Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the devastating fungus Cordyceps militaris nearly fills its host 's body cavity with fungal tissue , absorbing nutrients from the rich haemolymph ( the body fluid of the insect ) , literally starving the hapless insect to death from within . |
| 2 | He knew about Lamarck 's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics , but dismissed this as a secondary process that could not account for the whole range of adaptations ( he must also have been aware of the strong opposition to Lamarckism from Owen and the conservative forces in science ) . |
| 3 | Our analysis was based on internal comparisons , and selection bias would be introduced only if the relation of head circumference and ponderal index to death from cardiovascular disease differed in those who were or were not traced . |
| 4 | As with public response to Report from Iron Mountain in 1967 ( another well-referenced work ) , there was enormous capital in the implication that the events described just might have really happened . |
| 5 | The reason people thought she was naked all through the film was because she displayed a different attitude to sex from the one that prevailed in films at that time . |
| 6 | As long as the habit clings , to derive evaluations directly from ‘ Be aware ’ will feel like making an indefensible leap to value from fact . |
| 7 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 8 | Perhaps disappointingly , after all this thought to protection from viruses , we have not been seriously attacked : the worst that happened was an attempt to lead us into an adventure game . |
| 9 | And so his words , ‘ Bless those who persecute you ; bless and do not curse ’ sound like a counsel of perfection only if we fail to realise the process of transformation which is needed to enable us realistically to respond in this way to aggression from others . |
| 10 | The plan had succeeded in reducing the annual rate of inflation from 70 to 10 per cent , and had reduced the ratio of public debt to GDP from 206 to 132 per cent . |
| 11 | The words of the Spell picked just that moment to surface from the depths of his mind , as they always did in time of crisis . |
| 12 | We are in the unique position of having privileged access to information from their workers in almost every region where refugees are concerned . |
| 13 | Built in the 1950s the Netheridge works provides basic treatment to sewage from homes and industry from a large part of Gloucester . |
| 14 | Not exactly the opposite end of the scale , but rather a complementary event designed to include a wider range of objects with an emphasis on attractive decorative objects at reasonable prices , the Fine Art and Antiques Fair at Olympia celebrates its twentieth year of existence with the largest event to date from 3 to 13 June . |
| 15 | Now 33 , Tabkay told of his gradual approach to Buddhism from his days as a student at university in Norwich . |
| 16 | The vast majority of the population , even if they do own some consumption property , certainly have little access to income from productive assets . |
| 17 | Although teacher training represented one of the three major priorities identified by the Warnock Committee , the resources devoted to this priority have been meagre , despite a strong commitment to training from teachers , LEAs , staff of higher education , HMI and the DES itself . |
| 18 | Cutting public relations actually means saying to people in this city , you have got less access to information from the council . |
| 19 | The agency functions under the supervision of the state auditing board and must submit its audited report to parliament from year to year . |
| 20 | Cool response to temptation from slice of Forbidden Fruit Alison Daniels , in Dublin , gauges reaction to the publication of extracts from a book about a woman 's affair with the former Bishop of Galway |
| 21 | Tamm attributes his decision to embark on this long-term programme to stimulus from Romell , a distinguished Swedish ecologist and soil scientist . |
| 22 | A century or two ago , though , who could have imagined any practical benefit to mankind from such erudite and scholarly historical research as studies of the exact path of an eclipse , or painstaking measurements of the angular diameter of the Sun ? |
| 23 | John told Myfanwy Piper , after he came to England , that the successes of his puppet repertory had been a version of The Little Mermaid , performed to Ravel 's Introduction and Allegro for harp , strings and wind ; a dance for three ballet girls on one string to music from The Nutcracker ; and a series of adventures for two invented characters , a small boy named Pee Wee and his aunt , Anunziata . |
| 24 | President , as delegates will know this is my first report to Congress from the Public Services Section and in the time available could I warn delegates and onwards to eight hundred thousand members , their families and all their friends and the eight million members of the T U C and their families and their friends , a sizeable group of British people who , President , now consider theirselves as past , present and future patients of the N H S , and rightly so . |
| 25 | It was also made up of a hospital in Jerusalem which cares for both Arabs and Jews , an Ambulance Air Wing with 60 volunteer pilots and 50 planes throughout Europe , and an aeromedical section to return people to the nearest hospital to home from the scene of an accident again on a Europe-wide basis . |
| 26 | Crude resistance to idea from listener . |
| 27 | ‘ The question is why has n't Durham built them before ? ’ — Every child would be given a statutory right to education from the age of three under a Liberal Democrat government , its Darlington candidate vowed . |
| 28 | A LIFEBOAT crew plucked a young man to safety from the freezing North Sea . |
| 29 | Other factors may also be important : the mild upturn in fertility and its rapid failure evident after 1977 were forecast on other grounds : the impossibility of deferring children indefinitely ; the new contribution to fertility from remarriages . |
| 30 | If the townsmen found difficulty in making their voice heard , unyielding resistance to pressure from the rural masses was the primary domestic function of the State . |