Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst discussing Derwentwater he discourages drawing from a boat or small island , ‘ the passion for boat prospects is owing to the delusive fascinations of the water . ’ |
| 2 | They should be well placed to benefit from an increase in the number of direct point-to-point flights . |
| 3 | The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building . |
| 4 | He points to the way in which the law has developed from a maze of individual sets of circumstances in which one or other of the prerogative writs would lie to a general principle under which courts will review decisions on the three grounds of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety : see per Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410 . |
| 5 | As in that sequence ( 1 — 17 ) , so in this ( 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ) the I is suppressed altogether , the Thou has fallen from a pedestal to the gutter . |
| 6 | In its short life the EMS pound has fallen from a peak of DM3.03 to as low as DM2.86 . |
| 7 | Employment among lone mothers ( now 42 per cent ) has fallen from a peak of 49 per cent in 1979–81 although it is now higher than the low of 39 per cent in 1983–85 . |
| 8 | Since this treatment was introduced , the number of fatal overdoses has fallen from a peak of 192 in 1978 , to 152 in 1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 9 | The number of occupied psychiatric beds in England has fallen from a peak of 148 000 in 1954 to about 55 000 in 1990 . |
| 10 | Tree-planting has fallen from a peak of 29,000 hectares in the year to March 1988 to 17,300 hectares in 1992 , following the replacement of tax incentives for planting by a grant system in the 1988 budget . |
| 11 | As a result , the number of days lost each year through strikes has fallen from an average 12.9 million in the 1970s to less than a million last year — the lowest figure since records began a century ago . |
| 12 | First , the length of time which couples spend in shared accommodation has fallen from an average of almost three years for people who married before 1955 , to around one and a half years for people married in the late 1960s ( p. 12 ) . |
| 13 | Northampton did win a scrum against the head on their line but they could not escape and a ferocious tackle by Pepper knocked Foale backwards as he tried to drive from a scrum . |
| 14 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 15 | The magnitude of the decrease has varied from a fall of 88% in the white population of USA to a much smaller decrease in Norway . |
| 16 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 17 | That if this is going home then that sort of thing does n't need to come from a form tutor , other than a sa er a sort of generalised one as well , if you like . |
| 18 | In practice , more than this minimum is likely to be required for entry to the majority of the courses offered by the University , in order to ensure that those admitted to degree courses possess a sufficiently broad educational background and that they may reasonably be expected to benefit from a university education . |
| 19 | However 3,076 prisoners and 1,731 others on parole were expected to benefit from a pardon law , details of which were published on May 14 . |
| 20 | In Sweden the native ( albeit primitive ) Swedish Polled has dropped from a quarter of a million milking cows in the 1950s to perhaps 2,500 today , pushed out by imported Friesians and by the amalgamated Swedish Red-and-White , while the national dairy herd as a whole has dropped from 1.6 million cows in 1950 to about 576,000 in the 1980s , though the average milk yield per cow has doubled . |
| 21 | Its vote has dropped from a high of 62% in 1972 to 55% in 1990 . |
| 22 | However , three quarters of the fall in total mortality since 1970 has come from a reduction in deaths attributed to diseases of the circulatory system ( figure ) . |
| 23 | Funding has come from a variety of sources including the Wolfson Foundation and Charitable Trust , the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund , the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London , the British Glass Education Trust and private donations . |
| 24 | A CALL for a big shake-up in the structure of the Scottish leagues has come from a shock source . |
| 25 | Aid agencies all over the world have tried to ease their situation , but more immediate help has come from a Hereford farmer . |
| 26 | The only squeak of protest so far has come from a Law Society spokesman , Mr Jeremy Allen , who is also a Nottingham solicitor : ’ An enormous number of people had had their journeys interrupted and it has caused them concern . |
| 27 | The major contribution to informed debate about the search for sites for the disposal of nuclear wastes has come from a group of geographers ( Openshaw et al. 1989 ) and a GIS approach to this problem can pay high dividends . |
| 28 | Pressure has come from a number of sources in the economic , political , social and legal environment , and there is survey evidence to demonstrate a growth in the number of consultative committees now in operation . |
| 29 | Part of this has come from an influx of retired people , and it has therefore accentuated the already very unbalanced age composition of the population resulting from the emigration of the younger people . |
| 30 | With so few black professionals in post , most pressure for anti-racist reforms has to come from a variety of sources , from white politicians or administrators or black pressure groups working in particular localities in conjunction with anti-racist teachers . |