Example sentences of "could [verb] from the " in BNC.

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1 Contrasted in this way it seems improbable that madness and creativity could spring from the same source .
2 He had not been able to deal so skilfully with his own wife , however , that relationship needing more of himself than he could spare from the animals , and she had left him many years ago .
3 The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) is calling for a 40 per cent cut in North Sea fishing fleets in order to conserve fish stocks , particularly those of cod and haddock , which it warns could disappear from the area within five years if present catch rates continue .
4 ‘ Pugna pro patria ’ , ‘ Fight for your country ’ , was a call which Bishop Brinton could make from the pulpit in the 1370s .
5 He failed to show how from the other direction values could arise from the people and become incorporated in the state ideology .
6 The league programme had not been free from the upsets that could arise from the organizational confusion of most Edwardian football clubs .
7 In Italy integration was viewed as a counterbalance to the possible domestic instability that could arise from the presence of a large and hostile Communist Party .
8 And at the end of the day quite considerable potential changes could arise from the results that you might deduce .
9 Marketing activity is being targeted on central and eastern Europe and the Company considering setting up an office in Seoul to take advantage of new business opportunities which could arise from the signing of a bilateral agreement between the UK and Korean Governments .
10 A second difficulty could arise from the Labour Party rule ( again dating from 1981 ) that a Leader in office as Prime Minister can be challenged for the Leadership at a Party conference if an election is requested by a majority of the conference on a card vote .
11 Either the debtor or the creditor could appeal from the decision of the court to a single-judge Court of Appeal which gave a final decision .
12 There is still a possibility the club could resign from the Northern League before Tuesday 's deadline .
13 The first contract contemplated the creation of sub-sales — so that the seller could predict from the outset that in the event of non-delivery the buyer might suffer loss in connection with sub-sales .
14 Ledeen always thought it self-evident that America should re-open contacts with Iran ; it could profit from the political fissures there , and could perhaps exploit the chaos that would undoubtedly follow the end of the Ayatollah 's rule .
15 The Hadow Report of 1926 , and its successor the Spens Report of 1938 , had envisaged that not all children would want or could profit from the kind of schooling which was available in Cardiff in the 1930s or in Thame in the 1890s , and that different kinds of pupils deserved not only various curricula but also distinctive types of school .
16 Some schools in affluent industrial districts could profit from the scheme while those in rural areas with few companies nearby would have little chance of extra support .
17 Schönhuber manoeuvred around the ‘ old Nazi ’ tag , while making plain that not only was he proud to have been in the Waffen SS , but that there was indeed something worthwhile that Germans could salvage from the Nazi era .
18 It was the only crumb of comfort he could salvage from the ordeal .
19 But there are many more thousands who could benefit from the club .
20 The British acceptance of the US position in most respects at Bermuda reflected both its final abandonment of internationalization , and the realization that Britain , too , could benefit from the fifth freedom .
21 Some Lebanese argue that Gen Aoun 's Syrian adversaries could benefit from the assassination .
22 Some Lebanese argue that Gen Aoun 's Syrian adversaries could benefit from the assassination .
23 There was also an acceptance , as the implications were worked out later in the paper , that Terminal courses with ‘ a good deal of teaching at quite an elementary level ’ were ‘ a most important part ’ of the WEA 's work ; that university graduates , who usually had a narrow academic education , could benefit from the breadth of learning offered by the WEA quite as much as manual workers ; that courses in literature and the arts were clearly a valid part of the WEA 's total provision because they attracted new members , taught the processes of serious study and by enriching lives helped ‘ in raising the quality of the public which has the power of judgement upon those set in authority over it ’ .
24 The plinth at the base was used as an altar , Mass being celebrated in the open so that people too afraid to move from their houses could benefit from the service .
25 The idea is among those that have been taken over successfully into the theory of evolution by John Maynard Smith , who has shown why the evolutionarily stable strategy in a given situation may not be the strategy that would bring most benefit to every individual — the catch being that the only way all individuals could benefit from the best possible strategy , is for all to agree to pursue that strategy .
26 The Commission , however , raised the possibility that importers ( e.g. an auctioneer ) could benefit from the temporary importation arrangements : VAT would be payable only if the item were sold , and it would be deductible .
27 In any case fear of the spread of communism reinforced the belief that Asia , too , could benefit from the treasure that was being poured into Europe by way of Marshall Aid and , as Wolf concludes : ‘ It is fair to say that the desire to avoid ‘ another China ’ no less than the desire of the Administration to avoid further Congressional attacks on its Asian policy , determined the timing of US aid to Southern Asia . ’
28 Although A-T is rare , potentially millions of other people could benefit from the research .
29 It showed how local government could benefit from the efficiency of a larger authority while also being responsive to local communities in delivering its services .
30 UNCTAD 's annual report on the least developed countries ( LDCs ) , issued on Feb. 11 , said that these countries could benefit from the new international situation and especially from the settlement of long-standing conflicts , which would permit resources to be diverted from military purposes and the care of refugees to improve economic prospects .
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