Example sentences of "be [to-vb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note also that the fewer units you have the less likely you are to suffer from animosity . |
| 2 | They are to come from Grove Farm , just as you recommended , 12 Rhode Islands and 6 pullets . |
| 3 | ‘ T is a rare pity thar ai n't no Brownies now in t' dale to do good turns to housewives , with all t' jobs there are to do from morn till night . ’ |
| 4 | He cautions against assuming that the only ways to implement effective reform are to start from scratch ( as with McMaster 's course , utilising problem based learning in small groups ) or to adopt wholesale change as at Harvard . |
| 5 | The tricky part will be to squeeze from service industries alone the entire 4% of annual productivity increases that the government wants for the economy as a whole . |
| 6 | If we 're vegetarian another possible act of penance would be to abstain from alcohol or cigarettes . |
| 7 | With twenty five we 're likely to die falling off a ladder than you are to die from AIDS . |
| 8 | But I can remember once when I was at the school Mrs was our music teacher and we were to go from doh to far , you know doh to far , and they used to s , she used to say listen to Mabel , Mabel 's the only one one of you that can go from doh to far . |
| 9 | The Heartbreakers were to fall from grace with violent rapidity towards the end of 1977 , only to re-emerge as cult heroes in 1984 . |
| 10 | If we were to move from standstill to cutbacks , we would expect to see further changes in behaviour . |
| 11 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 12 | One of the more commonly used methods of sales forecasting is to obtain from salesforce personnel and sales managers their combined view of sales to be expected during the forecast period . |
| 13 | Indeed it is used , in 26 of its 27 occurrences , literally ; in the other case , " The highway of the upright is to depart from evil " ( Prov 16.17 ) , we have the impression that the metaphor is freshly minted for the occasion , and there can be little question that is typically a literal road . |
| 14 | To shrink from examining this broad historical and cultural reference system is to shrink from reality . |
| 15 | The easy course , in fact , in a life of ‘ self-sufficiency ’ is to drift from day to day , working hard but always responding to circumstances ; on a subsistence holding like ours , there is always somewhere to be weeded ; something to be mended or maintained . |
| 16 | At the same time , one introduces the idea of thermal energy , heat , and in many situations the requirement is in fact is to start from energy in one form , such as heat from burning oil , to satisfy a requirement for energy in another form , in other words mechanical energy — the turning of a shaft — so somewhere there has to be a device which converts the heat energy into mechanical energy . |
| 17 | A horse , being a herd animal , is naturally suspicious and his first instinct is to run from danger . |
| 18 | The aim is to learn from experience gained in the demonstration districts and regions and to disseminate the lessons throughout the NHS . |
| 19 | If your computer supports graphics , and most do , the first thing to do is to change from text mode ( the mode that DOS sets up for you ) into graphics mode . |
| 20 | I mean you , the , the more you argue the south is a viable economic system , the less there is to gain from land reform . |
| 21 | What I did was to teeter from side to side like a tall mast on a small ship in a heavy sea . |
| 22 | Faced for the second time with the collapse of Balliol 's rule , Edward once again mobilized an army , this time for a winter campaign which proved unpopular with the troops and which was abandoned under pressure from Philip VI to conclude a truce , which was to last from Easter to midsummer 1335 . |
| 23 | The only way to design tastefully was to start from scratch , he had said . |
| 24 | His determination to impress Joan , to win her , made him even more tongue-tied ; his usual conversational gambit was to shift from foot to foot and laugh a great deal . |