Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Pecquet even claimed that good diplomats needed to be prepared from childhood for the work .
2 To specify modules which are part of a package and which are to be transferred from LIFESPAN to the user 's account , the following relationships must be used :
3 To specify modules which are part of a package and which are to be transferred from LIFESPAN to the user 's account , the following relationships must be used :
4 The rain had darkened his brown hair , and rivulets of water dripped down a face that looked to be carved from teak .
5 The natural-entity theory thus legitimated the fact that in the large public company , as we shall see , the shareholders no longer controlled corporate management , so that control as well as management came to be separated from ownership .
6 According to European manager Rick Mellinger , ImageFlow is n't tightly-coupled to an application : instead , the client-server-based software links up to any application via an Application Programming Interface , enabling workflow processing to be separated from application processing .
7 Unwins have an intriguing first this year with ‘ Creation ’ , the first F1 hybrid shallot to be grown from seed .
8 I refuse to sell refrigerated Brie , so when the regulations come into force that state food has to be refrigerated from manufacture to sale , it will disappear from my shop .
9 There was no bell to sound my coming or going , no wearing out of someone else 's carpet and electricity ; no animal to be disturbed from sleep .
10 Scissors with fine , sharp blades are equally essential for découpage , where complicated shapes have to be cut from paper .
11 These were now reduced to 56 million , of which only 22 million was to be cut from unemployment benefits .
12 They looked at each other without joy and without hope , desperately wanting to be sheltered from reality .
13 You may have loved her or hated her , agreed with her or violently opposed her , but not even her worst enemy could have accused her of spinelessness or a desire to be shielded from life 's little unpleasantnesses .
14 Medics and educationalists were keenly aware that the best way of inculcating the laws of health was through a stress on the pleasures to be gained from PT .
15 That January in 1941 the plans were entirely personal , however , because Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott had difficulty persuading the Force Commanders that there was anything to be gained from beach reconnaissance .
16 There was the intellectual stimulus to be gained from discussion with colleagues , and the challenge of teaching lively young minds .
17 All of which implies strongly that concentration in UK manufacturing industry was prompted by the rewards to be gained from ownership and control rather than from increased scale of production [ Aaronovitch and Sawyer , 1975 ] .
18 Naturally this enforcement pattern could be justified by the inspectorate who see their primary function not as a kind of industrial police force , but more of a pastoral mission rounding up wayward factory owners and showing them the light and contentment to be gained from compliance with current standards of safety , health , and welfare required by law .
19 However , I have stressed the importance of the other side of our self-interested rationality — the side that also enables us to appreciate the personal advantages to be gained from compliance with the restraints of the social contract .
20 The true place of inflation in calculating the cost of credit is as part of a triangle which has as its other sides the interest to be gained from instalment savings and the interest to be paid for instalment credit — both of which are broadly related to inflation rates anyway .
21 ‘ We have already urged the Government to clarify 20 key points in the Treaty to clear away ambiguity and uncertainty about its impact on business and the benefits to be gained from ratification .
22 The Office of Health Economics suggest that the benefits to be gained from HRT ‘ are far in excess of any known risks associated with its use . ’
23 ‘ It must be stressed , however , ’ we noted , ‘ that the book has an optimistic tone , asserting that there is still much to be gained from life even in the quickening twilight years . ’
24 An MBA and a Diploma programme aimed at maximising the real benefits to be gained from investment in Information Technology .
25 The fact that the two hospitals were less than three miles apart , that they had a combined acreage of 375 acres , that they were outmoded from the point of view of treatment , and that both had ‘ spare capacity ’ because of the continued decline in the long-stay population meant that there was much to be gained from merger .
26 ‘ I do not think there is any comfort to be gained from definition in this branch of the law .
27 Such radicalism demanded too much , because there was little popular momentum to be gained from harmony through compromise , once the first flush of enthusiasm engendered by Mrs Stowe passed .
28 Managing quality in this example is based on the assumption that long-term and medium-term planning of all subjects is important , that the analysis and modification of the use of time have to be repeated from year to year ( if not from term to term ) and that targets and statements of attainment should feature in schools ' schemes of work " and provide a valuable focus for the planning and transaction of classwork by individual teachers " ( HMI 1990:14 ) .
29 His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience .
30 The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass .
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