Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] from [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps someone from Midland can explain how they hope to attract accounts from youngsters in their first jobs who have not passed their driving test and have never had a passport . |
| 2 | Protracted bargaining , Williamson argues , is less likely for three reasons : people feel part of a unified organization , and so are less inclined to argue ; management has the right to demand information from workers in the organization , and therefore can restrict opportunism ; and , ultimately , management can use its authority to guillotine any dispute that threatens to be prolonged . |
| 3 | There will be cases where it will be necessary to obtain reports from consultants in different areas of expertise . |
| 4 | The roots of the trade and transit dispute lay in the Nepalese decision to purchase weaponry from China in 1988 , a move which seriously offended India 's security perceptions . |
| 5 | This scabious was the first one to reach Britain from Italy in the early seventeenth century , and was known as ‘ The Mournful Widow ’ . |
| 6 | One important corollary of the decision that obscene material must have more serious effects than arousing feelings of revulsion is the doctrine that material which in fact shocks and disgusts may not be obscene , because its effect is to discourage readers from indulgence in the immorality so unseductively portrayed . |
| 7 | The authority of government was still exercised more directly through the law courts than in later centuries , and the authority of the Lords of Trade was underlined when they received the power to hear appeals from courts in the colonies . |
| 8 | Nor is there any power for them either to require details from people in order to keep a register or to require people to continue to notify them of changes in any register . |
| 9 | The Vlieger Op range from Holland uses colour to identify sizes from 5.85mm in blue to 21.8mm in orange , many at constant wall thickness and at 2mm stages so that they are able to fit inside each other . |
| 10 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 11 | Pre-colonial Africa did not lack entrepreneurs who managed trading companies , in some cases stretching well beyond contemporary national frontiers , and which had the capacity to invest profits from trade in production . |
| 12 | Environmentalists have been demonstrating against plans to dump waste from Germany in Gloucestershire . |
| 13 | In short , wage inflation operates not only to divert resources from investment in the country 's manufacturing capacity but also to make borrowing and exporting more and more difficult . |
| 14 | They will now have to license Unix from Novell in order to compete against them . |
| 15 | In the searing Saudi heat the steel plates in the boots , designed to protect soldiers from stakes in the jungle , heated up like a blacksmith 's anvil . |
| 16 | None of these articles referred to the activities of the Parents ' Rights Group , to the joblessness and homelessness that had caused lesbians and gays to seek support from councils in the first place , to the findings of the Gay Teenage Group survey about the intimidation and isolation of lesbian and gay teenagers in state schools , to the menace of fundamentalism — or to any other feature of our oppression . |
| 17 | In this capacity , he attended meetings around the country to organize opposition to American attempts to remove Aoun from office in favour of a new Syrian-backed president , and later that month conferred in New York with Dr Muhamad Mugraby , Aoun 's envoy to the United Nations , and the consul general for Lebanon , Victor Bitar . |
| 18 | The ability of enterprises to transfer investment from countries in which the regulatory environment threatens to become uncongenial , and the damage to international competitiveness that will result if domestic industry is subject to a more stringent regulatory regime than rivals abroad , are liable to circumscribe severely the capacity of national governments to establish an appropriate control framework . |
| 19 | The line was built in 1902 , mainly to convey lead from mines in the valley . |
| 20 | Western firms which have chosen to supply Slovakia from subsidiaries in Prague are facing the additional burden of near chaos at the Czech-Slovak border , with guards and officials struggling to understand and implement new import regulations in the context of highly ‘ dynamic ’ bilateral relations . |
| 21 | These salt ways certainly seem to have been used to transport salt from Droitwich in late-Saxon times and even later , but there can be little doubt that they were in existence long before then . |
| 22 | Where George Eliot tends simply to employ terms from painting in the description of her great houses , Henry James , for whom they have retreated a stage further , actually presents them in the two dimensions of paint . |
| 23 | I , I think that we , it 's really like taking chocolate from the mouths of babies , to take food from people in Eastern Europe who are rather desperate . |
| 24 | A discovery order appointing a commissioner to take depositions from witnesses in Germany was quashed . |
| 25 | Ramsey Abbey , for instance , paid a tribute of four thousand eels a year , during Lent , for the right to take stone from Barnack in the eleventh century . |
| 26 | Another effect of ACE was to take jobs from others in full-time employment because , for the above reasons , employers naturally turned to ACE if they could get away with it . |
| 27 | Nor did they know of the old Swedish experiments attempting to make helium from hydrogen in the laboratory . |
| 28 | Teachers have made links that have enabled them to write entire modules for GCSE and to involve people from industry in the classroom . |
| 29 | The " explanatory survey " , as its name implies , is concerned to gain information from respondents in order to test some theoretical explanation and represents the full-blown expression of variable analysis in the survey tradition . |
| 30 | Much of what has been deduced about the institutionalized authority held by bishops in the late fifth and early sixth century , over and above their canonical jurisdiction , depends on episcopal epitaphs : it is not easy to distinguish fact from topos in such documents . |