Example sentences of "could [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have recently been in New Zealand and I think Scotland could benefit from the kind of facilities they have . |
| 32 | Darlington College of Technology could benefit from the extra investment . |
| 33 | And North-East companies could benefit from the buying bonanza , according to Mr Hamilton . |
| 34 | Voluntary tagging may also be adopted for sheep which could benefit from the positive identification of their flock of origin , such as pedigree animals or breeding females from farms operating under specific health schemes . |
| 35 | ‘ It had become necessary to dispel these doubts so that , with full trust restored , South Africa 's people could benefit from the technological development that has taken place as a result of this process . ’ |
| 36 | MOST of the money raised for disabled Courtaulds employee Chris Lumb , who sadly died before he could benefit from the appeal launched in his name , is going to help blind toddler Leannda Ward . |
| 37 | There were also welcome visits from members of the staff of Strathclyde University 's Law Faculty , delighted that their Library , as well as C.A. , could benefit from the generosity of the W.S. firm which had given important law books . |
| 38 | People could borrow from the social fund , he said , and get money that was interest-free , but money was taken from their income support immediately , even though that support was meant to be the lowest level of income on which one could cope . |
| 39 | Bank Rate was the rate at which discount houses could borrow from the Bank in order to meet any shortage of liquidity . |
| 40 | Delegates could choose from the whole range of subjects throughout but the Dance Section had such a wide variety of topics and practical workshops that it hard to find time to fit everything in . |
| 41 | A series of appalling disasters in the public services , notably the Kings Cross underground fire and the rail crashes at Clapham and elsewhere underlined the damage that could result from the public sector being run down . |
| 42 | A further cause could result from the exchange of gas in and out of the bladder . |
| 43 | These could result from the economic , social and political problems , " including ethnic rivalries and territorial disputes , which are faced by many countries in central and eastern Europe " . |
| 44 | English fishermen 's leaders gave warning that militant action could result from the failure of the council to aid the catchers . |
| 45 | As an anxious new father , Belinda 's partner , Jem , read everything he could find about Down 's syndrome because he wanted to know what he could expect from the future . |
| 46 | This much I could see from the outside when I went down to have a look at it . |
| 47 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 48 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |
| 49 | Martha could see from the humourless stretch of her grandmother 's mouth that she judged Mrs Joyce and her offspring an unwelcome addition to the neighbourhood . |
| 50 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 51 | Behind the house fields and woodland dropped gently away towards the sea coast at Lilstock , Kilve and East Quantoxhead , and it was this view which Dorothy and her brother could see from the tall sash-windows of their favourite parlour . |
| 52 | Most impressive of all to us children was the fact that the house had two staircases , the staircase we could see from the front door , and the back stairs , used by the servants . |
| 53 | I could see from the diagram how the back of the work should look , what I was not prepared for was how the front of the work could look . |
| 54 | She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew . |
| 55 | And the Royal Welch did sing in the rehearsal , it was a record of course , and they sang of what you could see from the hills above Jerusalem , and it was in the minor key and sad as the devil or death , and the green light flickered , and Dylan , short , bandy , prime , obese , and famous among the bars , screamed as I have never heard , but sometimes imagined a scream , and we were all appalled , our pencils silent above the crossword puzzles , and invisible centuries-gone atavistic hair rose on our backs . |
| 56 | I had to admit my first impression was not quite what I had expected : instead of bold cliffs and mountain peaks , all we could see from the heaving deck of the boat was a seemingly endless beach of black shingle fringed by white breakers . |
| 57 | He could see from the number of bells beside each door that they 'd nearly all been turned into flats now , or dentists ' surgeries , and some were in urgent need of renovation , but they still retained some of their former grandeur , or was it pretension ? |
| 58 | She could see from the screen displays how the systems were designed to function . |
| 59 | I had to see Helen , After all , she was just over that hill which I could see from the top windows of the Grand . |
| 60 | The man sitting opposite her looked shifty , but she could see from the set of his jaw that he 'd no intention of telling her his suspicions . |