Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr. J.G.S. Gammell is to retire from the Board following the Annual General Meeting after 36 years of service .
2 Janet Jones , secretary of the British Tennis Umpires Association , is to retire from the post at the end of this year .
3 His profession is to profit from the person in the street .
4 The idea is to jump from a height of four and a half thousand feet to a tiny disc in the jump zone .
5 The only way to reach the bottom rung is to jump from the roof of a wooden hut the builders occasionally use for storing things .
6 Another idea is to garner from the experience of those present what the obstructions are , how they can be side-stepped , and produce a guide to best practice aimed at employers .
7 Unless monetary payment is to pass from the wife to the husband ( for instance , as in a case where the house is in the husband 's sole name and the husband and wife agree that it is to be transferred to husband and wife and held by them upon certain trusts provided the wife pays the husband a sum of moneysee Chapter 7 ) , when the husband may require such money for his own purchase of another property , a contract between the parties would appear to be unnecessary .
8 We are told by the Government that we must be prepared to tolerate environmental devastation and a senseless waste of more than £1,000 million worth of extra public money because the Ove Arup route is necessary if prosperity is to come from the regeneration of east London and the east Thames corridor .
9 Blade cleaning is dangerous so the technique is to work from the centre boss radially outwards , with short strokes of a well folded cloth , lifting pressure as the edge of the blade is reached .
10 The procedure is to obtain from the tables the PV values of both outlays and proceeds for each year .
11 The procedure is to obtain from the tables the PV values of both outlays and proceeds for each year .
12 The only totally safe way to proceed is to exclude from the operation of the general exclusion clauses all those classes of liability for which the UCTA imposes a total ban on exclusion clauses .
13 If a transfer is to benefit from the £250,000 threshold , the instrument must be executed before 20 August .
14 Anna thinks the safest thing is to hide from the stranger that she 's seen approaching her farm .
15 What not to do is to pan from the toddler back to the father , instead of cutting from one to the other .
16 The next step is to posit from a core vocabulary — words for water , milk , parts of the body and so on — the common language of Homo sapiens some 10,000 to 15,000 years ago .
17 If the thought of a lengthy moorland return is unappealing , an alternative way to get to the best of the escarpment in a shorter time is to start from a parking area near a prominent standing stone on the unclassified road to Trecastle .
18 And there , in order to understand this model , well let's put it this way , I think the easiest way to understand it is to start from the ego .
19 The idea is to learn from the experiences of different client groups , not just one particular client group .
20 The primary function of any kitchen ventilation canopy is to remove from the kitchen area the airborne effects of the cooking process , namely smoke , steam , contaminants , and as much heat as deemed effective .
21 The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them .
22 To employ Popper 's terminology , it is to move from the world of subjective knowledge to the world of objective knowledge .
23 The most important chairman ( of the municipality ) was a Jlulat from Tazarbu , that is to say from the category of people least involved in the Kufran disputes .
24 By contrast , a writer whose allegiances ultimately lie with the bourgeoisie would necessarily understand political developments from the outside , that is to say from the perspective of an oppressive class .
25 ‘ And the true order of going , or being led by another , to the things of love , is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty , using these as steps only … ’
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