Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] from [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also the undoubted administrative convenience of having the experience and structure of the former county boroughs to draw on when establishing departments in the new authorities : a district without this advantage would need to create departments from scratch amid the other upheavals of reorganisation . |
| 2 | One important corollary of the decision that obscene material must have more serious effects than arousing feelings of revulsion is the doctrine that material which in fact shocks and disgusts may not be obscene , because its effect is to discourage readers from indulgence in the immorality so unseductively portrayed . |
| 3 | The British Veterinary Association subsequently urged the government to discourage farmers from breeding from the offspring of " mad cows " . |
| 4 | In short , wage inflation operates not only to divert resources from investment in the country 's manufacturing capacity but also to make borrowing and exporting more and more difficult . |
| 5 | If the hon. Gentleman cares to consider examples from south of the border , he will see that trusts there are cutting waiting lists , employing more doctors , treating more patients and providing a wider range of services at times convenient to patients . |
| 6 | Indeed , it only recognized the PLO as a substantive interlocutor for the Palestinian people after world condemnation of its decision to bar Arafat from entry to the United States to address the United Nations in New York in December 1988 , and after he had addressed its General Assembly in Geneva instead . |
| 7 | THE BACKERS of an unusual operation to recover tin From mud on the seabed off Cornwall are interested in setting up similar ventures elsewhere . |
| 8 | Where George Eliot tends simply to employ terms from painting in the description of her great houses , Henry James , for whom they have retreated a stage further , actually presents them in the two dimensions of paint . |
| 9 | Relief sources said government forces had set up roadblocks to prevent refugees from flooding into the capital , Kigali. — Reuter |
| 10 | Nor did they know of the old Swedish experiments attempting to make helium from hydrogen in the laboratory . |
| 11 | Teachers have made links that have enabled them to write entire modules for GCSE and to involve people from industry in the classroom . |