Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change the patient 's position two hourly to encourage secretions to drain from the chest and to relieve pressure on the chest wall . |
| 2 | The morning 's cream is quietly clotting on the stove , the gleaming copper pans are being put to use and the farmworkers are filing in to a meal which is pure poetry ; vegetables plucked from the soil within the hour , fresh baked bread , farm butter , eggs , game and fruit . |
| 3 | The need to hire coaches arose from the fact the Supporters ' Club actively discouraged membership from fans under the age of 18 . |
| 4 | EM information patterns received from the environment act on DNA molecules in living cells , which in a way produce sensitive antennae to receive and in turn relay the information throughout our biophysical system . |
| 5 | The warm breeze whispered through the chimes hanging from the balcony ceiling . |
| 6 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 7 | Brightly coloured mobiles rotating from the ceiling , as well as drawings , jewellery and prints by the great American sculptor . |
| 8 | The water is dirty with unsightly debris along the banks but swans do not seem to be deterred and ropes hanging from the freight railway bridge downstream show that local children swim in the river . |
| 9 | Expert systems are the first commercial products to come from the world of Artificial Intelligence research . |
| 10 | They merely pave the way for an increasing proportion of those emissions to come from the burning of imported coal . |
| 11 | The city is lucky in its proximity to unspoiled woodlands , some of them not much more than ten minutes walking from the centre . |
| 12 | Other birds to benefit from the treatment include a tawny owl with an injured leg , now making a fast recovery . |
| 13 | The presentation of the proposals departed from the agenda of the Congress , which , immediately they were announced , adjourned for delegations to discuss them . |
| 14 | A stock index represents the market 's estimate of the present value of the subsequent cash flows expected from the constituent companies , while the current price of a futures contract on an index for delivery at time T represents the market 's estimate of the present value at time T of the subsequent cash flows . |
| 15 | Other Essex groups to benefit from the Foundation for Sports and Arts grants are : |
| 16 | CARNAGE : Flames billow from the crater where the huge jet finally came to rest after ripping a canyon through the shattered Amsterdam apartment blocks last night Picture : DE TELEGRAAF |
| 17 | The six former Socialist deputies dropped from the government — including Mr Rocard — can not automatically reclaim their seats but , having persuaded their substitutes to stand down , must win a by-election . |
| 18 | Dixons has been one of the first retail chains to suffer from the slowing of retail demand . |
| 19 | As she finished her breathing was ragged , her eyes darting from the newsprint to stare unseeingly at the people pushing past her into the Metro and back to the newsprint again . |
| 20 | The publisher will charge around 10–15 per cent of the royalties received from the writer 's songs for this service . |
| 21 | Such ideas tend to be anathema to the Army Board , not because they are against the creation of stronger reserves ; nor because of the difficulties of finding barrack accommodation and training areas in the cramped and over-populated British Isles ; but because the units withdrawn from the Continent would become vulnerable to pruning in some future retrenchment programme — reserves are always the first to go when cuts are demanded , since their size is based on subjective rather than objective judgments . |
| 22 | Other big Japanese consumer-electronics companies , such as Sharp , Casio , Sega and Nintendo , are also showing interest in producing gadgets to profit from the blurring of boundaries between TV , telecoms and computers . |
| 23 | ‘ When he takes his glasses off , his eyes flinch from the impact of the open air , ’ said Finn . |
| 24 | The pale blue eyes gazed from the bottom of the milk pan she was scrubbing , piercing the clouds of steam from the boiling water with the quick , earnest flicker of their eyebrows . |
| 25 | Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates . |
| 26 | Both methods suffer from the problem that performance of the file degrades as additions are made , and in consequence they both require that the file should be reorganized at regular intervals . |
| 27 | ‘ The evidence is that this is purely random hate mail sent to addresses plucked from the telephone directory . ’ |
| 28 | This research provides the opportunity to explore the way in which the employment opportunities deriving from the tourist/visitor potential of areas peripheral to a core area of residential tourist development can be modelled . |
| 29 | They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’ |
| 30 | Their doubts arose from the inability to predict or control how the courts would use the power . |