Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was agreeably surprised to find one from a friend who had joined the Mounties a couple of years previously . |
| 2 | The complicating factor is the reader 's motivation : the effort that children will make if they need to obtain something from a particular book or periodical . |
| 3 | Redken would recommend a new permanent wave called TRUST which combines both acid and alkaline ingredients to create anything from a soft body wave to springy , resilient curls . |
| 4 | The grid size can easily be increased or decreased at any stage during the design process , thus allowing you to create anything from a tiny motif to a large electronic or intarsia design that would cover a complete garment piece . |
| 5 | They had come to expect nothing from a disenfranchised people except violence and anarchy . |
| 6 | He is being wooed by three counter-arguments : first , that when it comes to big , company-wide computer systems , customers still prefer to buy everything from a single , proven supplier ; second , that mainframes will remain at the heart of many of tomorrow 's systems , in which a network of PCs will be served by a central processor ; and third , that IBM is moving away from being hardware-dominated to become , increasingly , a one-stop-shop for computer consultancy and services . |
| 7 | Definitional overlap uses dictionary definitions as a source of semantic knowledge , and follows a sequential comparison algorithm to select one from a number of alternative word candidates as being the most ’ semantically plausible ’ within that sentential context . |
| 8 | To perform conditional jumps , the computer has to select one from a set of two ( or more ) next micro-instruction addresses . |
| 9 | When the main scale had been constructed , student and employer samples were asked to select one from a range of scaled descriptive phrases indicating the employability value of different features of the course . |
| 10 | Output and display requirements dictate architectures which support high-resolution colour graphics , can display both RGB ( ‘ Red-Green-Blue' , the colour screen standard in which the three basic colours remain individually controllable ) and composite video information , and provide an audio capability able to handle anything from a feeble bleep to high fidelity stereo . |
| 11 | Work equipment is broadly defined to include everything from a handtool through machinery of all kinds to a complete plant , such as a refinery . |
| 12 | In Britain 's current enterprise culture , there 's money available to fund anything from a cow chiropodist to a breeder of edible snails , though there 's no guarantee that your venture will work . |
| 13 | You may be called upon to devise anything from a competition to a collection of recipes ( taking expert advice if you are wise ) . |
| 14 | By the end of 1978 renewed demonstrations in Isfahan and Tehran ( and elsewhere ) had demoralized both the Shah 's government and the Americans , who were busy trying to salvage something from a situation that was clearly going badly wrong . |
| 15 | Michael Atherton ( 37 ) , and especially Chris Lewis ( 49 ) , also played their part in stands of 58 and 93 respectively with Hick as England tried to salvage something from a Test series they have already lost 2-0 . |
| 16 | It has a very efficient and accurate VAT return facility , and includes functions for everything you need to run anything from a small to multi-national company . |
| 17 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
| 18 | Teachers are more likely to learn something from a recording if they have specific points to look for . |
| 19 | Plumber 's snakes can be hired , though might be a tool worth owning — you may be able to improvise something from a length of net curtain wire with a hook at the end . |
| 20 | She set it down on a footstool beside the open fire , then leaned across to take something from a bowl on the mantlepiece and sprinkle it on the burning logs . |
| 21 | The interpreter operates at high speed : in simultaneous translation ( strictly speaking , simultaneous interpreting ) , he keeps roughly a sentence behind the speaker ; in consecutive translation ( interpreting ) the speaker waits for the interpreter to translate anything from a morpheme to a whole paragraph at a time . |
| 22 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 23 | A third is transput instructions , requiring a field to specify one from a range of peripheral devices . |
| 24 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
| 25 | It is based on army issue shovels and although very compact could be used to dig anything from a small surface hole to a trench ! |