Example sentences of "to [pers pn] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 2 | The ‘ conversion ’ of the UK government has been briefly described earlier ; it is manifested in their July 1989 commitment to spend £10m. on climate change research in 1989/90 and the confident request to them from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) for an extra £11m. in 1990 and £13m. in the two succeeding years for additional environmental research . |
| 3 | Most degree courses have very flexible structures and allow students to include subjects of special interest to them from the large selection available in the University . |
| 4 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that some British companies have not received the compensation due to them from the Turkish authorities controlling northern Cyprus ? |
| 5 | Further funding will cover , in part at least , the shortfall between the amount allocated to them from the common fund and their total expenditure . |
| 6 | All Leslie 's letters to me from the sealed camp at Fairford bore ( as well as the R.A.F. censor 's stamp ) undated postmarks . |
| 7 | ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me . |
| 8 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 9 | Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature . |
| 10 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 11 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 12 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 13 | Surely there could be no gain to him from the old lady 's death ? |
| 14 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 15 | When Waterford Wedgwood Canada 's Gail Lilly volunteered to help out in a major international athletics event , she never dreamed she would find a pen-pal who would write to her from the other side of the world . |
| 16 | For the next few days Ruth spent most of her waking hours with Anna , reading to her from the small collection of books Mrs Carson had brought on board , playing games , making up stories . |
| 17 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 18 | Indeed , some estimates have suggested that if the Exchequer received all the tax due to it from the black economy , the basic rate of income tax might be cut by 10 per cent . |
| 19 | No need to disturb the household , if we can come round to it from the other side . ’ |
| 20 | The annexe need not have been roofed , although there was access to it from the main part of the building . |
| 21 | An image copy of the Working-Set is taken whenever a new dictionary range is transferred to it from the Main Database . |
| 22 | Trudgill writes : speakers are not capable of acquiring the correct underlying phonological distinction unless they are exposed to it from the very beginning , before they themselves have even begun to speak . |
| 23 | The problem which arises from this is that we are never given any inkling of the totality of a king 's estates , and there is a particular difficulty in trying to construct a picture of crown land by listing all references to it from the whole Merovingian period ; if kings rewarded their followers by conferring estates on them , even though the grant might not be hereditary , the pool of land must have changed constantly . |
| 24 | You get to it from the cliff-top . ’ |
| 25 | Then , taking into account the resources of the authority , and the revenue available to it from the National Non-domestic Rate , the government is to decide how much Revenue Support Grant it will give , and how much revenue it considers should be raised by the authority itself through Community Charge . |
| 26 | It is the most potent poison known to us from the entire animal world . |
| 27 | Together you can return to us from the frozen forbidden place . |
| 28 | Most of my new friends were paras , and we used to sit around listening to our Sergeant-Major , who had been seconded to us from the 3rd Battalion after an exemplary performance in the Falklands . |
| 29 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 30 | But the world of chapter 26 is not only familiar to us from the preceding chapters of Genesis . |