Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wanted to borrow money from the bank to , to buy anything there were two ways of getting money . |
| 2 | Soviet customs regulations were to be maintained in Lithuania ( the Lithuanian government on March 17 had announced plans to curb exports from the republic , including introduction of Lithuanian-run border checkpoints ) , and guards were to be posted around nuclear power stations and " other very important sites which are all-union property " . |
| 3 | A statement to input values from the console input device ( usually keyboard ) . |
| 4 | Opposition to the king 's favourite was so soon mobilized that by May 1308 Edward was compelled to banish Gaveston from the realm . |
| 5 | The local creamery refused to accept milk from the area as dust was floating in it . |
| 6 | A consensus seems to have emerged that some kinds of blue-green algae started to extract hydrogen from the planet 's richest resource , the oceans . |
| 7 | It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions . |
| 8 | First of all there was the paperwork : it was necessary to obtain permission from the head of the family , to have a certificate of baptism for each emigrant , to obtain exemption from military service for males , to have no criminal record and to prove how the voyage would be paid for . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Here , several firms or research groups team up to obtain money from the department for one project . |
| 11 | The only certain method of prevention is to exclude light from the water , and the employment of a light aluminium roof on a tank is becoming common practice . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A solicitor will generally be free to decide for himself whether or not to accept instructions from a client , though he must always bear in mind the statutory obligation not to discriminate against potential clients on the grounds of race , colour , sex etc ( see Chapter 3 ) and he must refuse to act or to continue to act in any of the following circumstances : ( 1 ) where his client seeks to insist on the solicitor conducting his case in a way which would involve some breach of law or professional regulation ; ( 2 ) where the client 's affairs are outside his professional competence ; ( 3 ) if he suspects that the instructions purporting to come from his client do not in fact represent the client 's wishes ; ( 4 ) where the solicitor is unable to obtain confirmation from the client of instructions received from a third person ; ( 5 ) where there is or is likely to be some conflict of interest involving the solicitor himself , his client , other clients ( present , past or prospective ) , or the firm ; ( 6 ) where the solicitor may be a material and not merely formal witness in any proceedings ; ( 7 ) where another solicitor has already received instructions which have not been formally withdrawn . |
| 14 | to obtain confirmation from the preparer of the advertisement and the issuer of the advertisement ( if other than the preparer ) that to the best of his knowledge and belief the facts contained in the advertisement are true and accurate and will remain so during the currency of the advertisement ; |
| 15 | It became obvious as soon as Annunziata handed round the soup tureen that Comfort was deliberately trying to exclude David from the conversation and show him how de trop he was . |
| 16 | Jobs which are designed to give the worker autonomy will produce the experience of responsibility , and designing in mechanisms to provide feedback from the job provides knowledge of the actual results of the work activities . |
| 17 | The implication of this is that context does not function to exclude candidates from the cohort . |
| 18 | Wheels and parts of the cars ' undercarriage were scattered along the track as rescue workers struggled to pull survivors from the wreckage of the train in the Amsterdam suburb of Hoofddorp . |
| 19 | The Clarks sued through their solicitor , and over a year later , after much bitter argument , agreed to accept £3,450 from the surveyor 's insurers . |
| 20 | Hence , the development of " Social Europe " by imposing high minimum employment standards , is crucial if large sections of labour are not to suffer losses from the creation of the SEM . |
| 21 | And going through on page sixty five in the main agenda this outlines the current plan to achieve registration for Harlow 's museums in order to achieve to achieve the a the a a and tangibility to grasp to obtain aid from the museum 's national bodies . |
| 22 | Since no firm of solicitors can ever afford to retain the services of any employee or partner whose conduct tends to reflect ill on the reputation of the practice , and since the circumstances may rarely be so clear cut as to secure withdrawal from the firm by consent , thorough consideration must be given at the outset to the conditions for expelling partners . |
| 23 | Edward began by attempting to exclude Stratford from the assembly , but failed in the face of support for the archbishop from the Earl of Arundel , Earl Warenne , and other lay magnates who shared their suspicion of those round the king . |
| 24 | To cross this frontier , they like the first terrestrial invertebrates had to solve two problems : first , how to move around out of water , and second , how to obtain oxygen from the air . |
| 25 | Asked to comment on the Independent 's report that Libyan terrorists had put the bomb aboard Flight 103 by means of an unaccompanied bag sent from Malta , Aviv himself thought it was yet another attempt to distract attention from the truth . |
| 26 | It arose after the victory of Tannenberg , as a deliberate attempt by the German General Staff to distract attention from the failure of the Schlieffen plan in the west , and to associate themselves with Hindenburg 's triumph . |
| 27 | At first glance , the association of holism with their strongly materialist brand of Marxism might seem to prejudice the discussion : the very distinctiveness of its explanatory categories might seem to distract attention from the matter in hand . |
| 28 | Her height served to distract attention from the power in her calves and biceps . |
| 29 | It is also necessary to obtain approval from the water authority to discharge the effluent of a septic tank , by means of land drains into the ground . |
| 30 | Now it was in decay ; we shifted foot-baths about on the landing to catch drips from the roof , which we could get no one to repair . |