Example sentences of "[vb base] from [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ghost fighter has now reached that blessed state : ‘ Where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest . ’ |
| 2 | And so , too , when we shift from reporting our current feelings , the feelings of the " addressing self " , to the feelings we no longer espouse . |
| 3 | " When we shift from saying something to reporting what someone else said , we are changing our footing . |
| 4 | He will be surprised — I fear that he may even be disappointed — by the figures that we shall announce next week , which specify the output that we expect from housing associations in 1992-93 . |
| 5 | The planning application was turned down after residents complained about the probability of noise , smoke and smell from standing locomotives in the platform . |
| 6 | In each country calm weather was preventing car exhaust fumes and smoke from blowing away , leading to a sharp rise in carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere . |
| 7 | This scheme is a great success as our trainees benefit from learning in a real working environment . |
| 8 | This does not of course mean that management control has detrimental effects in all companies , since that would be to ignore the significance of management values , and in any case the extent to which managers benefit from pursuing non-profit goals is unclear . |
| 9 | To what extent though do student architects actually benefit from staying at university or polytechnic for so long ? |
| 10 | Research has shown that patients benefit from looking at green plants and gardens . |
| 11 | It 's not just hippos who benefit from wallowing in it , you know . |
| 12 | To gain the most benefit from installing a desk top publishing system you must be prepared to learn something about the general area of printing . |
| 13 | Individual workstations in the network can be used on different tasks at the same time and users benefit from sharing centrally held programs , datafiles and storage ( memory ) facilities . |
| 14 | Even if they are able to find employment or occupation , it is not felt that families should be forced to provide a home for their handicapped son or daughter until they are too old to do so , or that this is necessarily the best thing for the development of a mentally handicapped adult who could derive considerable stimulation and benefit from living apart from their family . |
| 15 | In theory , it is logical to balance the compensation paid to aggrieved owners by collecting a betterment charge on owners who benefit from planning controls . |
| 16 | Whilst the fact that our national economic prosperity depends upon selling overseas is not without relevance to individual companies , there are a number of more pressing reasons why companies benefit from selling overseas . |
| 17 | Females benefit from having several male partners because they all help to rear her young . |
| 18 | ( Perhaps this is why it is claimed that boys ' academic performance is higher in ‘ mixed ’ schools than in ‘ boys only ’ schools : they benefit from having a whole group to be better than ! |
| 19 | Will not people in Scotland quickly benefit from having several NHS trust hospitals ? |
| 20 | He did , of course benefit from having a very good defence . |
| 21 | Even these unpretentious , non-vintage champagnes benefit from keeping for a time ; the great champagnes repay keeping for years and years . |
| 22 | The attractiveness of these ideas will depend , of course , on the nature of your work and whether you could contribute to and benefit from working with others . |
| 23 | An opportunity to profit from this excellent Savings Plan and benefit from growing financial protection for your family |
| 24 | Ok , I see your point now ; - ) Im sure he would nt need to learn much from Wilko at all tactically etc , maybe in the practical aspects of mgt — so I cant see MUCH benefit from sitting next to him in the dug out . |
| 25 | Women affected by mild to moderately severe degrees of bulimia appear to reap the most benefit from attending group sessions . |
| 26 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 27 | About 650 people die from smoking attributable diseases every year in South Tees and the bill for hospital care for smoking-related illnesses is £1,895,000 . |
| 28 | These range from determining exactly where in Europe the lord of an English medieval manor was at a certain date ( for the more senior magnates were often crusaders , pilgrims , legates and diplomatists ) to ascertaining precisely when an eighteenth-century trading agreement with a French merchant was concluded . |
| 29 | Responses range from bribing ( as your competitors do ) to refusing to bribe at all , but making adjustments ( for instance to price ) that will compensate for the bribe being offered and allow competition for a contract to be real . |
| 30 | After that , it would be renewed only if the president indicated that China had adhered to human-rights commitments , stopped the export of goods made with prison labour and made ‘ overall significant progress ’ on a set of other matters , which range from ceasing religious persecution in Tibet to prohibiting the transfer of missile technology to Syria , Pakistan and Iran . |