Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] from their " in BNC.

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1 They responded eagerly to the plea for help from their re-attached and perhaps rather intimidated kinsmen .
2 The loss of speed from their rougher bottoms was compensated by the fact that they could be sailed harder than wooden ships in blowing weather .
3 Instead they park them in a special nursery area , packed tightly together so that the loss of heat from their bare bodies is minimised .
4 A once-weekly trip gave them the opportunity to earn some ‘ pin money ’ and secure a change of scene from their relatively monotonous round .
5 Nichols and Armstrong claimed that many workers in that factory experienced a high level of alienation from their work .
6 Moreover , although such communicators may expect a relatively high level of attention from their audiences , the complexity of the material and arguments may require extra attention and effort .
7 In fact GLCABS now require this level of commitment from their new recruits .
8 Ian Poulter ( left ) and Matthew Lucas had made all the cakes themselves — with a bit of help from their mums and Ian 's sister , Ann .
9 Wives were not unaware of the pressures experienced by men at the workplace and on the whole tended to accept the burden of domestic responsibilities that fell to their lot , and which , if left undone or mismanaged , might provoke some kind of outburst from their husbands .
10 And he recommended that most prisons should be ‘ community prisons ’ catering for a wide variety of prisoners from their locality , a prescription which does not seem readily compatible with the notion that this sort of mixture is conducive to disorder .
11 Human beings are needed for those tasks for a variety of reasons from their highly dexterous manipulative potential through to their ability to accept informal instructions .
12 Trains are operated on almost an hourly basis throughout the day , using a variety of locomotives from their varied collection .
13 We had also determined to acquit ourselves well in the removal of fish from their natural habitat , and Blair and I set out one evening intent upon playing havoc with Ythan sea-trout .
14 Draper says , ‘ the dice are loaded against the parents ’ ; Holman that the 1975 Act ‘ concentrates exclusively on facilitating the removal of children from their families and on reducing the rights of natural parents ’ .
15 With the plaudits of the 4,000 Bedford fans still ringing in their ears from their exhilarating brand of rugby from their pre-English international game last week , the Philiphaugh faithful were equally ecstatic following their team 's magnificent recovery against Stirling .
16 Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important medieval borough ; other places had been small market centres whose burgesses had obtained some measure of independence from their manorial lords .
17 There is now a well-developed body of theory which explains many aspects of the identification of people from their faces .
18 Clothiers in Baintree and Barking followed suit and demanded the return of thrums from their weavers .
19 By unspoken arrangement , those who preferred to travel in silence were left alone when they had received and returned a nod of acknowledgement from their closest neighbours …
20 Many fish rely on the reflection of light from their mirror-like scales to hide them , and it is likely that the squid 's eye can penetrate this disguise .
21 But this will need constant nurturing if it is to develop into an appreciation of the richness of poetry , where words are ‘ alive with a plurality of meanings from their contexts , their associations and their sensory qualities ; they are alive with what Ted Hughes calls ‘ the goblin in a word'' ’ ( this quotation is from Michael Benton 's essay on ‘ The Importance of Poetry in Children 's Learning ’ , from the NATE book Lessons in English Teaching and Learning [ 1988 ] ) ( p. 148 ) .
22 The full range of objects from their sumptuous commemorative catalogue is not included ( the Sebastiano del Piombo of Pope Clement VII , for example , has already gone to the Getty Museum ) , apparently due to the ongoing likelihood of sales .
23 Guests can call a range of services from their own rooms by dialling or keying one digit .
24 Aspects of the ‘ crisis ’ , such as the separation of children from their family homes , worried and frightened them , and the possibility that the doctors were wrong brought welcome relief from the pain of child sexual abuse and precipitated denial and anger in the community .
25 Patrick Jenkin , as Conservative Social Services Secretary , more recently described how he had been reliably informed that ‘ the increasing turbulence of modern life , with rising crime , industrial disruption , violence and terrorism , was rooted in the separation of children from their parents during the war ’ .
26 In both , the main class order can be criticized on the grounds of the separation of Sciences from their respective Technologies .
27 The couple were mown down yards from their home by a car driven by 47-year-old Jill Gunns , who is believed to have had a row with her boy-friend .
28 It means that necessarily there have been variations in people 's need for support from their kin , and in the capacity of kin to provide it .
29 The funds are suited to those investors not having any immediate need for income from their investments and who wish to accumulate returns .
30 Grey city streets enlivened by boldly patterned boardshorts and shirts present a feeble parody of a lost paradise : fashion and tourism have together unmoored a raft of signifiers from their origins .
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