Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change the patient 's position two hourly to encourage secretions to drain from the chest and to relieve pressure on the chest wall . |
| 2 | They should be made to correspond more closely with private sector practice and allowed the freedom to borrow from the market place , the group says . |
| 3 | Walsh announced his decision to retire from the government on April 2 ; although he gave no reasons , he had earlier suggested that the government lacked sufficient political will to confront the country 's grave economic problems . |
| 4 | In the parable of the unmerciful servant which ( not without reason ) comes immediately before Jesus 's teaching on divorce , Jesus strongly emphasises the responsibility to forgive from the heart ( Matt. 18:35 ) . |
| 5 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 6 | Expert systems are the first commercial products to come from the world of Artificial Intelligence research . |
| 7 | In its 1969 report , the Committee on the Enforcement of Judgement Debts chaired by Mr Justice Payne recommended the setting up of a Court Enforcement Office , the functions of which would include assisting the creditor to obtain from the debtor ‘ as much as he can properly afford ’ , to liquidate the debts as soon as possible and to protect the debtor against undue hardship or harassment . |
| 8 | They merely pave the way for an increasing proportion of those emissions to come from the burning of imported coal . |
| 9 | Other birds to benefit from the treatment include a tawny owl with an injured leg , now making a fast recovery . |
| 10 | Other Essex groups to benefit from the Foundation for Sports and Arts grants are : |
| 11 | One way of describing the ideal low-pass response depicted in figure 12.1(a) is through the relation This suggested to Butterworth that where n is a large integer , ought to constitute a good response to synthesise from the point of view of creating high-performance low-pass filters . |
| 12 | Dixons has been one of the first retail chains to suffer from the slowing of retail demand . |
| 13 | Other big Japanese consumer-electronics companies , such as Sharp , Casio , Sega and Nintendo , are also showing interest in producing gadgets to profit from the blurring of boundaries between TV , telecoms and computers . |
| 14 | The Crown Prosecution Service were informed of Buckley J. 's order and of the plaintiffs ' intention to appeal from the decision of Wright J. , and were asked whether they wished to intervene or make representations in the appeal . |
| 15 | Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates . |
| 16 | It is unique in its opportunities to establish from the outset good habits in terms of expectations of parental involvement and willingness to participate in honest exchange about the child 's progress . |
| 17 | The to infinitive forces the mind to jump from the cause ( cry ) to the fully fledged existence of the effect ( the instantaneous re-entry into the dimension of distinctness ) . |
| 18 | The evaluators were convinced that the opportunities for schools to benefit from the expertise and efforts of the DCSLs were considerably enhanced by the project . |
| 19 | Also in March Roh stated that " for the sake of the nation and its political development " he should be " the last president to come from the army " . |
| 20 | He then requested Lucy and Jean to come from the kitchen , and , standing between them , he placed an arm round their shoulders as he said , ‘ This is Lucy and Jean , who have attended to your refreshments on behalf of Stella , my hostess , who is indisposed . |
| 21 | Middlesbrough will be the only North-East club to benefit from the bonanza . |
| 22 | The proposals were given a cautious welcome by politicians on the left , but the right-wing parties decried them as an attempt to distract from the President 's and the government 's current unpopularity . |
| 23 | Is the Minister 's very carefully worded reply an attempt to distract from the fact that the proportion of the elderly in the population is increasing and will continue to do so ? |
| 24 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 25 | David Hume went further , transferring causal power from the world of objects to the mind , making of it a tendency of the mind to pass from the thing we call ‘ the cause ’ to the one we call ‘ the effect ’ . |
| 26 | Other sectors to benefit from the market surge included the life insurers , where Prudential rose 11 to 219p and Legal & General added 14 to 339p before settling at 335p . |
| 27 | It was partly because of this experience that he had no hesitation in supporting wholeheartedly the Roskill recommendation to depart from the principle of jury trial in complex fraud cases , against the ( ultimately successful ) Home Office view advocated by Hurd . |
| 28 | As autumn arrives , the birds migrate south , leaving the foxes to scavenge from the bird and reindeer carcasses and anything that might be washed up on the shore . |
| 29 | She said her colleague , PC Mark Whitehouse , 25 , had reversed the car in an attempt to escape from the gunman , but he had crashed into a fence . |
| 30 | Fraud is difficult to prove , but misrepresentation may also allow the signer to escape from the effect of the terms . |