Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [noun] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthew states from the outset that the purpose of this child will be to offer salvation from sin or , in other words , bring people back to God . |
| 2 | One of the main aims of all financial institutions , including banks , is to channel funds from surplus to deficit units in an economy . |
| 3 | The error here is to isolate doubt from faith and unbelief and consider it strictly by itself as a mere mechanism of human knowing . |
| 4 | One important corollary of the decision that obscene material must have more serious effects than arousing feelings of revulsion is the doctrine that material which in fact shocks and disgusts may not be obscene , because its effect is to discourage readers from indulgence in the immorality so unseductively portrayed . |
| 5 | ‘ Our aim is to develop gymnasts from grass roots to top level , paying particular attention to coaching standards , setting the rules and standards for competitions and criteria for team selection . ’ |
| 6 | Our aim is to transport goods from site to site so that requirements are fulfilled from the stocks available at other sites . |
| 7 | But soon this force also was obliged to retreat and thus came within the grasp of a new figure , General Joseph Galliéni , the recently appointed Military Governor of the French capital and the man who , above all , was to save France from conquest . |
| 8 | ‘ Not long ago , we thought the important thing was to remove industry from state control , not ownership , ’ says Mr Marton Tardos of the Free Democrats , Hungary 's free-market liberal party . |
| 9 | This was to prevent sparks from train wheels and engines reaching the gunpowder stores . |