Example sentences of "they [vb base] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 2 | There also needs to be a plan for evaluating the project and the librarian and the teacher should discuss the evaluation of the pupils ' ability to use the microcomputer ( technical skills ) and their ability to make use of the information they gain from the microcomputer ( information skills ) . |
| 3 | ‘ People who do this sort of thing should not only lose their jobs but have any money they make from the deal confiscated , ’ she said . |
| 4 | They suffer from the drawback that warping can leave open gaps in the cladding ( waney-edged boards are particularly prone to this because of the way they are sawn ) , and so they tend to be used more on out-buildings than on house exteriors , except as feature panels . |
| 5 | Boys who feel backward grow backward , even when they are not , for they suffer from the illusion that by nature they can not solve the problems set to them . |
| 6 | There are new flat roof systems about which are supposed to be better , but they suffer from the same inherent disadvantages as their earlier counterparts . |
| 7 | Unfortunately they suffer from the main drawback of such elite forces : such exceptional warriors are rare . |
| 8 | Although it is possible to use such languages as problem-solving ‘ tools ’ , they suffer from the limitation that considerable expertise is needed to use them freely and effectively . |
| 9 | They borrow from the banks for as little as a few hours ' notice of recall by the banks ( money at call ) , and lend to the government , local authorities and firms for typically three months ( bills of exchange ) . |
| 10 | They borrow from the banks at call and short notice . |
| 11 | ‘ All they want from the wrecked car is the log book , which they can transfer to the stolen car , ’ says Mr Sloan . |
| 12 | Castella offers a different brand of joke-hero : the ingenious angler who beats the rest by treating the fish to Des O'Connor on a submerged stereo system , until they leap from the water to escape the torture . |
| 13 | However as Levi points out , different official agencies use these powers in a manner which is related to the level of tolerance they expect from the media and politicians . |
| 14 | They descend from the rectum to the internal anal sphincter and do not use the classical neurotransmitter substances , acetylcholine and noradrenaline . |
| 15 | The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote . |
| 16 | The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote . |
| 17 | They pinch most of what they say from the student press in America and throw in a few tags from Colonel Ojukwu . |
| 18 | Their application is a matter of skill and timing and this is reflected in the attention they receive from the refereeing panel . |
| 19 | This they frequently do , eating into , and more often devouring , the commissions they receive from the issuer . |
| 20 | We will end the present Government 's policy of clawing back from local authorities amounts equivalent to those they receive from the European Community 's regional development fund . |
| 21 | Although the elderly do not have to pay income tax on the value of a house which they own and occupy , if they let any Part of it , furnished or unfurnished , the income they receive from the letting must be included in their tax return . |
| 22 | Of these , 65% were satisfied with the overall service they receive from the Revenue , around 20% had no strong feeling either way and one in 10 were dissatisfied with the service they received . |
| 23 | The Piaroa recognize marriage exchange as an exceedingly dangerous principle to act upon , a lesson they receive from the events of the mythic past which was a time when each marriage alliance between strangers carried in its wake a deadly competition for the poisonous cultural capabilities of predation . |
| 24 | Consumers equate the gross price to the value of the marginal benefit they receive from the last film , but producers equate the marginal cost of films to the lower net-of-tax price of films . |
| 25 | that they receive from the rest of the taxpayers . |
| 26 | Under the present regime , where differential pricing is forbidden , big tied agents like the Halifax , Nationwide and Leeds Permanent — taking advantage of the fact that they are powerful distribution channels with ‘ hot client bases ’ — have pushed up the commissions they receive from the life offices to which they are tied to huge levels . |
| 27 | But none of the regional clubs will quantify how much they earn from the lucrative Clubcall telephone commentaries . |
| 28 | They range from the UK equivalent of plea bargaining to the curiosity that while Boesky , a confessed criminal , can arrange special deals with the prosecution , those charged with lesser offences have to spend three years keeping lawyers in clover while waiting for their turn at justice . |
| 29 | They range from the Brookings Institution , with its vast battleship of a building on Massachusetts Avenue , to tiny lobbying outfits with offices the size of a doctor 's waiting room . |
| 30 | They range from the lone back-packer who stuffs a volume of Descartes into the pocket of her shorts and forgets to take spare socks , to the package holiday-maker who packs a change of silk shirt for every evening he is going to be away . |