Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 2 | The lower rate of SSP is to increase from £45.30 to £46.95 a week with the lower earnings threshold ( below which SSP is not payable ) increasing from £54 to £56 a week . |
| 3 | One of the more commonly used methods of sales forecasting is to obtain from salesforce personnel and sales managers their combined view of sales to be expected during the forecast period . |
| 4 | Indeed it is used , in 26 of its 27 occurrences , literally ; in the other case , " The highway of the upright is to depart from evil " ( Prov 16.17 ) , we have the impression that the metaphor is freshly minted for the occasion , and there can be little question that is typically a literal road . |
| 5 | To shrink from examining this broad historical and cultural reference system is to shrink from reality . |
| 6 | The safest way to ensure that you are getting the best practical business advice for your money is to buy from Croner . |
| 7 | The easy course , in fact , in a life of ‘ self-sufficiency ’ is to drift from day to day , working hard but always responding to circumstances ; on a subsistence holding like ours , there is always somewhere to be weeded ; something to be mended or maintained . |
| 8 | At the same time , one introduces the idea of thermal energy , heat , and in many situations the requirement is in fact is to start from energy in one form , such as heat from burning oil , to satisfy a requirement for energy in another form , in other words mechanical energy — the turning of a shaft — so somewhere there has to be a device which converts the heat energy into mechanical energy . |
| 9 | The PowerLan two-user starter kit is priced from £138 , and the single user add-on package is to cost from £69 . |
| 10 | A horse , being a herd animal , is naturally suspicious and his first instinct is to run from danger . |
| 11 | NORTHERN Ireland is to separate from Scotland and have its own region under the National Council of the Federation of Master Builders . |
| 12 | The aim is to learn from experience gained in the demonstration districts and regions and to disseminate the lessons throughout the NHS . |
| 13 | I ca n't think what there is to learn from Miss Mussolini — unless she 's going to tell us how to make our trains run on time … |
| 14 | The simple answer is to learn from mistakes . |
| 15 | If your computer supports graphics , and most do , the first thing to do is to change from text mode ( the mode that DOS sets up for you ) into graphics mode . |
| 16 | The purpose of that is to remove from Mr Jewitt at Hambleton and Mr Earle at Richmondshire and any others erm who just do n't want this kind of pressure brought upon them , er by putting criteria in at the strategic scale you could derive that criteria and maybe even name local authority areas to make to protect those who do not want this feature . |
| 17 | Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes . |
| 18 | I mean you , the , the more you argue the south is a viable economic system , the less there is to gain from land reform . |