Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was the purpose of my digression from anthropology to the sociology of monetary exchange . |
| 2 | It took an act of will to think of cool winds on hilltops or the pattern of water-shadows over wave-carved sand — things which I have always thought epitomise clarity and freshness and helped to divert my brain from dwelling on the contents of my stomach . |
| 3 | Like the other office-holders , I am debarred by my office from membership of the professional conduct committees . |
| 4 | Five ministers resigned from the Chandra Shekhar government in February 1991 following their disqualification from membership of the Lok Sabha under the anti-defection laws [ see pp. 38005-06 ] . |
| 5 | It was reported on Dec. 31 that the Zambian Congress of Trade Unions had decided to switch its support from UNIP to the MMD . |
| 6 | His family made their money from investment in the railways . ’ |
| 7 | As a loss maker , Provincial received the bulk of its income from grants from the PTEs , and from the government in the form of the Public Service Obligation ( PSO ) . |
| 8 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 9 | As a retired person myself , I occasionally took my 90-year-old disabled mother in her wheelchair from Cockerton to the town centre . |
| 10 | FERGIE is throwing a Christmas party for the people who gave her the courage to get over her fall from grace in the Royal Family . |
| 11 | For Arsenal , on the other hand , it seemed to be the night which confirmed their fall from grace as the Premier League 's early season favourites . |
| 12 | Coaches are popular in the US but this , by my theory , is the reason for their fall from grace as the world 's greatest players . |
| 13 | That was how he had greeted her at Euston on her return from Ireland after the New Year . |
| 14 | However , under intense international pressure at the Geneva conference , supported by US President George Bush 's Oct. 2 announcement that the USA was prepared to participate in enforcing the ban , Karadzic finally on Oct. 13 agreed to the grounding of all combat aircraft and their transfer from Bosnia to the FRY ( Serbia being the only party to have combat aircraft ) . |
| 15 | For the accompanying media corps , swelled by correspondents from the Atlantic to the Urals , there were long hours and early starts , countless mid-air prawn sandwiches , several overnight stays , two hot meals and just one real story — when Kinnock 's press secretary , Julie Hall , committed professional suicide in order to save her leader from embarassment in the row over who leaked Jennifer Bennett 's name . |
| 16 | Historically , what has happened is that the rock vanguard has shifted its focus from eroticism to the psychedelic powers of horror . |
| 17 | The Czechoslovak government faced a demand from Sudeten Germans for material compensation for their expulsion from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War . |
| 18 | However , the growing budget deficit and lax credit policies led to its devaluation from parity with the rouble and caused a near breakdown in trade between Ukraine and Russia . |
| 19 | Doris is no stranger to the UK , having been resident at Duxford in the mid-1970s during its flight from India to the USA . |
| 20 | This prophecy came true when in 1870 the Dingwall & Skye Railway opened its line from Dingwall on the eastern seaboard to Strome Ferry on the west on the shores of the waters of Loch Carron . |
| 21 | The civil division of the Order of the Bath is the jealously guarded preserve of the home civil service , so that every six months a new crop of bureaucrats begin making their way from Companion of the Bath to Knight Commander or Dame Commander to Knight Grand Cross . |
| 22 | The coach was on its way from Barcelona to the Expo 92 World Fair at Seville . |
| 23 | Every few minutes a truck thunders down the strategic Salang Highway on its way from Hiratan on the Soviet border to Kabul . |
| 24 | As refuge staff were still celebrating the royal windfall , the princess was on her way from Balmoral to the Trinity House hospice in Blackpool . |
| 25 | A main reason for their conversion from companies in the conventional form has been the maintenance of employment . |
| 26 | The common link was that they were long-term drug abusers , and they all bought their heroin from pushers in the streets of San Jose and Watsonville , in June and July . |
| 27 | Buy-out teams often resist this on the ground that the financiers would obtain their reward from participation in the buy-out . |
| 28 | Mr Heslop was replying to evidence supporting Mr Venables ' attempt to continue an injunction preventing his removal from Spurs pending the hearing of his Companies Court plea for the right to buy out Mr Sugar 's 47.8pc holding in the club . |
| 29 | Although he began life with a number of advantages , not least middle-class parents , his route from Shotts to the Cabinet was still a lot more difficult than most of his Government colleagues . |
| 30 | He tucked himself into a tight ball , and , at the last moment , rolled on to his side from terror of the rocks beneath the surface . |