Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] from [noun] " 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 | Bach himself did not disdain to transcribe Vivaldi concertos for organ or harpsichord and to borrow fugue-subjects from Legrenzi and Corelli . |
| 3 | Opponents of the NGC 's plans to erect pylons from Lackenby on Teesside to Shipton near York challenged the company at a pre-public inquiry meeting in Northallerton yesterday . |
| 4 | ‘ My brief is to channel funds from Britain into the Province . |
| 5 | One of the main aims of all financial institutions , including banks , is to channel funds from surplus to deficit units in an economy . |
| 6 | In Chapter 1 we said that it was the job of a financial system to channel funds from surplus to deficit sectors . |
| 7 | Apparently designed to accommodate demands from Germany and France for extra compensation for affected producers , this compromise envisaged income supports and other benefits to offset the impact of cuts in farm prices and export subsidies , especially in poorer regions . |
| 8 | Rich countries are not going to accept proposals from India and the Group of 77 countries for an environmental aid fund which would be administered by the developing nations , but transfers of technology and financial aid will be part of the eventual package . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But perhaps someone from Midland can explain how they hope to attract accounts from youngsters in their first jobs who have not passed their driving test and have never had a passport . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century , building societies began to accept investments from people who did not want to buy a house , but use them as a way of investing their savings and obtaining an income in the shape of interest . |
| 13 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |
| 14 | The purpose of a unit trust is to accept funds from individuals or companies and to invest those funds in a wide variety of assets . |
| 15 | Others refuse to accept risks from activities which , they believe , bring no benefit to them or to society at large . |
| 16 | Almost certainly the eldest child — Theresa , was n't it ? — had been taught not to accept lifts from strangers , particularly men , and he was virtually a stranger . |
| 17 | Being let down by friends or a lack of public transport not only encouraged drink-driving , it also led young people to accept lifts from friends who had been drinking . |
| 18 | Indeed , West German officials in Brussels find that the prospect of German unity can make it easier to extract concessions from Bonn : the words ‘ but minister , this will be taken as a sign of German nationalism ’ work wonders . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It can be used to obtain responses from pupils beyond what they would otherwise achieve . |
| 21 | Those conceptions hold that it is not so much the white individuals who are the oppressors , for they are only part of an overall structure which has been designed to exclude blacks from positions of seniority . |
| 22 | The boycott had begun on Sept. 6 , with monks in Yangon , Monyma and elsewhere joining those in Mandalay in refusing to accept alms from soldiers , or to perform religious services for them or their families . |
| 23 | The Humber Tavern , built 1808 , was where the landlord used to try to attract visitors from Hull with a bathing machine . |
| 24 | The huge magnet strong enough to pull nails from walls , stop watches and erase credit cards is the scanner 's main component . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Arrangements were made to obtain contributions from employers of casual labour who might have more than one employer in any week . |
| 27 | Imro also plans to demand explanations from members with complex ownership structures . |
| 28 | It was a bit everything-but-the-kitchen-sink on sexual politics , and its switches from comedy to Myra McFadden 's chilling incest victim 's song might have been a bit startling , but I still felt pleased with it and learned ( I hope ) an awful lot from it , mainly about structure which I find hard , and how to pinch plots from people who knew how to do it . |
| 29 | I do not agree that Hampshire presented the case fairly , and I keep trying to obtain undertakings from Hampshire county council that , even if it can not support Government policy , it might at least present a more detached account of the case to parents when grant-maintained options are on the table . |
| 30 | In view of Poindexter 's claim that Reagan had authorized some of the activities for which he was indicted , District Judge Harold H. Greene had allowed the defendant to subpoena extracts from Reagan 's diaries and personal papers to assist in his defence . |