Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 2 | As most of their expansion had been in transport sectors , it was a natural step for them to try switching production from trucks to tanks . |
| 3 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 4 | They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience . |
| 5 | I believe that many visitors would like to have available a short paper about the early history to enable them to derive greater enjoyment from their stay and I hope those who want to know more will be stimulated to consult the Inventory . |
| 6 | Activity Book for pupils , with games and exercises to help them gain full benefit from the video |
| 7 | None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour . |
| 8 | They gain more fulfilment from the jobs and in the end , backed by a high level of innovation , they produce a better product . |
| 9 | Another group had landed at Rottingdean and marched inland towards Lewes ; on the way they met fierce resistance from an armed band led by another warlike monk , Prior John of St Pancras . |
| 10 | In Cuzco they met old acquaintances from Buenos Aires , from Santiago , from Quito . |
| 11 | Today they got full backing from the visiting Prison 's Minister . |
| 12 | and then er , they got some units from M F I , they 're beautiful |
| 13 | higher than mine , and they got those figures from a much wider survey based on all council returns . |
| 14 | That 's what H M I P did they got further information from British Coal they met er on Friday er with their colleagues at the National Rivers Authority and it 's from that greater understanding of the application that H M I P have now said that they are prepared to withdraw their objection subject to the imposition of the conditions at the N R A request . |
| 15 | She says that they lived some miles from London , but they could see the red glow in the sky and smell the smoke . ’ |
| 16 | They made 100 variations from this negative and then threw in No.101 ( which measures 1397 x 2743 mm ) and No.102 illustrated here . |
| 17 | They had to take many economic decisions in the course of each annual cycle , and according to their status and wealth they made different decisions from one another in various places and over the year . |
| 18 | Nor did they want equal non-protection from the law — they wanted censorship . |
| 19 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 20 | More radically , they want automatic subsidies from rich members for poor ones . |
| 21 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 22 | Lovins 's adversaries were both numerous and powerful ; and they drew some consolation from his tendency to write prose of baroque opacity , sometimes more than 50 per cent footnotes , and accessible only to the dogged . |
| 23 | As links the streets functioned in two directions : they provided rapid access from the railway stations at the city 's then periphery to the key points at the center ( government buildings , central markets , hospitals , business and entertainment districts ) , and in turn linked the central organs of administration and business ( fire department , riot police , ambulance services , department store deliveries ) with the focal points of the city 's various quarters . |
| 24 | They used daily data from May 1988 to March 1990 , and found a significant positive correlation between the returns on FOX index futures and the current and lagged returns on the UK stock market . |
| 25 | They encountered unexpected opposition from the Queen herself who had got used to ‘ her ’ carriages and objected to their being changed . |
| 26 | they involve less direction from the tutor . |
| 27 | They invited twenty-three artists from nine countries to participate in an artistic sub-theme park entitled ‘ Allocations : art for a natural and artificial environment ’ . |
| 28 | Different customers have different needs which implies they seek different benefits from products they buy . |
| 29 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |
| 30 | They would do so because they receive convergent input from cells at the lower levels of the system that represent the defining properties of that object . |