular , as Walsh emphasized in his public statement of Sept. 16 , it highlighted the difficulties of reconciling the need for rapid exposure of government wrongdoing , which prompted congressional investigators to grant immunity from prosecution to key witnesses , with the aim of convicting those responsible for misdeeds . |
| 24 | There were other pointers occasionally , such as Charles Kingsley 's book on Town Geology published in 1872 and the objection of Kropotkin ( 1893 , p. 350 ) to the trend to exclude man from physiography . |
| 25 | It is a good idea to obtain offers from specialist outlets , before selling a rug in this way , as it may prove time-consuming to locate a private buyer , and individuals may require independent evidence of the rug 's worth . |
| 26 | The onset of drought in the 1970s simply compounded and brought to a head a situation that was almost inevitable from its inception , the root of which was fuelled by European interests to counteract competition from soya bean imports from the USA . |
| 27 | • Pethidine — usually given as an injection , it takes about 10–20 minutes to provide relief from pain . |
| 28 | The course which Sukarno sought to follow included perjuangan but also hoped to extract dividends from diplomacy ( diplomasi ) . |
| 29 | ‘ We do have a membership scheme and I try to increase numbers from family membership through to corporate membership . |
| 30 | Penney , Cockcroft and Hinton [ Britain 's nuclear ‘ barons ’ ] agreed that Harwell should provide the research information and flowsheet for a plant , to be built at Windscale , to extract polonium from bismuth irradiated in the piles . ’ |