Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] from [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Kuwait is preparing to make a US$1,000 million claim for compensation from Iraq to cover the costs of cleaning up after the oil well fires left burning at the end of the Gulf War in 1991 .
2 ‘ The large number of calls from Merseyside involve the same problems as from elsewhere , but there is that extra chirpiness in the voice no matter what is wrong . ’
3 Police have recently been receiving an increasing number of calls from householders reporting the theft of ‘ wheelie bins ’ .
4 Fastened directly under the top of the wardrobe or an intermediate accessory shelf , this design of rail from Woodfit avoids the sagging usually encountered with longer lengths of tubular rail .
5 However , segregation of walkers from vehicles provides the greatest safety along routes where vehicle traffic is heavy and it is increasingly realised that this is an appropriate solution too where pedestrian flows are concentrated , such as in central shopping areas .
6 So in the moment of escape from self comes the reminder of isolation .
7 In its statement finally agreed early on May 9 the Collective State Presidency ( i ) banned for one month the movement of armed formations and civilians other than army and federal police at " crisis flashpoints " in Croatia , and between mainly Serbian areas and other parts of Croatia ; ( ii ) ordered the immediate demobilization of all police reservists in Croatia and the surrender of their weapons ; and ( iii ) set up a commission including Croatian representatives as well as " legitimate representatives " of Serbs from Croatia to investigate the causes of the crisis including " the right of a nation to self-determination including secession " .
8 This mutant superactivates class II promoters but is totally inactive with respect to the activation of transcription from promoters carrying the CRP site at -61.5 ( called type I promoters ) [ 5,7 ] .
9 The very separation of the institutions of art from society neutralized the critical impulse of modernism , whereas realism functioned to centre , rather than to decentre , bourgeois identity .
10 A member of staff from Finance contacted the team concerned that her name was being given out on the radio .
11 Closer to home , in their statement of educational principles , for example , a group of teachers from Wigan included the following : ‘ Education has the responsibility of operating within a democratic system ; of respecting and nurturing democratic principles ; of being open to change by democratic process ; and , perhaps , most importantly , of encouraging within the young those qualities and skills which enable them to participate in a democracy and ultimately to develop or change it ’ ( Department of Education and Science , 1983 , p. 27 ) .
12 The multi-capable F-111 aircraft were to arrive in 1970 , while the departure of France from Nato necessitated the redeployment of some American units to Britain .
13 One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings .
14 One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings .
15 went along in March with a grup of colleagues from ISD to see the Young Vic 's presentation of Arthur Miller 's The Last Yankee : ‘ A psychiatric hospital : two visitors , two patients .
16 I have noticed that it has always been the acers that have aroused the greatest number of inquiries from readers visiting The Daily Telegraph 's garden at the Chelsea Flower Show ( preparations for this year 's are already advanced , by the way ) .
17 A piece of magic from Collins settled the issue when he won a tackle and looped over a high pass for Chris Higgs to race clear for the Police 's fourth try .
18 The West Indies selectors have been accused of bias against players from Barbados following the announcement of their Test team .
19 But after appearing on Central Television the sanctuary has been inundated with calls from people offering the animals a home .
20 During March and April 1991 Denmark came under pressure from France to join the WEU , but while Poul Schlüter , the Prime Minister of a minority coalition , was known to be sympathetic to the idea , it was equally apparent that the largest party in parliament , the Social Democrats , would effectively rule out such a move .
21 In 1989 Britain promised to reform its system of dealing with receipts from Brussels to lighten the Treasury 's touch somewhat .
22 Officials in Cambodian hospitals reported a fall in the number of casualties admitted with gunshot or shell wounds ; the numbers admitted with injuries from landmines remained the same .
23 A mob of townsfolk boarded a ship loaded with corn and cut the rigging to prevent it sailing , so that the magistrates felt obliged to call in troops from Plymouth to quell the mob .
24 The alternative , and orthodox view , sees the damage as resulting from invasions from Scotland following the withdrawal of the garrisons by the governor of Britain and usurper emperor , Clodius Albinus , in AD Fig. 7 .
25 In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand .
26 These revisions , which have been made in response to requests from centres piloting the qualifications , will come into effect from the beginning of next session .
27 A plaque on a courtyard wall pays tribute to his defence of the castle , which collapsed only when cannon on loan from Elizabeth devastated the main east front , which later had to be entirely rebuilt .
28 Welcome back : A five year old Bosnian airlifted to Britain from Sarajevo upstaged the Health Minister today , and publicly thanked hospital workers for treating him and his fellow evacuees .
29 A civil servant home on furlough from Egypt said the tunnels smelt like a crocodile 's breath .
30 Accountants administrator was with the Mantes operation in the Rhone-Poulenc days , moving to Mantes from Paris to enjoy the countryside .
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