Example sentences of "[vb infin] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paid friend may well act from the impure motive that ‘ the customer is always right ’ ! |
| 2 | As there is a danger that people will be confused and might buy from the second retailer thinking that they are buying from the other , he should be able to obtain an injunction preventing the second retailer from continuing to use the name he has chosen . |
| 3 | There was no doubt that Hari would buy from the same supplier as the Grenfells and what if Hari had an outstanding bill ? |
| 4 | As you straighten your hand the band will jump from the first two fingers on to the third and fourth ones . |
| 5 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
| 6 | There is still a possibility the club could resign from the Northern League before Tuesday 's deadline . |
| 7 | I agree with him and I would resign from the Conservative Party if it were anything else . |
| 8 | But others of us who were Governors were so opposed to it that we all said we 'd resign from the governing body if the school did opt out . |
| 9 | But the greater the prestige and reputation of an institution , the more it will recruit from the upper echelons of society . |
| 10 | Readers of The National Trust Magazine will know from the annual summary of the Trust 's financial position how much more difficult it is becoming to find the resources required to carry out the Trust 's broad conservation responsibilities . |
| 11 | Eventually the scarp will retreat from the original position of faulting and it may be buried by sediment . |
| 12 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |
| 13 | If you find a swim where you can trot down you could end up with a good bag of dace as large , individually , as those you may catch from the main river . |
| 14 | That 's how we built our company , and we did maximize from the hundred and thirty girls from three years ago . |
| 15 | Ledeen always thought it self-evident that America should re-open contacts with Iran ; it could profit from the political fissures there , and could perhaps exploit the chaos that would undoubtedly follow the end of the Ayatollah 's rule . |
| 16 | The optimality theory states that an increase in a is good , as the subjects can always ignore the increased probability of lower prices ( as they should not be selling at those low prices anyhow ) and can profit from the increased probability of higher prices . |
| 17 | Therefore , a second thief can steal from the first : Meech [ 1974 ] QB 549 ( CA ) . |
| 18 | Wickham ( in press ) , in a study of teachers and children in the UK , shows the same problem of the ‘ drop-out ’ of information in teachers ' use of simultaneous communication , Maxwell ( 1983 ) , in a direct attempt to examine the effect of simultaneous communication using MCE on deaf children 's writing , produces the results one might predict from the above and from our preceding discussion of BSL . |
| 19 | Perpetuation of this system would have meant , as we can predict from the above reasoning , that when the nation 's sewers finally collapsed , having been built in the last century , a huge financing requirement would have been forced upon the industry . |
| 20 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 21 | They may even drive on occasions but must not deviate from the agreed route except where reasonable to protect the child . |
| 22 | Make up your mind that whatever the short-term temptations may be , you will never deviate from the highest standards of honour . |
| 23 | The operator may deviate from the listed procedure because it may require excessive moving about or because he is interrupted by the requirements of other tasks . |
| 24 | They are people dedicated to seeing that corporate goals and cultures do not deviate from the chosen path . |
| 25 | The research will thus deviate from the common run of ‘ community ’ studies which have hitherto been the main focus of anthropological research on ethnic minorities in Britain . |
| 26 | On Dec. 27 government spokesperson Yuan Mu was hissed at during a packed meeting with Beijing University students on current events when he said that China would not deviate from the socialist road , despite current events in Romania [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 27 | During the talks in Hanoi Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Le Mai urged the lifting of the US trade embargo against Vietnam , but Solomon insisted that the USA would not deviate from the four-point path to normalization outlined in April 1991 [ see p. 38149 ] . |
| 28 | Within this realm the stuff of dreams and nightmares can coalesce from the very air . |
| 29 | Nor must one exclude from the economic benefits to the crown 's war effort the acquisition of funds which would otherwise serve to enrich French mother houses and very probably , through taxation , the French crown . |
| 30 | A House of Commons Select Committee found that local authorities had a considerable amount of discretion over what to include in or exclude from the secular curriculum . |