Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this common-carrier principle has produced little such trade because negotiations were soon bogged down in technical committees full of engineers from the very monopolies that stood most to lose from cross-border competition . |
| 2 | The worker was eventually to benefit from better conditions of work ; for the moment , electricity probably affected him most by providing transport for travel to his work from greater distances . |
| 3 | Is English law right to define rape in this way , and thereby to exclude from this offence such conduct as forced oral sex ( fellatio ) , cunnilingus , and buggery ? |
| 4 | Such payment , furthermore , is thought not only to detract from any generosity that might otherwise characterize her action , but altogether to cast doubt on her motives and her reliability . |
| 5 | ‘ So far we have identified almost 50 separate groups who work closely enough together to benefit from this type of training , ’ said E.S . |
| 6 | If you are a fish who basically lives and breathes in water , but who occasionally ventures on land , perhaps to cross from one mud puddle to another thereby surviving a drought , you might benefit not just from half a lung but from one-hundredth of a lung . |
| 7 | In a local area , Tit for Tat individuals may meet each other often enough to prosper from mutual cooperation , even though calculations that take into account only the global frequency in the total population might suggest that they are below the ‘ knife-edge ’ critical frequency . |
| 8 | Lydia did not castigate herself for so disliking a fellow-being , believing that it was sufficient merely to refrain from overt unkindness . |
| 9 | An example was the way that community groups with apparently widely different aims and interests could be brought together to learn from each other . |
| 10 | In September 1915 , the UDC refused to accept their affiliation on the grounds that the UDC had less to gain from any activity the Fellowship might undertake on its behalf than it had to lose from being associated with the doctrine of non-resistance . |
| 11 | Because I changed out there , but we had to pay about five pounds just to change from one line to the other . |
| 12 | I still love playing , but at my pensionable age it takes longer to recover from each match . |
| 13 | Recently such speakers have tended more and more to disappear from sociolinguistic studies for a variety of reasons . |
| 14 | Hitchcock enables users to generate QuickTime movies , print directly to videotape from hard disk , export a professional edit decision list for compatibility with high-end post-production suites , or integrate with Video F/X for tape and disk-based editing . |
| 15 | You 're a third of the way into your second year , with another full year still to run from next September . ’ |
| 16 | Others use optical detectors , which seem to respond more quickly to smoke from smouldering fires such as those involving upholstered furniture . |
| 17 | Anselm was to learn too late that a landowner had more to fear from grasping tenants beneath him than from the king above . |
| 18 | ‘ Kavanagh said the steak was n't great but that the lamb was good , ’ Maggie added but Moran was already on his way out again , muttering that not even simple things were made clear in this house and if simple things could n't be made clear how was a person ever to get from one day to the next in this world . |
| 19 | Much information was eventually to emerge from medical sources . |
| 20 | Violence spilling over from the conflict in Croatia has escalated dramatically in recent weeks after the republic 's 1.9 million Muslims and 750,000 Croats voted overwhelmingly to secede from Serb-controlled remnants of Yugoslavia . |
| 21 | Now to extrapolate from this example to a general argument that familiarity of a subject is a disadvantage would clearly be absurd . |
| 22 | ‘ Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener , courage the greater as our strength grows less … may he lament forever who thinks now to turn from this war-play . ’ |
| 23 | His hands did n't roam , did n't take liberties that she might not have wanted him to take ; only his head moved , his mouth , as he kissed her first one way , then another ; drew her lower lip , infinitely gently , between his ; sampled the top lip , her tongue ; moved languidly to approach from another direction . |
| 24 | At no time is it sufficient simply to extrapolate from current costs and patterns of use to the future . |
| 25 | Do you envy other women who seem to manage their lives without getting anxious — who appear even to benefit from difficult situations ? |
| 26 | They 've stepped down here to get from one piece of pavement to another , yet they look like they spent their whole lives underground . |
| 27 | However , whichever party wins the next election will do well to learn from recent years . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're here to recover from last night ’ |
| 29 | He may have visited Glastonbury on 30 November 1032 , and the five charters from 1033 ( S 967 – 70 , 972 ) are the most to survive from any year of his reign . |
| 30 | In general , Labour seemed relatively to suffer from high poll tax levels even where it was not in control of the council . |