Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [noun sg] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the E111 form was not obtained prior to departure , the medical costs are insured by the policy but it is possible to obtain recovery from the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 2 | Nor is it likely to be possible to infer motive from the outcome or likely outcome of a transaction , since the fact that a project yields less than optimal profits is an inherent risk in all business ventures and except in extreme cases will not reveal the existence of a non-profit goal . |
| 3 | they had to ‘ sell ’ changes in operating policy to central management , and had to be prepared to accept advice from the ‘ general officers ’ at headquarters about desirable changes . |
| 4 | It was perfectly proper to infer prejudice from the mere passage of time : in Cherry 's case the magistrate 's decision was based on two flawed findings of justification and no prejudice . |
| 5 | Charabanc Theatre Company are grateful to receive funding from the Arts Council of N.I . |
| 6 | Other people with less florid but equally chronic mental health problems , however , could find it much harder in future to get help from the busy statutory services . |
| 7 | A group move is likely to attract attention from the media . |
| 8 | The Justice Department has similar Guidelines setting out the situations in which vertical restraints are likely to attract attention from the authorities . |
| 9 | John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire . |
| 10 | Before you detect on the beaches in Portugal , you are supposed to obtain permission from the local Captain di Maritimo ( something like our local harbour-master ) , but I could never find him . |
| 11 | But the Tories have been quick to draw comfort from the latest figures , pointing out that the underlying trend showed that the rate of increase appeared to be levelling off in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 12 | The initiative 's success will depend absolutely on the effectiveness of the web of partnerships that can be woven ; the Foundation will be equally glad to draw advantage from the experience of others creating their own versions of partnership . |
| 13 | He 's likely to get meningitis from the wound . |
| 14 | It is valuable to collect information from the family network , and from involved professionals , as by weighing up and balancing different contributions it is possible to build up a picture of recent events to complete an assessment . |
| 15 | Mr Gould is likely to gain support from the Left-inclined sections of the party at Westminster , in the constituencies and in the trade union movement although he envisaged an end to the influence of the trade union block vote in party affairs . |
| 16 | Though many in Brazil feel that this softening in the law was due to lobby pressure from the multinationals , others take a different view . |
| 17 | And in some cases the assumptions you have asked us to cost are vulnerable to counter attack from the Opposition . |
| 18 | Dissatisfaction with the original McAllister plan ran strongly enough in some road running circles to lead many to advocate secession from the AAA ( a view aired , if only speculatively , in RUNNING Magazine ! ) . |
| 19 | It must always , he suggests , be possible to criticize politics from the point of view of the ethical . |
| 20 | If future technological societies ever learn to harness tachyons and modulate them ( in the same way that we modulate radio waves ) they will be able to communicate information from the future to the past . |
| 21 | In the latter — the steppe and woodlands inhabited by Tatars , Altaians , Kirgiz , Buryats and Mongols — the Russians had to wage war against formidable enemies who were not only capable of putting up resistance to incursions into their territories , but also able to obtain support from the larger communities of Turkic-Mongol peoples to whom they were related . |
| 22 | A solicitor will generally be free to decide for himself whether or not to accept instructions from a client , though he must always bear in mind the statutory obligation not to discriminate against potential clients on the grounds of race , colour , sex etc ( see Chapter 3 ) and he must refuse to act or to continue to act in any of the following circumstances : ( 1 ) where his client seeks to insist on the solicitor conducting his case in a way which would involve some breach of law or professional regulation ; ( 2 ) where the client 's affairs are outside his professional competence ; ( 3 ) if he suspects that the instructions purporting to come from his client do not in fact represent the client 's wishes ; ( 4 ) where the solicitor is unable to obtain confirmation from the client of instructions received from a third person ; ( 5 ) where there is or is likely to be some conflict of interest involving the solicitor himself , his client , other clients ( present , past or prospective ) , or the firm ; ( 6 ) where the solicitor may be a material and not merely formal witness in any proceedings ; ( 7 ) where another solicitor has already received instructions which have not been formally withdrawn . |
| 23 | Local allies , it turned out , were often reluctant to accept guidance from the USSR ; some of them ( Egypt , Iraq , the Sudan and Ethiopia ) persecuted and even executed large numbers of their domestic communist party members , and others took different views on international issues ( Iraq , for instance , openly supported Somalia in the Ogaden war ) . |
| 24 | I had reached Adrar , so I was able to accept help from the lads . |
| 25 | Buying weekly television licence stamps can ease the burden somewhat and certain elderly or disabled people are able to receive help from the local authority with the cost of a licence . |
| 26 | It was foreseen that difficult situations might arise in the operation of such a scheme , for example two elderly dementia sufferers could live next door to one another , one able to receive support from the action project and the other not . |
| 27 | William Hammond Bartholomew was the Resident Engineer on this broad canal which was usual in that it has been able to resist competition from the railways . |
| 28 | Almost all foods are taken but they are reluctant to pick food from the floor of the aquarium . |
| 29 | They were able to harvest energy from the relative wind produced by the ship 's screw-driven movement through a calm . |
| 30 | ‘ A visit has the added advantage of people being able to buy ware from the visitor centre shop or our ‘ seconds ’ shop which has a selection of Wedgwood Group products for sale at reduced prices . ’ |