Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] from [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 2 | Similarly , it was impossible to gather from details of courses discontinued or planned whether there were any general patterns of expansion or reduction . |
| 3 | The strongest opposition is likely to come from supporters of nuclear power , which was cut sharply in the Clinton budget . |
| 4 | In an industry dominated by much larger producers who were able to benefit from economies of scale , the government therefore concluded that the sale to Ford was preferable to continued state subsidy and/or ever closer links with Honda . |
| 5 | That may sound strange — what I mean is , I 'm always trying to imagine what they think of me ; I do n't seem able to look from inside of myself , outwards . |
| 6 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , of course , and what he is seeing in his mind 's eye , after years of study into world-wide distribution of disease in relation to diet , is the stool of someone unlikely to die from cancer of the bowel . |
| 7 | Companies will also be able to ascertain from purchasers of shares before they become members ( such as purchasers of shares by instalments in a privatisation issue ) whether or not they will want to receive summary financial statements . |
| 8 | Nick points are often difficult to distinguish from breaks of slope caused by hard bands of rock , especially as nick points will tend to be held up on such hard beds through the difficulty of eroding resistant rock . |
| 9 | If we wish to study Lake Tahoe from the point of view of hydrology , fauna and water quality we may find it necessary to extract from maps of these features the polygonal area defining the extent of the lake . |
| 10 | The system is therefore liable to suffer from inaccuracies of the type discussed above . |
| 11 | Liable to escape from collections of ornamental waterfowl. 23 — 27 in. ( 58 — 69 cm . ) . |