Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] from [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter — the steppe and woodlands inhabited by Tatars , Altaians , Kirgiz , Buryats and Mongols — the Russians had to wage war against formidable enemies who were not only capable of putting up resistance to incursions into their territories , but also able to obtain support from the larger communities of Turkic-Mongol peoples to whom they were related . |
| 2 | Hence , the proactive approach will enable an acquiror to select targets from a larger population of companies . |
| 3 | A vote-maximizing political party therefore has an incentive to propose redistribution from the richer segment to the poorer majority . |
| 4 | The ability to monitor and to intervene stems from a further requirement of the Act that companies provide specified annual information relating to the conduct of their business . |
| 5 | By then Florey and Heatley had gone to America to seek aid from a richer country not yet involved in war . |
| 6 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |
| 7 | If the bad image of the pawnbroker kept would-be customers away , many of the small debtors would have been even more reluctant to seek relief from the grander money-lender whose role was not so much , it seems , to relieve the impoverished of misery as to maintain the well-off in their excesses . |
| 8 | The urge to scramble into the saddle and take my chance continues to triumph over an inclination to enjoy horses from a safer stance . |
| 9 | Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres . |