Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you use a shell to hide from the C : > prompt or as a useful tool , you will probably want to customise it to suit your system and personal preferences . |
| 2 | However , the latter have a part to play from the period of nursery rhymes and finger and other basic-activity games . |
| 3 | In considering the right of the individual to know the law by simply looking at legislation , it is a fallacy to start from the position that all legislation is available in a readily understandable form in any event : the very large number of statutory instruments made every year are not available in an indexed form for well over a year after they have been passed . |
| 4 | It is always a privilege to speak from the Opposition Dispatch Box , especially towards the end of a Third Reading debate . |
| 5 | AS FOR the government 's negotiating strategy , Harkabi forecast that nothing would scare the ‘ extremists ’ like a readiness to talk from the other side . |
| 6 | He had , he claimed , been superseded in a promotion which he thought he had a right to expect from the Master of the Horse . |
| 7 | The service standards could have been just circulated internally , but making them public meant everyone would know what level of service they had a right to expect from the police . |
| 8 | You click on to the icons with a mouse to go from the word processor to a spreadsheet or to send a fax . |
| 9 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ It is a nonsense to measure from the time of referral to the time of operation because not all out-patients require operations . ’ |
| 10 | Ken Gilbert , area manager Water & Ventilation was challenged by a friend to walk from the Irish Sea to the North Sea last winter . |
| 11 | Yoga classes are often advertised as offering people the opportunity to get rid of the stresses and strains of everyday living , a chance to escape from the cares of the material world . |
| 12 | Food took on better flavour , meals became enjoyable instead of a chore , ’ she says , ‘ If I break the diet , I know I have n't failed , but have a chance to learn from the experience . |
| 13 | it gives people a chance to come from the surrounding area , have a beer , relax , and still look for a job |
| 14 | There was some good news , too : the harvest had been the best for over thirty years , and after much anxious waiting there was a victory to celebrate from the war front — Nelson had trounced the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile . |
| 15 | It should have been a relief to escape from the train at Holborn but as she crossed the platform and began to mount the stairs a feeling of confusion and disorientation took hold of her . |
| 16 | He now realized that specialization for a particular way of life was an advantage even in a stable environment , because it allowed a species to escape from the pressure of rivals seeking to exploit the same resource . |
| 17 | For fourteen years she had delivered the Leader 's speech on the last afternoon of the conference ; she was too old a hand to speak from the floor . |
| 18 | ‘ It costs $150–200 a ton to collect from the kerbside and sort household refuse . |
| 19 | Thus it would be perfectly possible for a sexist to argue from the very findings reported in this chapter that women make poor leaders and high-pressure salespersons because of their lack of assertiveness , whereas they make good carers ( nurses , home helps and so on ) because of their sensitivity to the needs of other people in conversation . |
| 20 | The group to jump , known as a stick , hooked up and shuffled in a line to exit from the side door . |
| 21 | The adoption by the BCP congress of a moderate reformist manifesto did not dissuade members of a BCP faction calling itself the Alternative Socialist Organization ( ASO — the most radical of several pro-reform factions which had emerged in the party in January ) from carrying out a threat to split from the BCP and form a new social democratic party . |
| 22 | In two closely argued and provocative essays Alfred Rieber claimed that the object of the emancipation was not even to benefit the gentry ( let alone the peasantry ) , but rather to put the principal institutions of the autocracy , the treasury and the army , in a position to recover from the ravages of the Crimean War . |
| 23 | On the other hand , other regions may well be in a position to benefit from the discovery of natural resource stocks such as oil and gas . |
| 24 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 25 | They only had to drop a wizened bean over their shoulders for a plant to spurt from the ground and rain pods at them . |
| 26 | Whatever happens on Thursday , Lowther has a bolthole to escape from the electioneering . |
| 27 | The creation of the Comintern gave them an opportunity to exclude from the Labour Party , for the first time , Marxists who wished to join it . |
| 28 | Cattle stealing provided certain groups in rural areas with an opportunity to benefit from the economic changes along the coast and in the central highlands , but it did not long survive as an organized business once a district was penetrated deeply by plantations . |
| 29 | Four Cabinet Ministers , on the advice of the Attorney-General , signed declarations in an attempt to keep from the court documents which would have cleared the men . |
| 30 | The theory of the global system based on transnational practices is an attempt to escape from the limitations of state-centrism . |