Example sentences of "[vb infin] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the seaman Peters , a thief and later a mutineer , protests against the commuting of the death sentence to the disgrace of being flogged round the fleet , Marryat as author finds it a matter for critical comment that the members of the court-martial are clearly surprised that a mere seaman should act from a sense of honour : |
| 2 | Er is what you 're saying , what , what you 're saying apply equally erm spitting rather , if I sort information from it , I 'm not quite sure what sort information I could seek from a commission , got any suggestions in that |
| 3 | In addition , the purchaser should seek from the vendor a specific indemnity against bad debts but on the basis the purchaser acknowledges that it will not be able to recover twice for both breach of warranty and under the bad debt indemnity . |
| 4 | Although Newco will seek from the vendor warranties which may provide redress if a problem arises after completion , it is preferable to identify any serious problem before the purchase and negotiate a reduction in price , rather than to litigate a warranty claim afterwards . |
| 5 | Once this occurs moisture penetrates , causing the varnish to flake or peel from the surface . |
| 6 | The responses indicated that 28 per cent would prefer to buy through a building society ; 27 per cent said they would buy from a salesman in their own home . |
| 7 | You also need brushes which you can buy from a hardware store . |
| 8 | The plain truth , however , is that if the buyer does put off buying until another day it is as likely that he will buy from the competition . |
| 9 | For those who grow their own tomatoes or can buy from the market when the fruit is cheap , here it is : |
| 10 | You can jump from the history of the town to a backgrounder on Spanish dance . |
| 11 | No reason why I should jump from the frying-pan into the frying-pan , is there ? ’ |
| 12 | What do they need from an induction course ? |
| 13 | In the end I agreed to do this but I remember leaving the meeting literally , I am afraid , in tears and saying that although I would obey the majority I would resign from the Government afterwards as quietly as I could because I should have failed to uphold an almost lifelong conviction … |
| 14 | I shall resign from the Council . |
| 15 | Following his arrest Abe announced his resignation from the LDP but stated that he would not resign from the Diet . |
| 16 | A minor success for Collor was the acceptance of the Science and Technology portfolio by Hélio Jaguaribe , a founder of the PSDB and a member of its national executive , who said that he would now resign from the party . |
| 17 | At one stage , moviegoers can choose to see the villain plummet from a window , rescue the heroine or be sprayed with Mace attack repellent . |
| 18 | Whereas Charles Paris , who knew that he had given one of the best performances of his career in The Hooded Owl , was a name that the punters would n't know from a bar of soap . |
| 19 | Luckily for Athletico , business is my business and something at which I excel , as many of you will know from the success of my 8-Day Superette in the High Street . |
| 20 | Few teachers are appointed for only one of the three tasks and even if their hands are full with teaching or with a senior teacher 's responsibilities or a large clutch of pastoral duties in their early days , they will know from the head what kind of organization they are joining . |
| 21 | And one thing we do know from the work of really scientific psychologists — those of the behaviorist school — is that frustration creates an aggressive response , anger . |
| 22 | Obviously he did not know from the look on his face . |
| 23 | We do not know from the photograph , but these are police officers . |
| 24 | Let them know from the start that they were dealing with a kulak , not a noble . |
| 25 | And we let her know from the start that we trusted her . |
| 26 | The lists are outside and the the venues , and please take the opportunity during the lunch-break to make contact with your , to make contact with your Chair of Electoral Colleges , your Chairs , er , especially those perhaps , who are new members , the Chairs on their name-tag have a red star , and I think you will all know from the resolution this morning , who are the new Chairs , if they , if they have changed . |
| 27 | The only other person I do n't recognise from the list is ? ? ? |
| 28 | Either the debtor or the creditor could appeal from the decision of the court to a single-judge Court of Appeal which gave a final decision . |
| 29 | The Slovene president Milan Kucan said on March 19 that if the army sought a pretext to interfere in the republic 's political affairs , Slovenia would immediately secede from the federation [ see p. 38019 ] , while the speaker of the Slovene parliament threatened immediate secession in the event of military action . |
| 30 | Worried that the government might retreat from an emancipation measure a convention of 339 antislavery delegates assembled in London in early spring 1833 . |