Example sentences of "[to-vb] from the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The dangerous dreamed melon of the sage ’ which turned out to come from the dream of Descartes . |
| 2 | You 'll be hard pressed to choose from the array of goods displayed in the shops lining the main street . |
| 3 | The plan meets the garrulous approval of the exiled monarch Wladislas , who calls himself ‘ a middle-class professional man ’ and who is relieved to escape from the rivalry of priests and nobles and the expense of entertaining courtiers of extravagant tastes who ‘ love dressing up in uniforms , putting on swords and attending state balls ’ and whose appetites are such that ‘ a bullock roasted whole and a couple of pigs go no distance at a supper table in Lystria ’ . |
| 4 | He now realized that specialization for a particular way of life was an advantage even in a stable environment , because it allowed a species to escape from the pressure of rivals seeking to exploit the same resource . |
| 5 | Pilger would be allowed to be editor in chief , but to take the job he would have to resign from the Board of Directors . |
| 6 | It may ( or may not ) be useful to abstract from the behaviour of nations according to similarities of geography , size , weather , constitution , race , religion , economic organization , and so forth . |
| 7 | He wondered which row to select from the library of disputes available to him . |
| 8 | So for any particular project we want a quality plan which will tell us what the client brief is , tell us which procedures we 're going to use from the suite of procedures available within C E D G , and following the dictates of the quality plan which will be individual for each individual project , we get an output . |
| 9 | ‘ How futile to announce that some great lead to thought was going to emerge from the mountain of memoranda discussed at high pressure by exhausted delegates . ’ |
| 10 | It is unacceptable to deduce from the lack of prosecutions that hooligan behaviour was formerly tolerated to such a degree that the culprits were neither censured nor prosecuted . |
| 11 | It is easy to see from the list of qualities appropriate to the good Beguine listed in one thirteenth-century manuscript how their piety engaged with contemplative spirituality . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yet both had lessons to learn from the behaviour of electrons . |
| 14 | One such senior said the intention was to allow the probationer to learn from the experience of others ( FN 4/4/87 , p. 6 ) , on the assumption that people learn ‘ on the job ’ rather than in the depot . |
| 15 | The arbitration of right action is again much more open to influence from the world of adults and , in particular , teachers . |