Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , who in their right mind would want to jump from a great height with elastic tied round their ankles ? |
| 2 | The schools concerned will ideally seek to educate from an early age with a view to integrating the child into the normal educational system at the earliest opportunity . |
| 3 | This will certainly work transferring from a four to five millimetre machine to a nine millimetre machine , but some chunkies are not nine millimetres , so you will have to check your make of machine . |
| 4 | We may one day achieve a position where a region may elect to disaffiliate from a dominant state , and become a European region without feeling it encumbent upon itself to apply for membership of the United Nations . |
| 5 | Mr Baker strongly criticised a call from Mr Ashdown for up to 4.5 million Hong Kong Chinese who might want to flee from a Communist regime after 1997 to be given the right to come to Britain . |
| 6 | If so , any school or group of schools in consultation with the College and the leader of the in-service team may decide to depart from a particular syllabus or portions of it and develop in its place new material which after being tried out and improved upon may be passed on to other schools and colleges for use on a wider scale with the approval of the Ministry . |
| 7 | If you do decide to buy from a private bazaar you will be expected to haggle . |
| 8 | Even mankind might have developed from a different species . |
| 9 | Those three operations then are the measure of modern medical practice : cancers which might have developed from an enlarged prostate , some rogue polyps and a spinal tumour , any one of which could have proved fatal , were all pre-empted by discovery and cure ; and I can not be other than deeply grateful for this additional lease of life . |
| 10 | The coins were found in a fairly straight line , indicating that they may have fallen from a torn purse . |
| 11 | Secure in your status at work , becoming a parent may cause confusion — a woman may have to adjust from a professional role to a maternal one , where her own needs become relegated ; a father may have to adjust to there being a new small person in the family who makes his role seem less significant . |
| 12 | 6d. , less than she could have expected from a modern royalty . |
| 13 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 14 | You do risk crackles and pops , but many will have come from a good home — and you can always get them washed . |
| 15 | The material with which a major museum has to deal , both within its own collections and on offer to it , will have come from a wide variety of sources . |
| 16 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 17 | All the same , the feather in his pocket could hardly have come from an imaginary swan . |
| 18 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 19 | Deakin was a striker who found the net regularly and the evidence suggests that , had he been at a bigger club , he would have benefited from a better service and become a prolific scorer . |
| 20 | Detective Constable Potter would have benefited from a similar facility in the office , but his bulk was the subject of severe official disapproval and there was a parallel concern for his health and fitness . |
| 21 | Finally , if the imbalance between Labour and Tory tabloids had been eliminated — so that equal numbers read Tory and Labour tabloids , then Labour would still have benefited from a 1 per cent swing . |
| 22 | If all the persistent readers of Tory tabloids had behaved like those who read Labour tabloids , Labour would have benefited from a 3 per cent swing ( compared to the actual election result ) . |
| 23 | If tabloids had not existed , and all those who read Labour and Tory tabloids had behaved like those who read no paper regularly ( and depended exclusively on television for their news ) , then Labour would still have benefited from a 2 per cent swing . |
| 24 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 25 | The diversity and volume of silver bearing his mark is far greater than can have emerged from a single workshop and it has been generally acknowledged , after a century dominated by the concept of the maker 's mark , that De Lamerie , in common with many other goldsmiths registering marks at Goldsmiths ' Hall , not only fulfilled orders with other goldsmiths ' wares but also subcontracted orders to a range of London workshops , although striking the finished wares with his own punch . |
| 26 | He proved his stamina when bolting up at Newbury , but I just prefer TOP SPIN , who would have benefitted from a stronger gallop when chasing home Dare To Dream in a decent race at Lingfield . |
| 27 | He was not prepared , however , to involve himself in the European war which would have resulted from a substantial direct intervention in Turkish affairs . |
| 28 | The Macleod Report had specifically recommended that the Party should attempt to recruit from a wider class basis . |
| 29 | Molluscs may have evolved from a flatworm-like ancestor independently of the annelids , but molecular evidence supports the possibility of an annelid link . |
| 30 | Multimedia will have evolved from a technological issue into a metaphysical one . |