Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RORY Underwood , England 's most-capped player and record try-scorer , has dramatically reversed his decision to retire from international rugby . |
| 2 | FRANCO BARESI , the AC Milan captain , last night reversed his decision to retire from international football . |
| 3 | I long for the protection of a written constitution like that of the US with its First Amendment , which elevates freedom of expression above freedom to hide from intellectual challenge , or even vulgar verbal abuse . |
| 4 | Meditating on the Anglo-Rushdie tragedy , he ‘ long(s) for the protection of a written constitution like that of the US … which elevates freedom of expression above freedom to hide from intellectual challenge , or even vulgar verbal abuse . ’ |
| 5 | If he wants to ‘ elevate freedom of expression above freedom to hide from intellectual challenge , or even vulgar verbal abuse ’ , then why should Muslims not elevate the obligation to defend Muhammad 's honour above the liberal desire to prostitute his reputation ? |
| 6 | However , if the repurchase price contained in the options is the market value at the date of exercise , it is probable that the buyer acquires both the opportunity to benefit from any increase in the value of the asset and the risk of loss due to an adverse change in its value . |
| 7 | An individual 's diet may vary for many reasons and while starvation is unusual in the Western world because of the availability of food , it is still possible for people in the West to suffer from inadequate nutrition . |
| 8 | So there must be doubt about the extent to which their revised choice marks a genuine readiness to profit from extra information about credit costs , rather than mere uncertainty . |
| 9 | Kim , who had failed to win the presidency in 1971 and 1987 , stated his intention to retire from active politics with immediate effect . |
| 10 | The principal new result to come from this work is that bright-point flares are often associated with increased emission in much larger structures . |
| 11 | So long as the other 85% continues to rebound — thanks to stronger exports outside Europe and the boost to demand from lower interest rates — continental recession will dampen Britain 's recovery , but not block it . |
| 12 | I do not have a great deal to learn from such policy documents . |
| 13 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 14 | In February 1989 Ghafar Baba had formally assumed the duties of acting Prime Minister in order to allow Mahathir to recuperate from cardiac surgery . |
| 15 | Now it seems to me that the Churches have a great deal to gain from this method of selling their message . |
| 16 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 17 | The non-sectarian Alliance Party , represented in North Down by deputy leader Addie Morrow , hopes with its message of peace and reconciliation to benefit from public weariness at the squabbling of traditional Unionists . |
| 18 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 19 | Indeed , as experimental psychology of animals evolves from simple behaviourism — the simple response experiments of Skinner — to the more complex information-theory of positive science , it becomes ever clearer that the minds of animals — and I use the word advisedly , meaning their capacity to reason from stored information — are extremely complex , and this imposes a greater responsibility on us . |
| 20 | And it seems to me there is no reason to suppose that because there are more houses , the propensity to move from one house to another declines . |
| 21 | That is an extreme case but a marketing man may subtly resist the plan to move from premium pricing to commodity pricing , or he may sabotage the plan to squeeze more profit out of old products rather than spend money on new ones . |
| 22 | But now his injuries have caught up with him , despite a brave battle to recover from recent knee surgery . |
| 23 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 24 | people want more mobility to travel from one place to another . |
| 25 | In addition to hiding from themselves , teachers also begin to feel the need to hide from each other . |
| 26 | Paradise derives from the French parados which is a mound behind a fortified place to secure from reverse attack or fire . |
| 27 | Anger over their failure to benefit from increased television revenue combined with the falling value of the maximum wage of £20 in relation to average industrial earnings led to a new surge of militancy in the 1950s . |
| 28 | Failure to benefit from some union policies need not preclude membership if advantages accrue from other union policies . |
| 29 | Their members are appointed by the Secretary of State , with between 40% and 60% of the membership to come from higher education . |
| 30 | I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one . |