Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] from [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |
| 2 | ‘ As you should know from your own experiences ’ — he glanced up at the framed portrait of Commonweal School staff and pupils , September 1948 — ‘ the notion that the camera never lies is a fallacy . |
| 3 | Banks and buildings societies are perfectly within their rights to choose who should benefit from their special offers . |
| 4 | Where the purchase is made out of distributable profits , the company must transfer from its distributable reserves to a " capital redemption reserve " a sum equal to the nominal value of the buy-back shares ( s170(1) ) . |
| 5 | Eismark said he felt guilty because his first marriage had never ended , he said it could never end — das wird nie vorüber sein — and it would always be a secret he must keep from his new wife . |
| 6 | Of course , the fewer calories the body uses from food the more it must draw from your surplus body fat , so this adds up to faster weight loss . |
| 7 | He changes slowly from messing Lennie around and playing stupid jokes on him , to treating Lennie as a friend , a companion , but someone he must protect from his own strength and stupidity . |
| 8 | ‘ The decision must come from your own heart , querida . |
| 9 | Since bleomycin degrades DNA in a catalytic fashion , and all our cleavage experiments are performed at very low antibiotic concentrations ( nanomolar ) , it must dissociate from its first binding site before a second cleavage event can occur . |
| 10 | Like other new-minted pidgin languages , it gives insights into the universal linguistic blueprint we may inherit from our sapient ancestors of 40,000 years ago , at the beginning of modern times . |
| 11 | ‘ I warned you this type of thing might arise from our particular situation , Miss Castaway . ’ |
| 12 | If we read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ through with Tate 's commentary at our elbow , we see at any given point what he means : he has a good ear , as we might expect from his own poems ( which are however metrical , as ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ is n't ) . |
| 13 | If that sounds like the sort of utterance one might expect from your typical entrepreneur , it is probably because Michael Hirst is a great believer in the art . |
| 14 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
| 15 | The reproof of Beatrice is not , I conceive , as remote as it might seem from our own world . |
| 16 | With demand still growing rapidly , it was obvious that the lower levels of investment in electricity imposed by Gaitskell ( however necessary they might seem from his broader viewpoint ) were inadequate . |
| 17 | He had hit the right note of playful yet dignified affection with the children — mischievous Sam Yaxley had proved an ally there ; and even throughout the days of his own distress he had comforted the sick and sorrowful , acting in the simple trust that , however removed chose impoverished lives might seem from his own , they were members of one another . |
| 18 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 19 | In each case we may trace from them important effects on learning in schools today on the curriculum plans , on policy and programmes for teacher training and , most significant , on the attitudes of teachers themselves and of those who train them . |
| 20 | If Labour were the biggest party he feared the FTSE100 Index could fall from its current 2,382.7 to 2,200 . |
| 21 | Cast your votes in the the Awards , which are sponsored by the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror in conjunction with the British Videogram Association , and you could win from our stunning prize line-up : A SEAT Ibiza SLXi , worth around £7,500 , which has a System Porsche 1.2 fuel-injected engine , complete with three-way catalyser . |
| 22 | Such polarities were evidently valuable aids to several generations of Wölflinn 's pupils who could benefit from his personal teaching as well as the rather more rigid theory in his books . |
| 23 | For that plus all the news you 'd expect from your favourite lunchtime show , join Angus , Lloyd and me tomorrow at five past one . |
| 24 | Moreover , through their well directed efforts , that vast resource of past literature and scriptures , every item of which is capable of innumerable interpretations , could be saved from that ultimate oblivion and loss to humanity which could result from its sheer overwhelming quantity and complexity . |
| 25 | One early sign of the rewards the FDP could expect from its moderating role was the election of one of its leaders , Theoder Heuss , as Federal President in September 1949 . |
| 26 | I mean , just a few odds and ends that you could do from your nice |
| 27 | He is very wealthy and everyone looks up to him but as for me I could understand from my limited Italian he is very sad because one of his ships is very late in arriving in port and is feared lost . |
| 28 | Eventually the guard climbed aboard and entered Mrs Ross 's carriage and demanded to know who had pulled the communication cord which none of the passengers could see from their seated position . |
| 29 | She broke off , and could see from his arrogant aggressive stance that she could deny his accusation until she was blue in the face but he was not going to believe her . |
| 30 | She was miserable now but inevitably she 'd recover from her first heavy affair . |