Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] of [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walpole , it is true , kept out of wars and was able to cherish the prospect of reduction from the Sinking Fund established in 1717 . |
| 2 | The residents of Kent are generally fairly prosperous and many are prepared to forgo higher growth in order to preserve the Garden of England from the depredations of developers . |
| 3 | Being subjected to it , Offred is in a very good position — literally — to see the hypocrisy of tyranny from underneath . |
| 4 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 5 | He raised his hands in the boxer 's victory salute to acknowledge the roar of applause from the cheerleaders that began as soon as the eulogy to announce him had ended . |
| 6 | Chambers realized that , to popularize such a philosophy in the more conservative political climate south of the border , it would be necessary to uncouple the idea of transmutation from the materialist image acquired by Lamarckism . |
| 7 | The college says health workers have been deterred from getting help because of the tactics of some newspapers and it condemns the media ‘ for failing to report the reality of risk from HIV positive health care staff . |
| 8 | This geological technique may also be used to estimate the flux of neutrinos from the Sun during the Earth 's history . |
| 9 | As he struggles to banish the threat of relegation from the Premier League , 57-year-old Clough is beginning to show outward signs of a lifetime in football management . |
| 10 | As the latent inhibition effect seen at 4 h after lengthy pre-exposure is supposed to enjoy the benefit of contributions from both the short-term mechanism and from the context — stimulus association , this effect should be especially strong . |
| 11 | Meeting Milan Kucan , the Slovenian President , on July 23 , Jovic issued a severe warning against precipitate action ; he added , however , that any republic would be entitled to request the right of secession from the SFRY provided its people had voted to that effect , and that the final decision would rest with the SFRY Assembly , which would consult the views of all other republics . |
| 12 | In Indonesia , for example , there is a government policy to encourage the migration of people from the densely populated islands of Java , Madura and Bali to the more sparsely populated outer islands of the archipelago . |
| 13 | Western diplomats in Cairo said yesterday that Washington had asked Egypt to persuade the PLO to accept the exclusion of Palestinians from outside the Israeli-occupied territories in such a delegation , but they felt that neither the PLO nor Egypt was likely to accept this . |
| 14 | Likewise suppose the corporation propose to increase the number of taxicabs from 300 to 350 or 400 or more : it is the duty of the corporation to hear those affected before coming to a decision adverse to their interests . |
| 15 | The committee agreed to allow the developer to increase the number of homes from 44 to 47 and to change house types on ten plots . |
| 16 | In both cases , the pupils will enlarge more than normal , as if trying to increase the input of information from the exciting stimuli . |
| 17 | It followed , therefore , that if the Labour Government was to secure acceptance of its economic package , it had to secure the support of MPs from either the Liberal or the Conservative party . |
| 18 | First , the advent of the 1988 Housing Act and the limiting of Housing Association Grant to an average 75 per cent of development costs forces housing association and housing co-operative developments to secure the balance of funding from private sources . |
| 19 | THE Brewer 's Society yesterday urged the Chancellor to cut duty on beer in the Budget to counteract the flood of imports from France . |
| 20 | From where I stand I can see through the half-open doors of the ward , the long lines of white beds , the charts , the flowers on the central table , whose scent fails to mask the smell of antiseptics as flowers on the bench must have failed to hide the smell of humanity from the judge in less sterile days . |
| 21 | Lutyens designed the screen made by Cartier Ltd. to hide the carrying of dishes from the service area to the table . |
| 22 | US intelligence had estimated that North Korea could have nuclear weapons ready by 1993 and that it was taking action to hide the existence of components from possible international inspection . |
| 23 | Despite attempts to diminish the drain of people from the depressed areas the flow to the south continued . |
| 24 | Of 139 pamphlets which were published between 1689 and 1694 to vindicate the transference of allegiance from James to William , half of them defended the position of contractual resistance , and all without exception were Whig pamphlets . |
| 25 | But perhaps the precise reasons for its origin and the timing of its confirmation are not so important ; of greater significance is that it became a key precedent during the ensuing century for those who wished to restrict the outflow of money from the English church to the church universal and in particular to the Roman Curia ; its appeal to the interests of patrons whose intentions were thwarted or impaired by impositions on the houses so that ‘ infinite loss and disinheritance are like to ensue to the founders of the said houses and their heirs ’ was to reappear in the later statute of Provisors . |
| 26 | On Dec. 13 , 1989 , the Cabinet approved new immigration laws designed to restrict the number of immigrants from non-EC countries but also to improve the status of the 4,500,000 non-Germans living in West Germany . |
| 27 | Given this numerical limit and the need to interview users as far removed from the known sector as practicable , it was also decided to restrict the number of referrals from each informant in the chain to two . |
| 28 | If one of our aims is to increase pupils ' understanding of the universal nature of mathematics , then we need to widen the range of examples from which generalisations are drawn . |
| 29 | 1992 was a particularly difficult and frustrating year on the whole for the management business as it struggled to replace the loss of business from the private commercial sector , the mainstay in the past , and re-orientate its services to the public sector . |
| 30 | Previous annual reports have described how BGS developed a technique to enhance the yield of water from hand-dug wells . |