Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New moves tend to come from middle-class artists who have had the opportunity to absorb a great deal early and feel sufficiently confident in an educational and financially secure context to move it along . |
| 2 | Research proposals therefore tend to come from established departments , and also tend increasingly to consist of safe , conservative projects which have possibilities for future income-generation for the universities . |
| 3 | Hooligans tend to come from social backgrounds where masculine aggression is highly valued . |
| 4 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 5 | Whereas unit production costs tend to benefit from increased volume of production , distribution costs tend to worsen . |
| 6 | ‘ British industry is far more productive , far more competitive , better managed and with better industrial relations , in a better tax climate than at the beginning of the 1980s , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ so it is better placed to benefit from economic recovery . ’ |
| 7 | To ensure shortest-path routes for cyclists and to increase their safety and comfort , cycle traffic can be permitted to deviate from existing traffic regulations . |
| 8 | You can imagine my annoyance , then , that a ) there are no fiscal financial incentives whatsoever to encourage more people to cycle , and b ) that my health has to suffer from car-induced pollution although I do not contribute to it myself . |
| 9 | However , there is little basis for confidence , since , as Frankel writes , ‘ research activity has been concerned almost exclusively with the probability of neediness and not with the distribution of those who might be expected to benefit from particular interventions . |
| 10 | Sex Roles ’ and Psychology of Women Quarterly 's occasional articles and special issues on lesbianism repeat the ‘ just like us ’ parallelism of conventional psychology by dealing predominantly with areas where lesbians are commonly expected to differ from heterosexual women , like gender role , relationships , work role , and parenthood . |
| 11 | Revenue from tax and non-tax sources was estimated at TSh118,547 million , while some TSh85,653 million — about 42 per cent of the total budget — was expected to come from overseas donors . |
| 12 | In response to higher than expected government revenue in 1989 , as a result of an increase in the value of exports , especially oil , projected revenue for 1990 was set at naira 47,657million ( US$1.00=N 7.6627 as at Jan. 8 , 1990 ) , of which N 38,628 million was expected to come from crude oil export ( based on a estimated price of US$16 per barrel ) and N 9,029 million from non-oil sources . |
| 13 | Financing is expected to come from foreign investors , and the project is backed by the Catalan government . |
| 14 | Total expenditure was expected to rise by 19 per cent to TSh141,248 million , of which 30 per cent was expected to come from foreign loans and assistance . |
| 15 | SDO Craggs said : ‘ We want to hear from young people in their early 20s . |
| 16 | Police are hunting a man who posed as a policeman , a water board worker and an electricity man to try to steal from old people . |
| 17 | Well , as Messrs Waugh and Ingrams could confirm , that 's just the sort of treacherous , duplicitous behaviour one has come to expect from young people today ( just as this shameless betrayal of an employee is typical of us incipient oldsters ) . |
| 18 | Bold assertions are what we have come to expect from visiting Americans of dubious pedigree but they come to Biggs almost as an afterthought . |
| 19 | In effect , the bidder thereby divides the profit which is expected to result from improved efficiency between itself and the original shareholders . |
| 20 | Many obstacles appear to stem from central-local relations and conflict between the public and private sector . |
| 21 | Shevardnadze said that in order to create favourable conditions for negotiations on the reduction of short-range nuclear weapons , the Soviet Union proposed to withdraw from central Europe by the end of 1990 , 60 tactical missile launchers , over 250 nuclear artillery units , and 1,500 nuclear warheads . |
| 22 | They could be taught , for instance , that the patient may sometimes need to withdraw from social contact with his or her family . |
| 23 | COLONIAL Mutual has just opened its range of Rainbow personal pensions to money people want to transfer from occupational schemes as they change jobs . |
| 24 | However such effects might be expected to arise from relative inflation rates rather than a UK measure alone . |
| 25 | Finally , I want to move from cognitive models of word recognition to cognitive models of face recognition . |
| 26 | They also want to move from single function , stand alone and relatively simple to administer departmental or small solutions , to corporate wide , integrated and larger versions which will be harder to administer . |
| 27 | Yet his curiosity as to Jaq 's request seemed to proceed from reasonable concern rather than from the paranoia which often afflicted rulers . |
| 28 | It would be startling if the mere fact that the defendant invoked a Community law defence , with sufficient substance ( but no more ) to escape rejection under the narrowly drawn principle of acte clair , should be capable of itself of excluding this useful jurisdiction , thus providing encouragement to those seeking to profit from law-breaking activities to adopt this method of prolonging what may prove to be a source of illicit profit . |
| 29 | ‘ Although it is likely that future gains will be more modest , profitability will be robust , ’ it said , adding that the industry can also expect to benefit from growing demand , especially from canny corporate customers , and from balanced regulation — public service commissions are increasingly approving alternative regulatory plans which permit the companies to boost earnings above a targeted level , provided they improve efficiency and share earnings gains with their subscribers . |
| 30 | In 1987 a team of scientists found small amounts of diamonds in meteorites which , because of their composition , seemed to come from interstellar space . |