Example sentences of "[verb] from [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 With a bit of modification and improvement ideas lifted from all sorts of sources will help in improving the school .
2 It should not be supposed from such criteria for choosing Christianity or retaining paganism that pagans were so simple-minded as to think prosperity and material adversity automatic grounds for conversion or retention of paganism as the case might be .
3 In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state .
4 A customer may buy from several competitors in a given field ; a supplier will invariably supply to more than one business and yet , depending on the facts , the employer may be able to argue that these connections are sufficiently special .
5 When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City .
6 Endorsement of the award has come from many sectors of industry , including Stirling Gallacher , chairman of Sutcliffe Services Group Limited , who says that people are the key to our current and future success as leading contract caterers .
7 Fund raising for the state-of-the-art machine began in 1987 and senior technician Peter Barton said help had come from several organisations including the WRVS , the Guides and the League of Friends .
8 Much of what we now know , in a still difficult and very controversial area , about different kinds of ‘ televised violence ’ and their differential effects on differently situated children , or about the effects of different kinds of political broadcasting — party statements , electoral reporting , definitions of the ‘ main issues ’ — has come from this kind of research .
9 As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business .
10 The revolutionaries might as well have come from another planet for all the relevance their schemes had to the real concerns of the peasantry .
11 This is the only plausible explanation I have found , in a lifetime spent in television , for the fact that a single programme can be simultaneously attacked from both ends of the political spectrum for bias in the opponents ' favour .
12 The joy and gaiety seeped from that hall as the masked player 's irritation became obvious .
13 The irony is even though the travellers have now been evicted from this field in Enstone … it will stay unused … the landowers are being paid to keep it that way as part of the Ministry of Agriculture 's Set Aside policy
14 That many of the findings here are similar to those of our other work on adult education , we feel adds to the value of what we report from this study of applicants .
15 I have a memory , half forgotten from that time of youth and magic , that knows of a secret garden .
16 Therefore , it is inadvisable to extrapolate from those studies to disadvantaged populations .
17 Now to extrapolate from this example to a general argument that familiarity of a subject is a disadvantage would clearly be absurd .
18 Criticism of the theories has been omitted from this chapter for the sake of simplicity .
19 Nyamwisi Movingi had resigned from this post on March 22 , accusing the government of leading the country to disaster .
20 What is unique about the contribution you expect from each member of your team ?
21 In the wild the male remains with the nest , protecting from all intruders except other females which he will attempt to entice in to spawn with .
22 A child who has problems in any area of development may be regarded as being likely to benefit from some form of special educational placement , either full time or part time .
23 However , if the repurchase price contained in the options is the market value at the date of exercise , it is probable that the buyer acquires both the opportunity to benefit from any increase in the value of the asset and the risk of loss due to an adverse change in its value .
24 For the investor to benefit from any increase in the value of a company it is essential for a market to exist for the shares .
25 This combination of lower costs and increased market share makes the business well placed to benefit from any improvement in trading conditions .
26 ‘ So far we have identified almost 50 separate groups who work closely enough together to benefit from this type of training , ’ said E.S .
27 To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far .
28 Thick pipes sprouted from several places in the range , some disappearing through holes in the ceiling , others through the floor , while one snaked along the skirting board before vanishing through a door .
29 The Tories could profit from this switch of allegiance and , with the opposition vote split , Mr Forsyth could get home .
30 My Lords , in view of the terms of the letter from the Crown Prosecution Service I am satisfied that the Crown Prosecution Service can not profit from any disclosures in the present proceedings .
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