Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] from [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | to know story from life of friend that is authentic and clearly related to the goal of the session . |
| 2 | He gathered like-minded officers round him , and dispatched each in turn to run the service for which he seemed fit : N. R. Crockatt , whose prowess he had admired at Rugby , to secure intelligence from prisoners of war ; E. R. Coombe to form the inter-services security board , which handled code-names and deception as well as security ; ( Sir ) Gerald Templer [ q.v. ] |
| 3 | Dealers , sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms , would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms . |
| 4 | The newspaper said Reagan officials , and to a lesser extent officials from the administrations of Jimmy Carter and George Bush , may have covered up evidence of abuses to win approval from Congress of $6 billion ( £4 billion ) in aid . |
| 5 | The trial had been remarkable , since the court had visited a prison in Italy in order to hear evidence from members of the BR , who were in custody there . |
| 6 | It should however be noted that while profit maximization is not regarded as a goal , it is accepted in managerial theories that there is a profits constraint , either because a minimum level of profitability is a condition of survival of the enterprise , or to necessary to protect management from loss of office through take-over . |
| 7 | Education authorities may have the resources to carry out these studies themselves ; others may wish to commission research from institutions of higher education or commercial practices . |
| 8 | One of the major drawbacks is that no good bowel contrast agent is commercially available and it is therefore frequently difficult to distinguish tumour from loops of bowel . |
| 9 | The argument against commodity bundling is that by offering a bundle of goods at a lower price than the sum of the prices for the components of the bundle the supplier is able to prevent competition from producers of individual goods within the bundle . |