Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [to-vb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ratings continue to benefit from management 's conservative financial policies , the agency said . |
| 2 | Hence equation ( 8.2 ) defines a price determined real wage ( PRW ) which employers seek to defend from erosion in the face of money-wage demands by insiders in order to protect their real profitability . |
| 3 | Eating disorders tend to come from childhood , or problems , or ways people have approached food in the past and the pressure is on women to be slim to fit into these categories are er , just more pressures that make it very difficult for somebody who has an eating disorder to sort the problem all these pressures just make it more difficult . |
| 4 | To listen to this when the mind and body need to recover from effort is , to use a medical term , contra-indicated . |
| 5 | Christians need to reflect from time to time on their faith , knowing that it is easy to be distracted from their calling to be disciples . |
| 6 | Dancers begin to assemble from morning onwards … |
| 7 | Finally , the manner of remuneration and , more important , the de jure employment status of contract computer staff tend to differ from agency secretarial/office staff . |
| 8 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
| 9 | Given the significance of regular heroin use , the psychological and physical dependency often associated with the drug , and the all-embracing nature of the lifestyle usually required to secure funds and supplies , users tend to live from moment to moment and find little time for reflecting upon their situation . |
| 10 | Once new fields are delineated they come to be seen as natural , their boundaries appear to derive from logic , and a world in which they had no place becomes unimaginable . |
| 11 | Electricity users set to benefit from leap in profit |
| 12 | The promises on human rights seemed as tenuous as the Declaration on Liberated Europe , issued at Yalta 30 years before , and it was difficult to reconcile the Helsinki pledge to refrain from interference in other countries ' affairs with the Brezhnev doctrine . |
| 13 | In the far north , where the landscape is turned white in winter by snow , mammals like rabbits and birds like ptarmigan have to change from brown to white and back again when the snows melt in spring . |
| 14 | A police spokesman said the person police want to hear from drove past in a large , light-coloured estate car after pulling out of Bagshaw Road , opposite the bank machine . |
| 15 | An alternative would be a huge gift , something large which the drag brides have difficulty getting through the door , such as a golfing umbrella , or a garden umbrella if the couple hope to move from bachelor flats into a house . |
| 16 | We concluded that women who are successful in political careers tend to come from middle- and upper-class backgrounds and from professional occupations ; they have either been able to rely on the resources and support of their families or to have minimised the handicaps deriving from women 's status within the family by remaining unmarried or childless or by entering public life later on when their familial obligations have , to a larger degree , been completed . |
| 17 | The view is excellent from all seats , although the two passengers in the middle of the benches have to lean from side to side to make the most of it . |