Example sentences of "of [noun] [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water can be lost through dissociation by solar uv radiation and the subsequent loss of hydrogen to space from the exosphere . |
| 2 | EC agricultural production continued to grow despite the tendency of workers to move from the land to the industrial and service sectors . |
| 3 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 4 | John Roberts , the company 's chief executive , said he expected ‘ tens of thousands ’ of customers to benefit from the new tariff , which is aimed predominantly at low income families . |
| 5 | Finally I 'll just say this to him , I agree that we have a great deal of things to learn from the United States , not in the way he suggests but it is a fact that er over the economic cycle of O E C D between seventy nine and eighty nine er America the United States saw growth of twenty six percent which created eighteen and half million jobs in their free enterprise economy . |
| 6 | Certainly , the number of items to come from the field so far are considerable in view of the lack of occupation . |
| 7 | As I crouched in the slit trench in the semi-darkness I could hear the odd British shell that had been intended for the Germans but had dropped short in the orchard explode with a terrific roar close at hand , causing a shower of dirt to fall from the roof of the trench . |
| 8 | To leave it to a free vote of the House might be taken as an indication that the Government had not made up its mind and would be an invitation to the House of Lords to delete from the Bill the clause abolishing the death penalty . |
| 9 | But I well remember the shock of amazement to hear from the excavator that the trench dug to hold the vertical posts of the building , in the typical military method , was of one period and the vertical posts of another . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly influential Americans again showed impatience at the apparent inability of Britain to recover from the war . |
| 11 | The freedom of the Secretary of State to depart from the recommendations of the National Curriculum Council ( to which proposals on attainment targets and programmes of study must be referred ) , as in effect happened in the case of the history curriculum , stands in marked contrast to the restrictions binding teachers under the National Curriculum . |
| 12 | One of the few signs of encouragement to emerge from the reported cases considered here is that some current employee inventors can not easily be ‘ bought off ’ by employers anxious to avoid compensation claims . |
| 13 | A man in a spotless white coat offered me little pieces of cheese to taste from the end of a special curved knife . |
| 14 | The other set of tradesmen to benefit from the Act were the jobbing printers , for it was they — rather than an alternative central source — who provided the blank affidavits . |
| 15 | The time has passed quickly and it is now getting dusk , the mosquitoes have arrived and the German mortaring of the orchard has started , the first salvo exploding a short distance away causing pieces of earth to fall from the logs covering the roof of the trench , the earth and other bits of debris falling onto the now empty mess-tins . |
| 16 | If this is accepted , it is of value to move from the narrow base of this article to consider whether it is so in other areas . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , unfilled vacancies were the highest for a year , a further indication that ‘ we are in the right kind of atmosphere to benefit from the recovery ’ . |