Example sentences of "[to-vb] money from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This country was bankrupt , and had to borrow money from the United States of America to keep going , and er , Russia had just had a revolution and was still in chaos .
2 If you wanted to borrow money from the bank to , to buy anything there were two ways of getting money .
3 The violence of the language used by the chronicler of St Albans shows his hatred of the Forest system , which was so often used to extort money from the monasteries .
4 Dobson argues convincingly that as the admission of freemen was controlled by the borough authorities , it is more probably that the increased number of admissions was prompted by their desire to spread the load of civic obligations , and to secure money from the payments made on entry to assist shaky borough finances .
5 It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions .
6 Here , several firms or research groups team up to obtain money from the department for one project .
7 Apparently it was all right to receive money from the Treasury in neat health authority allocations , but not for cheques or , worse still , cash to appear over the hospital counter .
8 The personality of Arthur Scargill , with his apparent willingness to receive money from the terrorist regime of Colonel Qadaffi 's Libya and his condoning of violence , alienated many , including the leader of the Labour Party , Neil Kinnock .
9 CTC is one of six drama companies in the region to receive money from the Drama Production Fund .
10 A simple but effective example of its very artificiality occurs in Marnie ( 1964 ) when , towards the end , Marnie ( Tippi Hedren ) tries to steal money from the Rutland and Co. safe ; her simultaneous attraction and repulsion is shown by rapid zooms in and out , brief and repeated .
11 It is one thing to draw money from the public in terms of council tax and it 's another thing to spend it in the way you intend to do it .
12 If art is an attempt to impose structure and meaning onto this chaos , there is no artefact more deliberately structured than the contemporary Hollywood movie , designed to prise money from the masses and reasssure them that good guys do n't necessarily finish last .
13 Efforts in earlier years to raise money from the City had proved fruitless .
14 They will then have to get money from the dole or the Benefits Agency , which will cost taxpayers a great deal more on top of the £25 billion that the state is already paying out for the unemployed .
15 Even to get money from the bank , you did n't have to leave your car .
16 So , ’ concluded Owen , ‘ I have to transfer money from the Camel Watering Account . ’
17 That can mean only that the common agricultural policy is to be reformed in such a way as to take money from the United Kingdom and give it for cohesion to countries outside .
18 IF I WAS GOING TO take money from the public for the privilege of sampling my cooking , I would do it in a pub .
19 She says she does n't really want to earn money from the revelations but simply wants to set the story of the Yorks ' marriage straight .
20 I 'm afraid I do n't regard being unable to make money from the event as a reasonable excuse . ’
21 I 'm afraid I do n't regard being unable to make money from the event as a reasonable excuse . ’
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