Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complicating factor is the reader 's motivation : the effort that children will make if they need to obtain something from a particular book or periodical . |
| 2 | The grid size can easily be increased or decreased at any stage during the design process , thus allowing you to create anything from a tiny motif to a large electronic or intarsia design that would cover a complete garment piece . |
| 3 | Redken would recommend a new permanent wave called TRUST which combines both acid and alkaline ingredients to create anything from a soft body wave to springy , resilient curls . |
| 4 | They had come to expect nothing from a disenfranchised people except violence and anarchy . |
| 5 | He is being wooed by three counter-arguments : first , that when it comes to big , company-wide computer systems , customers still prefer to buy everything from a single , proven supplier ; second , that mainframes will remain at the heart of many of tomorrow 's systems , in which a network of PCs will be served by a central processor ; and third , that IBM is moving away from being hardware-dominated to become , increasingly , a one-stop-shop for computer consultancy and services . |
| 6 | Output and display requirements dictate architectures which support high-resolution colour graphics , can display both RGB ( ‘ Red-Green-Blue' , the colour screen standard in which the three basic colours remain individually controllable ) and composite video information , and provide an audio capability able to handle anything from a feeble bleep to high fidelity stereo . |
| 7 | Each of these seems to derive something from the interruptable time of the television chronotope , and its consequently segmented narrative . |
| 8 | Celtic3 St Johnstone1 CELTIC overpowered St Johnstone and remain on course to salvage something from an indifferent season . |
| 9 | With projects that are more than ten years old you should give a lot of thought to the problems involved , and then decide to build something from the current issue of Everyday Electronics instead ! |
| 10 | And she would have little illusion about being able to save anything from the low wages she would receive from any of the available jobs . |
| 11 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 12 | There is now a ‘ hassles and uplifts ’ scale with which ambitious social psychologists try to quantify everything from the down value of a lost shoe to the up value of a birthday card from an old friend . |
| 13 | For to have anything from the public one must satisfy the public and no one individual . ’ |
| 14 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 15 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 16 | The Americans are also put out by the efforts of Russia 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , to rescue something from the apparent wreckage of the world 's peace efforts . |
| 17 | It is based on army issue shovels and although very compact could be used to dig anything from a small surface hole to a trench ! |