Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] from [art] " 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 | It well I say one it was one of the aspects that was that tha that cropped up in our discussion about the criteria on Friday and as far as we 're concerned , what we are trying to do is not er to exclude anything from the discussion in terms of er trying to locate or find a suitable location . |
| 4 | He was tempted to tell her to hire someone from the gutter press if she wanted more earthy writing , or some bloody feminist if she wanted a sensitive novel . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Imbert has decided not to sell anything from the show because of the poor state of the art market , and with Editions du Regard is publishing a book of the exhibition which will sell , at a loss , for FFr 250 . |
| 8 | They had come to expect nothing from a disenfranchised people except violence and anarchy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It made her feel more at home , already , to steal something from the larder . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | To perform conditional jumps , the computer has to select one from a set of two ( or more ) next micro-instruction addresses . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | shape and required to select one from an array ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , that uncle of yours did n't have the manners to write , never mind the decency to come ; but I 've long learned never to expect anything from an ass but a kick . ’ |
| 17 | Although the sons of Zebedee were evidently netsmen , Christian iconography has drawn on angling to depict anything from the means of grace by which God draws our souls up into Heaven to His ensnaring of the monstrous Leviathan . |
| 18 | I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’ |
| 19 | So , we 're going to have to borrow one from the , and then put a minus one , put that one there , leaves five , and minus one , minus two , leaves , ca n't do that anyway , so you 're going to have to borrow this one |
| 20 | Work equipment is broadly defined to include everything from a handtool through machinery of all kinds to a complete plant , such as a refinery . |
| 21 | We do n't always write on them ; sometimes you find that if somebody tells you to write a poem about windows you end up writing a poem about aeroplanes or whatever , and I actually like being told to do something from the outside because you 'll discover almost immediately whether that 's really something you want to write about or not . |
| 22 | erm and it was so successful that they asked us again to do one from the United States |
| 23 | Each of these seems to derive something from the interruptable time of the television chronotope , and its consequently segmented narrative . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You may be called upon to devise anything from a competition to a collection of recipes ( taking expert advice if you are wise ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Celtic3 St Johnstone1 CELTIC overpowered St Johnstone and remain on course to salvage something from an indifferent season . |
| 29 | ‘ Where are we heading now ? ’ she asked in an effort to salvage something from the day if it was at all possible . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ Sarella said dully in a last-ditch attempt to salvage something from the wreckage of her self-esteem . |