Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb mod] [vb infin] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they may differ from their informal counterparts is in the amount of time spent on such studies or on the message given to the children and their parents that such activities are incidental to ‘ real ’ learning ( the mastery of arithmetical or grammatical skills ) . |
| 2 | The problem is they have a lot of strong cards : I do n't know who they are , how many they are , where they 'll come from , or when . |
| 3 | Thus , eventually , the Kurds were given the ‘ choice ’ of staying in the mountains to continue to die in droves — or taking their chances with Saddam and heading back where they 'd come from . |
| 4 | Where they 'd come from ? |
| 5 | Yet it is absolute in the sense that it informs the spirit and the circumstances of our actions , which means that acts of violence would still be wrong although they might result from moral considerations and moral decisions , and in the sense that the attainment of desired ends could never justify the means used to attain them . |
| 6 | Unless the mutation has become established , it is extremely rare for such forms to be found in the wild , although they must occur from time to time . |
| 7 | Moreover farmers , at least , continue to appreciate the skills of farm workers , so that the latter obtain much higher esteem from their employers than they can expect from many newcomers . |
| 8 | What shoppers really want , it says , is American-style freephone numbers , so they can shop from home and spend more of their spare time socialising or playing sport . |
| 9 | For UK investors , the fund has the additional attraction of being mainly invested in European hard currency countries , so they will benefit from any further weakness in sterling . |
| 10 | ‘ I still do n't know if my family know where I am or if they will suffer from my decision . |
| 11 | In the early days , the band 's self-image was completely true because they would walk from the floor of the club on to the state and then mingle with the punters afterwards . |
| 12 | In practice the latter method is preferred by most journalists because they can see from whom the information originally came . |
| 13 | Reaffirmed their decision of 3rd November that the decision on this issue should be left to a free vote , preferably on the Report stage of the Bill in the House of Commons ; and agreed that Ministers who dissented from the advice which was to be tendered in accordance with Conclusion above should be free , if they so desired , to vote for the abolition of the death penalty , though they should refrain from expressing in debate views contrary to that advice ; … |
| 14 | Unlike their relatives the gibbons , orangs do not leap , though they can swing from tree to tree , a process known as brachiation . |
| 15 | They wanted any interim government to be as Burmese in composition as they could secure from HMG . |
| 16 | The mariners spent the night in such shelter as they could find from the 30-knot winds , drenching squalls and menacing waves . |
| 17 | This date of April I can understand the Minister er the Minister of Transport is concerned , but unless something is done pretty quickly there 'll be a lot of people in Leeds who will be worrying about what 's going to happen on er around the station because there is this small group of people no not always from the town concerned or the city concerned , who behave in this abysmal way and British Transport Police have a very good record at the stations and on the trains as they can move from one part of the country to another . |
| 18 | She expects to find Minna and Becky sitting in a huff in the coffee lounge , keeping as great a distance as they can manage from their ridiculously costumed sisters and brother-in-law . |
| 19 | However this may not give a learner as much help as they can get from seeing the actions , people , objects and settings location footage will contain . |