Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely that such evidence would show up ethnic and cultural variations ; for example , Anwar reports that it is common for migrants from Pakistan to borrow money from kin for major purchases such as a house or a business , but there is a strong obligation to return this loan fully and quickly ( Anwar , 1985 , p. 72 ) . |
| 2 | This was because it amounted to a transfer back to X of property in the car ( because Y 's cheque had not been met ) in return for X waiving any right to enforce payment from Y. At the time of the repossession , X was unaware of Y's sale to Z and thus by repossessing the car with Y 's acquiescence , X obtained ownership of it by virtue of section 25(1) of the 1893 Act ( i.e. section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Opponents of the NGC 's plans to erect pylons from Lackenby on Teesside to Shipton near York challenged the company at a pre-public inquiry meeting in Northallerton yesterday . |
| 4 | There have already been more than 50 attempts to extort money from America with nuclear threats , some frighteningly credible . |
| 5 | ‘ My brief is to channel funds from Britain into the Province . |
| 6 | One of the main aims of all financial institutions , including banks , is to channel funds from surplus to deficit units in an economy . |
| 7 | In Chapter 1 we said that it was the job of a financial system to channel funds from surplus to deficit sectors . |
| 8 | When the psychologist Donald Griffin describes the ability of great tits and chickadees to obtain milk from bottles by ‘ pecking through their shiny coverings with the conscious intention of obtaining food ’ ( 1984 : 35 ) , it is obvious that were he not talking of a ‘ conscious intention ’ , in the normal human acceptation of the phrase , he would fail to arouse the average reader 's curiosity and sympathies . |
| 9 | But perhaps someone from Midland can explain how they hope to attract accounts from youngsters in their first jobs who have not passed their driving test and have never had a passport . |
| 10 | to know story from life of friend that is authentic and clearly related to the goal of the session . |
| 11 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |
| 12 | Many gardening businesses have hit rocky ground but Waterers expects to increase turnover from £4.8m to £6m in the year to July . |
| 13 | It can be used to obtain responses from pupils beyond what they would otherwise achieve . |
| 14 | Those conceptions hold that it is not so much the white individuals who are the oppressors , for they are only part of an overall structure which has been designed to exclude blacks from positions of seniority . |
| 15 | The Humber Tavern , built 1808 , was where the landlord used to try to attract visitors from Hull with a bathing machine . |
| 16 | He gathered like-minded officers round him , and dispatched each in turn to run the service for which he seemed fit : N. R. Crockatt , whose prowess he had admired at Rugby , to secure intelligence from prisoners of war ; E. R. Coombe to form the inter-services security board , which handled code-names and deception as well as security ; ( Sir ) Gerald Templer [ q.v. ] |
| 17 | The Social Security Pensions Act 1975 specifically allows employers to exclude workers from membership of occupational pension schemes by occupational category , thus facilitating the legal exclusion of women in vertically segregated occupational categories which are mainly or exclusively female . |
| 18 | Arrangements were made to obtain contributions from employers of casual labour who might have more than one employer in any week . |
| 19 | Imro also plans to demand explanations from members with complex ownership structures . |
| 20 | It is likely to attract criticism from members on the grounds that it exploits the plight of the unemployed by using them as cheap labour at the same time as removing them from the unemployment statistics . |
| 21 | It can make it easier to place pupils for Work Experience , to find partners from industry for curriculum development or advisers for Mini-Enterprise . |
| 22 | In particular , as Walsh emphasized in his public statement of Sept. 16 , it highlighted the difficulties of reconciling the need for rapid exposure of government wrongdoing , which prompted congressional investigators to grant immunity from prosecution to key witnesses , with the aim of convicting those responsible for misdeeds . |
| 23 | Dealers , sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms , would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms . |
| 24 | Protracted bargaining , Williamson argues , is less likely for three reasons : people feel part of a unified organization , and so are less inclined to argue ; management has the right to demand information from workers in the organization , and therefore can restrict opportunism ; and , ultimately , management can use its authority to guillotine any dispute that threatens to be prolonged . |
| 25 | There will be cases where it will be necessary to obtain reports from consultants in different areas of expertise . |
| 26 | In the latter I was shocked to find letters from contenders for the distinction of Nottingham 's oldest graduate who were only a year or two older than I. Maybe I ought to record some of my own recollections as a student in the Physics Department of University College Nottingham during the academic years 1928 to 1932 . |
| 27 | Although my right hon. Friend the Member for Worthing ( Mr. Higgins ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Horsham ( Sir P. Hordern ) mentioned in interventions yesterday a situation in my county of West Sussex which is replicated in many other local authority areas , there should be an opportunity — within order — to raise matters of concern and to obtain assurances from Ministers about them . |
| 28 | As a part of that we intend to arrange excursions from time to time , and there will be winter lectures . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , after 48 hours , there was a significant ability to discriminate paraphrases from originals for all types of lecture material tested ( topic statements , details , jokes and asides ) . |
| 30 | Its function is to receive applications from teachers of law for exemption ( full or partial ) from the requirements of the Consolidated Regulations in respect of |