Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [noun sg] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to 200 children infected with HIV , the Aids virus , by tainted blood products are expected to claim compensation from the Government . |
| 2 | The front teeth of venomous snakes may be modified to conduct venom from the glands in the upper jaw to the tip of the tooth . |
| 3 | In May 1990 Cape Verde joined the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) in a move designed to encourage investment from the estimated 600,000 expatriate Cape Verdeans living for the most part in the USA and Europe . |
| 4 | It has been a point frequently made that the characters exposed to ridicule are never given attributes that can have been designed to evoke sympathy from the reader ; frequently quite the contrary . |
| 5 | If art is an attempt to impose structure and meaning onto this chaos , there is no artefact more deliberately structured than the contemporary Hollywood movie , designed to prise money from the masses and reasssure them that good guys do n't necessarily finish last . |
| 6 | Others , however , decried this suggestion as a Republican manoeuvre designed to deflect criticism from the President by placing the responsibility for cuts in public spending on the Democratic majority within congress . |
| 7 | Reroughing is a procedure designed to recover pattern from the discarded rough values . |
| 8 | Traditional typesetter like Linotype , Compugraphic and Monotype have moved to accommodate output from the low-cost software , generally by accepting PostScript instructions as an input , while the professional packages from companies such as Magna , GB Techniques among others now pay more than passing attention to facilities like soft preview and laser proofing . |
| 9 | At Cardiff , Newport and Swansea the docks were built to export coal from the valleys and metal sheets from the tinplate and zinc works . |
| 10 | The violence of the language used by the chronicler of St Albans shows his hatred of the Forest system , which was so often used to extort money from the monasteries . |
| 11 | Okun ( 1975 ) characterized this sort of trade-off as a ‘ leaky bucket ’ , which lost some of its contents ( disincentive effects and administration costs ) when used to carry income from the rich to the poor . |
| 12 | The National Grid Company has always maintained that the 400,000-volt overhead line from Teesside to Shipton , near York , is needed to carry power from the Enron station being built at Wilton . |
| 13 | It is these induced voltages which are used to extract energy from the mechanical system and provide electromagnetic damping . |
| 14 | Desperate to cling to power , it had agreed to accept help from the US . |
| 15 | Since 1984 the Justice Department has had authority to prosecute terrorists who attack Americans abroad , but the FBI has had to request permission from the host countries to return them to the US . |
| 16 | Pupils would no doubt be intrigued to learn how the milk-can was used to fetch milk from the farm , or filled up from a churn on the milkman 's cart . |
| 17 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 18 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
| 19 | The system — developed jointly by BP , Statoil and Baker Hughes Inteq ( formerly Exlog ) — was used to log core from the Statoil-operated Norne Field discovery well in block 6608/10–3 . |
| 20 | Members also agreed to seek permission from the policy and resources committee , at its December meeting , for the £700,000 needed to fund the development , which would be financed by the sale of the land at the St Helens Road site . |
| 21 | It looked as though it had been woven like the baskets which were used to collect tea from the old plantations . |
| 22 | The companies will work closely with BP in reviewing all aspects of the operation of the vessel used to produce oil from the small Donan oilfield 150 miles north-east of Aberdeen . |
| 23 | He alleged the ‘ deliberate distortion ’ was employed to deflect attention from the Dublin Government 's ‘ ambivalent attitude to terrorism ’ . |
| 24 | After 10 minutes of infusion , the manometric catheter was removed , two sips of tap water were given to clear acid from the oesophagus , and 22 hours of pH monitoring were started . |
| 25 | However , it seemed that each sex could have learnt something from the other on this occasion ; by the end of the day , the beautifully laid-out nursery , ready to provide the young arrivals with constructive play activities , was reduced to utter chaos from the tidal force of juvenile anarchy . |
| 26 | Koch had hoped to remove Conner from the final trials , which begin on Saturday , so he could spend the next 25 days honing his chosen boat for the America 's Cup match against one of the two challengers — New Zealand or Il Moro de Venecia — which starts on May 9 . |
| 27 | At the beginning of the emancipation process reformers had hoped to transfer land from the gentry to the serfs by drawing on the resources of the exchequer . |
| 28 | In teaching history , pupils need to be encouraged to treat evidence from the past in a rather different way , from a secondary source . |
| 29 | Those were the broken spears and spinning , shattered wheels of chariots whose mournful death had so affected her as she had tried to protect Scathach from the Scald-crows . |
| 30 | The firm 's owner had tried to get funding from the IFI but could n't even get the application form . |