Example sentences of "[vb base] from the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will emphasis shift from the provision of services with a high value-added component to the bulk handling of a large number of fairly simple enquiries ? |
| 2 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 3 | Some spits grow from the mainland towards islands , with the result that the islands become tied to the land by shingle bars , which are known as tombolos . |
| 4 | It is easy to give examples where individual outsiders benefit from the activity of insiders ; the fact remains that the expected rate of return to outsiders on stock market investments ( even to the large institutional investors such as pensions funds and mutual funds ) is lowered by insider dealing . |
| 5 | Rumours range from the truth through analysts ' exaggerations to blatant lies whose purpose is to make a profit or extract a dealer from an awkward position . |
| 6 | Fears that the staging might be a little too picturesque are quickly dispelled as realistic dummies drop from the ceiling on ropes and dangle above the actors ' heads . |
| 7 | Students select from the range of units offered within the BA Hons Philosophy course ( see page 122 ) . |
| 8 | The Sumerians certainly maintained trade contacts with India , as we know from the testimony of seal-stones . |
| 9 | After the rut the males separate from the groups of females and begin their more or less solitary existence once again . |
| 10 | Similarly , where obnoxious odours emanate from the keeping of animals ; either s.92(1) ( b ) , ( c ) , ( d ) or even ( a ) may be relevant . |
| 11 | If those who profit from the sale of descriptions of their investigations and speculations about matters of public interest are not restrained by fear of appropriate penal or financial consequences from publishing defamatory statements which are false , it is likely that some of them would publish so much in the nature of defamatory allegations against public organisations , and the men and women who run those organisations , that the public , if there was no effective process for determining whether the charges were substantially true or not , might cease to be greatly concerned about the charges save for such amusement as the stories might provide . |
| 12 | Political decisions emerge from the interaction of groups who have conflicting objectives as well as mutually advantageous bargains to make with each other . |
| 13 | But it is better to see the ideology of the Tory Reaction as authoritarian rather than absolutist , since those who stressed obedience to the Crown typically also urged the need for obedience to the laws — the laws , that is , which had been established to protect both Church and State from the challenge of subversives . |
| 14 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 15 | Later , when Caxton set up his printing press in the fifteenth century , the expert printers he employed were Dutch : so although the written language became more standardised , many of our odder spellings derive from the attempts of Dutchmen to symbolise English words . |
| 16 | Care should be taken with these figures because of the different methods of collection already cited , and there are discontinuities which derive from the absence of non-responses in the job-centre area data for 1981 . |
| 17 | These ‘ pus ’ cells migrate from the blood to sites of noxious stimuli , be they bacterial , fungal , viral , or inanimate . |
| 18 | Structural obstacles in the Community arise from the organisation of shareholdings that inhibit the free transfer of securities . |
| 19 | The issues can be grouped in three main categories : first , those which have a general significance for the future development of all present-day societies ; second , those which arise from the relations between societies ; and third , those which are specific to particular types of society . |
| 20 | The most significant benefits arise from the use of microcomputers and word-processors to handle a wide range of data in conjunction with telephones and other telecommunication media . |
| 21 | Perhaps the only instances of expert determination where there is no dispute arise from the valuation of shares in private companies . |
| 22 | There are other relationships between subjects known as syntactic relationships which arise from the context of subjects in specific documents — from the syntax . |
| 23 | The central contribution of these models has been to focus on the ‘ spill-over ’ effects that result from the failure of markets to clear . |
| 24 | Bright jets of material sometimes spurt from the nuclei of comets . |
| 25 | Despite the various amounts that come from the Foundation for Sports and the Arts — given at the whim of the trustees in a haphazard fashion — they do not compensate in any way for the £60 million cut in real grant from the Government since 1986 . |
| 26 | Most of them come from the island of Samos or Bodrum in Turkey . |
| 27 | During the preparation of the proposal , key members of staff are encouraged to visit schools where the project is already in action in order to gain ideas and learn from the experience of others . |
| 28 | Just turning gas appliances off is not sufficient apparently — small amounts of gas still escape from the joints of pipes . |