Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [noun sg] from the " in BNC.

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1 The bank then undertakes to collect payment from the buyer once the debt falls due for payment .
2 Instead , the government intends to resist pressure from the unions for a freeze , and separate suggestions for a generalised rationing system .
3 No bush grows to give shelter from the scouring wind ; no speck of green relieves the black surface of the empty ash plains .
4 At the same time Gregory 's emphasis on the civil wars tends to divert attention from the very real achievements made by the Merovingians in keeping the peace .
5 The scheme , for which Greece has applied for Ecu80 million in funding from the EC , aims to divert water from the Acheloos river to irrigate agricultural land on the Plain of Thessaly .
6 But he hopes to attract interest from the casual viewer through what he calls ‘ guerrilla raids on the schedules ’ .
7 Gd-DTPA enhancement of tumour helps to distinguish tumour from the normal spinal cord and a benign syrinx .
8 So when , for example , Pooh goes to get honey from the cupboard where he believes it is , he need n't be aware of having that belief .
9 A simple but effective example of its very artificiality occurs in Marnie ( 1964 ) when , towards the end , Marnie ( Tippi Hedren ) tries to steal money from the Rutland and Co. safe ; her simultaneous attraction and repulsion is shown by rapid zooms in and out , brief and repeated .
10 On the other hand , all three decisions confirm that an employee would be rashly optimistic if he expects to gain compensation from the mere fact the employer is selling or otherwise exploiting the patented invention with a significant measure of success .
11 While China insists that its open-door policy remains intact and continues to encourage investment from the West , it has revived a vocabulary of ideological struggle almost identical to that used in East Germany .
12 The threat came from proposals for a barrage across the lough 's narrows to generate electricity from the tide 's ebb and flow .
13 Another possibility is that the IP 3 R functions to integrate information from the multiple inputs received by this dendritic tree .
14 A very busy girl comes to fetch water from the well .
15 As we said earlier on , he had been they had been travelling through and Jesus had se settled down there for a while and sent his disciples into a , th a nearby town across the frontier , er to get some food and some provisions , er to last them for the remainder of their journey and Jesus is just sitting there by this well , he 's tired , he 's thirsty , weary and hungry , just waiting there and then this lady comes to draw water from the well .
16 Larner set the figure at 10 per cent , and in his later study , with the process of dispersal having become even more marked , Herman acknowledged that a holding of 5 per cent or more ‘ begins to approach non-negligibility from the standpoint of corporate power ’ .
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