Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [to-vb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skol 's sales were up by 4% , thanks largely to demand from couch potatoes . |
| 2 | Mr Kenneth Clarke , the new Home Secretary , was faced with demands yesterday to release from prison a campaigner for Sikh independence who has been under threat of deportation to India . |
| 3 | Holding her neck straight to keep from looking up at ‘ Sarsaparilla ’ , she followed Trotter 's bulk back to her house . |
| 4 | It fits with a common experience of addiction , that of needing to do more and more of the drug just to keep from feeling bad . |
| 5 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 6 | National Savings were particularly competitive in the 1980's when emphasis was placed on raising government funds from this source , largely because it relieved the need somewhat to borrow from the banking system which created credit and therefore inflationary conditions , and because of the fear that government borrowing in the long-term capital markets would tend to ‘ crowd-out ’ industrial and commercial companies from that market , and impede their ability to raise funds for capital investment and long-term growth . |
| 7 | Her objective is to keep him fit between shows , which in the Yorkshire Dales is not a problem ; the horses at Heyside Farm have to climb a substantial hill just to get from the stableyard to the road . |
| 8 | ‘ I ’ m not going to Thailand just to escape from the group , ’ Kate says , still unable to move away from guilt . |
| 9 | Bleach are the first truly mind-boggling band ever to come from Ipswich , an archetypal Suffolk market town , once home of Bobby Robson and erm , that 's it . |
| 10 | Tommie flew as cannoneer but not one German fighter came out to play and Roundtrip Jack landed with a disappointed crew only to learn from the Group Armament Officer that the new B-17G with a chin turret would soon be arriving and further plans for their 20mm conversion had been scrapped . |
| 11 | Because I changed out there , but we had to pay about five pounds just to change from one line to the other . |
| 12 | ‘ Kavanagh said the steak was n't great but that the lamb was good , ’ Maggie added but Moran was already on his way out again , muttering that not even simple things were made clear in this house and if simple things could n't be made clear how was a person ever to get from one day to the next in this world . |
| 13 | He pointed to ‘ Pergoles ’ and she lifted her head again to look from side to side . |
| 14 | ‘ Hendrique was reputed to have been the best student ever to graduate from Balashikha . |
| 15 | Where risk has increased there is an increasing need for capital to provide a buffer against loss … the removal of the old protective barriers led to a rush by the smaller players to merge with new , bigger partners both to benefit from economies of scale and scope and to augment their capital base sufficiently to meet the requirements of the new , more demanding market context … |
| 16 | Polythene was perhaps the most significant invention ever to come from our research labs . |
| 17 | Many had left Europe precisely to escape from its problems , and the majority of the people supported the position adopted by Woodrow Wilson , the Democrat who was then President . |
| 18 | This makes Mercury hard to see from the Earth . |
| 19 | But in the space of less than eighteen months the government had curtailed the nuclear programme and sent the FBR into a dormancy hard to distinguish from a death coma . |
| 20 | For example , a solicitors ' practice operating out of High Street , Falkirk , may feel it has a lot less to fear from terrorist attack than , say , one in the City . |
| 21 | Crook added : ‘ People might be saying this is the beginning of the end of our challenge , but There 's such a lot more to come from us . |
| 22 | While happy enough with the performance , Chalmers reckons there 's a lot more to come from this Scottish team . |
| 23 | America was conceived in vision as one of the greatest dreams of men ; it was to be the first nation ever to escape from oppression and the freed spirit would bring forth a splendid nation . |
| 24 | Lawson comes over as smug and arrogant , yet his is the best book yet to emerge from inside the Thatcher years . |
| 25 | Well more misery for Forest another defeat more injuries less to go from strength to strength and we 'll be right back . |
| 26 | The only German prisoner ever to escape from Britain , described in the book The One that Got Away , made his first attempt from Fetherstone . |
| 27 | You 're a third of the way into your second year , with another full year still to run from next September . ’ |
| 28 | The former Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , called his green paper ‘ one of the most sinister documents ever to emanate from Government ’ . |
| 29 | The Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , referred to the first paper on the profession as ‘ one of the most sinister documents ever to emanate from Government ’ . |
| 30 | In what must rank as one of the most petty letters ever to emerge from the SFA , an organisation that has never been known for its broad-mindedness , the secretary demanded that the ball be returned . |