Example sentences of "[to-vb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 2 | They do have their problems ; they are difficult to open , you can not stand on the wing and lift them up , so you have to struggle from the ground . |
| 3 | Members are encouraged to request from the information office a prepared guide to all the facilities available . |
| 4 | The court , however , with misgivings expressed in the judgment of Oliver L.J. , at p. 1194D , felt unable to differ from the judge 's findings that the letters were never received : see p. 1194B : There was also a serious dispute as to whether the judge was entitled to reach his findings that the father did not have independent advice or that he was subject to undue influence from the son . |
| 5 | It is still open to the ECJ judges to differ from the Advocate General 's opinion and , according to consultants and actuaries Noble Lowndes , even when judgment is given it is unlikely to cover all the details so requiring national legislation or court action . |
| 6 | This meant that Wilson would have to accept from the re-negotiation the same conditions as Heath had accepted , with perhaps a few minor , cosmetic modifications , or else withdraw the United Kingdom out of the EEC . |
| 7 | When I say that you can expect evolution to jump from the insect to one of its immediate neighbours , but not to jump from the insect directly to the fox or the scorpion , what I exactly mean is the following . |
| 8 | When I say that you can expect evolution to jump from the insect to one of its immediate neighbours , but not to jump from the insect directly to the fox or the scorpion , what I exactly mean is the following . |
| 9 | The only way to reach the bottom rung is to jump from the roof of a wooden hut the builders occasionally use for storing things . |
| 10 | The to infinitive forces the mind to jump from the cause ( cry ) to the fully fledged existence of the effect ( the instantaneous re-entry into the dimension of distinctness ) . |
| 11 | There is an increasing tendency on the part of regulatory authorities worldwide ( and not just revenue authorities ) to infer from the existence of tax haven-based structures that something shady is going on — and the greater the degree of secrecy built into the structure , the stronger the inference . |
| 12 | The chamber of commerce in Leeds is very positive about the future , as well it might be , and it was hard to infer from the report that the chamber of commerce felt that there was a need for a regional government , as the hon. Gentleman suggested . |
| 13 | If the subject does not know the junction and is attempting to decide how risky it is likely to be in other circumstances it would make sense to extrapolate from the information in the film to decide for example how busy the junction generally is , or to simply generalize from their current feelings of risk . |
| 14 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |
| 15 | Mr Frizzell 's business did not seem to suffer from the omission . |
| 16 | At every step I was told not to do it because I was bound to suffer from the kind of prejudice I was always talking about . |
| 17 | ASIAN girls are six times more likely than others to suffer from the slimming diseases bulimia or anorexia nervosa , according to shock new figures . |
| 18 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 19 | Yet for them , such a personality-type is compatible with their way of life , and even beneficial ( certainly , they never seem to suffer from the obesity that afflicts food addicts in societies with storable food-surpluses ) . |
| 20 | She brought us across the Irish Sea , trusting to God , but God chose her to suffer from the weather and she puked her guts into St George 's Channel , poor thing , and Francie crying because he closed our mother 's eyes , since there was no one else to do it . |
| 21 | Dixons has been one of the first retail chains to suffer from the slowing of retail demand . |
| 22 | Pompeii was not the only town to suffer from the rain of pumice and ash ; the fall-out in fact covered an area of hundreds of square kilometres and several other Roman settlements , but Pompeii was particularly badly hit because it was so close to the volcano and was down-wind of it , so that the ash-laden eruption cloud was carried towards the town by the prevailing wind . |
| 23 | He continued : [ T ] he ultimate question for the court was this : if the section 146 notice had required the lessee to remedy the breach and the lessors had then allowed a reasonable time to elapse to enable the lessee fully to comply with the relevant covenant , would such compliance , coupled with the payment of any appropriate monetary compensation , have effectively remedied the harm which the lessors had suffered or were likely to suffer from the breach ? |
| 24 | This might not stop him reacting still more strongly in favour of theft , from the viewpoints of all who as an anarchist he believes to suffer from the institution of private property ; but otherwise he has to put the danger on the same side of the scales as the slight loss to the old relative , against the great gain to himself . |
| 25 | We believe a reasonable target is for civil R&D to increase from the present 1.8 per cent to 2.5 per cent of GDP . |
| 26 | She began to rake from the front of the house towards the road , then realized she had nothing in which to put the leaves . |
| 27 | What made Whitaker ideal for Doctor Who , though , was his ability to write from the heart ; to put into words notions and understandings of wonder . |
| 28 | If British Rail goes ahead with the building of this station at a cost of £1.4 billion , what sort of income will it need to secure from the capital developments to service the loan , bearing in mind the fact that the Minister has often said that the Government will put no money into the project ? |
| 29 | He left her to go to the kitchen , began to run the tap , then heard her rise , to dash from the parlour — not , he hoped , to leave the house ; but , going after her , he saw her mounting the stairs to her room , to be away from him , simply because he was , for the moment at least , no longer Dr Neil , but only another member of the sex which had betrayed her . |
| 30 | Suddenly a wave of total panic swept across her like nausea and she had to resist the urge to dash from the car and hide herself among the trees . |