Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb mod] [vb infin] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no natural flint in Islay so from where did the inhabitants obtain the great quantity of nodules they would require from which to make their tools ? |
| 2 | ‘ Use your spears , fools — see what blood they 'll draw from the air ! ’ |
| 3 | Invited the Lord President to take soundings among Government supporters with a view to determining whether it would be possible to persuade those who were in favour of the abolition of capital punishment that in the interests of securing the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in the 1947–48 Session they should refrain from pressing for this change in the law ; |
| 4 | Children who had seen the ending of the film were the aggressor was berated were just as aggressive if rewarded with candy for every act they could re-create from the film . |
| 5 | When you are on evening duty , get to know individual bedtimes ( though be prepared for someone to change their mind ) and check what kind of help they would like from you . |
| 6 | While this obviously placed great limitations on the evidence available to social anthropologists it also spared them.the problems of trying to find out what help they could get from documentary sources . |
| 7 | They would need all the help they could get from beach surveys and marker canoes , so 50 Combined Operations Assault Pilotage Parties ( COPPs ) were proposed . |
| 8 | The responsibility now usually rests heavily on the shoulders of one or , with luck , perhaps two relatives , and they will often need all the help they can get from the local social , medical , nursing and voluntary services . |
| 9 | But they admit they need all the help they can get from the public . |
| 10 | ‘ The problem is that when a new trick appears , everyone is trying to see what advantages they can get from it . |
| 11 | Scotland he had gone to see , and Scotland they would receive from his eyes and words . |
| 12 | Not a taking up of the old ways , but she had anticipated that for at least part of the evening they would move from professional matters to personal . |
| 13 | In woodlands they can swing from tree to tree or scramble over the treetops to drop to the forest floor below . |
| 14 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 15 | However , in asking for finance for research , or trying to persuade an organisation they would benefit from your work , it is sometimes necessary to describe the work more in ‘ social problem ’ terms . |
| 16 | These primitive Orcs used stone weapons , wooden clubs , and what other weaponry they could steal from more advanced races . |
| 17 | The increased dose they would get from having Hinkley C on their doorstep , according to Jeremy Western ( a manager from the Board 's Health Physics department who confidently fronted the radiation case ) was less than if they had simply moved from one part of Britain to another — where the ‘ natural ’ background radiation happened to be higher . |
| 18 | The 1985 Committee of the National Conference of Professors of Educational Administration , for instance , took the best advice they could find from a wide variety of sources to produce the prophecies in Educational futurism 1985 , published in Berkeley , California , in 1971 . |
| 19 | He 'd backed a winner — he had n't paid as much in contributions as money they could draw from dying . |
| 20 | I do n't like to ask how much money they will receive from the government , but the laibon tells me : seventy-five dollars , the price of two new cows . |
| 21 | The Bridge of Ice may be used to move friendly troops into hand-to-hand combat , in which case they may fight from the following combat round and count as charging in the first round . |
| 22 | By such a route they might escape from the niches of their birth , and gain access to something better — to better weapons , possibly to some real food different from synthcake and synthgruel . |
| 23 | The pomeshchiks derived their livelihood in part from an irregular salary paid while on active service , but primarily from the income they could extract from the peasants settled on their farms . |
| 24 | With this , the petrified toddler would disappear in the rushing water and , floundering like an asthmatic salmon , be tossed like a cork all the way down , occasionally smashing its as-yet-unhardened cranium into the wall and ending up bobbing dazed in the pool at the bottom , while other members of the family zoomed in with the Camcorder , dreaming of the £1,000 they 'd win from Jeremy Beadle . |
| 25 | Weaker than the last , it holds that beliefs given us as ‘ data ’ are never fully justified merely for that reason , but that all such beliefs are already partially justified , quite apart from any further support they may receive from other beliefs . |
| 26 | Just a description they 'll get from the people who run this place . |
| 27 | But … freedom they can have from none but you … |
| 28 | The panel will try to assess the recruit 's ability to remain impartial and courteous even under pressure and their ability to keep any strong opinions they may have from influencing the advice process . |
| 29 | Presumably , if the military or industry changed their minds about the utility of this approach they could withdraw from it . |
| 30 | The message they will receive from Mr Desmond Pitcher , chairman of the company , is that the 700 megawatts of pollution-free energy released by harnessing the 10-metre tidal rise and fall will be commercially attractive over the project 's 120-year life . |