Example sentences of "[to-vb] from the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chamber of commerce in Leeds is very positive about the future , as well it might be , and it was hard to infer from the report that the chamber of commerce felt that there was a need for a regional government , as the hon. Gentleman suggested . |
| 2 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |
| 3 | Yet for them , such a personality-type is compatible with their way of life , and even beneficial ( certainly , they never seem to suffer from the obesity that afflicts food addicts in societies with storable food-surpluses ) . |
| 4 | She brought us across the Irish Sea , trusting to God , but God chose her to suffer from the weather and she puked her guts into St George 's Channel , poor thing , and Francie crying because he closed our mother 's eyes , since there was no one else to do it . |
| 5 | Suddenly a wave of total panic swept across her like nausea and she had to resist the urge to dash from the car and hide herself among the trees . |
| 6 | The evaluators were convinced that the opportunities for schools to benefit from the expertise and efforts of the DCSLs were considerably enhanced by the project . |
| 7 | On a daily basis the objectives are to ‘ make sure that the investments or companies are progressing according to plan and are well placed to survive a prolonged recession ’ and , he adds , ‘ dare I say it , to benefit from the upturn when it comes ’ . |
| 8 | At such times the special needs teacher will be mediating the tasks , helping the pupils to benefit from the experience and at the same time observing their performance . |
| 9 | In some cases , such as defence or law and order , we all stand to benefit from the service and it would be difficult to envisage how it could be financed other than out of direct taxation . |
| 10 | Once we see that the relationship between a set of explanatory principles and the more specific analyses offered by social scientists must be a reciprocal one we are able to benefit from the fact that , just as social scientific practice is moulded by existing views of explanation , so those views can be refined and altered by the impact of practice . |
| 11 | Certainly it will not only be a gift for the elderly to receive a visit , but also we visitors will be able to benefit from the wisdom and life experience of the elderly members of the Church and society . |
| 12 | But it was not until recently that Birkenhead Abbeyfield Society heard from the Public Trustee Office , a government department , that it was among local charities to benefit from the legacy and would receive £120,000 . |
| 13 | Afterwards Jess admitted to feeling a little leg-weary over the last 20 minutes or so , but by then Willie Miller had sent on his other hot young property , Scott Booth , whose ability to leap from the bench and score drew Jess 's unstinted admiration . |
| 14 | Social change , therefore , was unlikely to come from the top and the peasantry were badly educated and impoverished smallholders . |
| 15 | The name of this parish is said to come from the legend that builders , on the orders of a local lord , tried to raise the church elsewhere eight times ; on each occasion finding it pulled down at night and the tools moved to the present site . |
| 16 | they 'd like , like them to come from the floor and not from another from a committee member says , yeah I sponsor Billy , and another committee member says I |
| 17 | ‘ I do not want the beauty to come from the material but from within myself , ’ he wrote later , taking direct responsibility for this process of redemption . |
| 18 | The seminal thinking on this problem is much more likely to come from the periphery than the centre . |
| 19 | This Germanic organization remains extremely vague in Formen and the reason seems to come from the paucity and dubiousness of Marx 's sources for the construction of this mode of production . |
| 20 | That is £17,000 and this money may well have to come from the sale or re-mortgage of her house , unless you can help . |
| 21 | Once a child is maturationally ready to toilet train the process usually only takes one or two weeks , but the teaching still has to come from the mother and she may be very uncertain about when to do it . |
| 22 | Another small club at Warkworth , its airfield right out in the country , is easier to find from the air than by road . |
| 23 | Few historians would now wish to dissent from the view that the vast majority of the laity of fifteenth-century England were deeply attached to the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic church , or to deny that that church exercised an unrivalled influence over the shaping of late medieval popular mentality . |
| 24 | Anna thinks the safest thing is to hide from the stranger that she 's seen approaching her farm . |
| 25 | Recently , the World Bank has been able to hide from the spotlight that has laid the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development bare before the public gaze . |
| 26 | After Gower won the toss and put them in , West Indies had a good first day as Haynes made a patient 84 and Richardson his second successive century ; 269 for 2 at the close reflected the lack of life that Botham and Thomas had been able to extract from the pitch and the catches that had gone . |
| 27 | When positive wax models are used they are extremely difficult to extract from the clay and they would have been destroyed in melting them out . |
| 28 | Is the Minister 's very carefully worded reply an attempt to distract from the fact that the proportion of the elderly in the population is increasing and will continue to do so ? |
| 29 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 30 | Mr. Wakeham : I agree with my Hon. Friend that most of his suggestions will form part of the solution though I think that the House would be reluctant to depart from the view that it should rise at 2.30 on Fridays . |