Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nurse Susan Quinn ordered her asthmatic common-law husband David to leap to safety from a bedroom window to avoid the choking smoke . |
| 2 | In a departure from his prepared speech , Key responded to criticism from transport campaigners by saying he was prepared to consider targets for cycle use ; campaigners argue that targets are essential to stimulate growth . |
| 3 | Sunderland defender Anton Rogan is linking-up with the squad after his club bowed to pressure from the Irish FA that they have first call on him under FIFA 's World Cup rules . |
| 4 | This may have been done in the Middle Ages , but many warrens seem to date from the sixteenth century onwards . |
| 5 | According to the annual data on migration and population change provided by the National Health Service Central Register and mid-year population estimates , the re-opening of the North-South divide appears to date from the first half of the 1970s . |
| 6 | Did the trade union movement really fail to grasp that the two pre-conditions were : first , that its sense of responsibility must be seen not to be limited to a commitment in the shorter term to contribute to recovery from immediate crisis , but to extend , at the expense of short-run advantage , to the longer term commitment , to the revival of British industry and to its successful competition in world markets ; and secondly , that a Labour Government would have to preside over the management of the country 's affairs ? |
| 7 | On the board 's summons to determine whether the assignees of deposits under assignments made between 5 and 30 July , were to be treated as depositors entitled to compensation from the fund pursuant to section 58(1) of the Act of 1987 : — |
| 8 | We are grateful for some help received to date from QP and if other friends wish to be identified with the work in a practical manner , this would be much appreciated . |
| 9 | There are a number of farm buildings at the site that date from the 17th and 18th centuries , the actual mill appearing to date from some point in the 19th century . |
| 10 | The work seems to date from the transitional period between Old Testament Judaism and Christianity . |
| 11 | Successful completion of this course leads to exemption from Part 1 of the British Computer Society professional examinations . |
| 12 | Successful completion of the course leads to exemption from the BASIS examinations . |
| 13 | It shows the decline in the percentage of the Gross Domestic Product devoted to Defence from 1946 onwards . |
| 14 | The establishment of the present winter population appears to date from the mid-1950s , and the increase has been very marked since 1960 . |
| 15 | Indeed , you 'd have to have O level Italian to identify to car from its more run-of-the-mill brothers and sisters in the Tipo clan — the only noticeable indication being ‘ Sedicivalvole ’ stamped across its broad backside . |
| 16 | ROADS : Almost every week traffic restrictions are placed on a new section of the motorway network , reducing the number of lanes open to traffic from three , to two , or even one . |
| 17 | The lecturer responds to feedback from the audience — conveyed by smiles and nods , body position and posture , laughter , silence or , in extreme cases , departure from the room . |
| 18 | However , the ball rebounded to safety from the far post . |
| 19 | This lack of ascription was subsequently remedied by the shorter prologue , which survives in a limited number of manuscripts of the Pactus : apparently known to the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum , the shorter prologue seems to date from the late seventh or early eighth century . |
| 20 | The American show includes film of people leaping to death from blazing buildings and other sickening true stories . |
| 21 | Contains a unique collection of historical toys , books , costumes and items relating to childhood from all over the world . |
| 22 | The local Edin burgh press in 1910–14 had almost a whole page devoted to news from Canada , where so many Scots had relatives . |
| 23 | We write the energy condition for a body of mass m starting with velocity v to escape to infinity from the surface of a star of mass M and radius r . |
| 24 | The greatest benefit was to the local community as a whole : as Listers grew so the area climbed to prosperity from the depression that followed the collapse of the wool-cloth trade . |
| 25 | The Mediterranean area sprung to life from end to end on 6 May . |
| 26 | With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three . |
| 27 | Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki bowed to pressure from his supporters and formally declared his candidacy on Oct. 4 . |
| 28 | In Lotus Development Corp. v Paperback Software International ( 1990 ) , the defendant claimed that he had not copied the Lotus program code but had used a similar menu system to achieve compatibility ( especially with respect to spreadsheet files and macros ) and to enable people to change to VP-Planner from Lotus 1-2-3 without requiring re-training . |
| 29 | The economy continued to stagger from crisis to crisis . |
| 30 | Christine came to television from the stage . |