Example sentences of "to a [noun sg] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tentative Taif agreement , on the other hand , sets no timetable for a total Syrian withdrawal and refers only to a pull-out from the Beirut area within two years . |
| 2 | While the siege of Calais was in progress , in answer to a call from the French , the Scots attacked the north of England . |
| 3 | On July 16 the UN Security Council , responding to a call from the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) [ see p. 38992 ] , asked UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in Resolution 765 to send a special representative to South Africa . |
| 4 | Thus in their reply in 1897 to a memorial from the men asking for a 50-hour week , the Edinburgh Master Printers " Association ( MPA ) pleaded that competition was too intense for them to agree : " The great bulk of printing now done in Edinburgh is for London publishers . |
| 5 | Quebec 's Liberal premier , Robert Bourassa , introduced the new law partly in response to a ruling from the United Nations Human-Rights Committee . |
| 6 | As Mr Wolski ate his usual morning toast and marmalade he was listening to a spokesman from the RSPB saying , ‘ We think it possible that the eagle will try to find high ground . |
| 7 | According to a spokesman from the Thai section of the Earth Island Institute , the growing use of such unsustainable fishing practices in Cambodia is disrupting the main spawning grounds of numerous fish species , and thus threatening the ecosystem of the Mekong Basin as a whole . |
| 8 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 9 | Robyn looked forward to a change from the suburban backyards and business parks she had created of late . |
| 10 | This has led to a departure from the generally accepted principle of state funding for educational projects . |
| 11 | Accordingly , article 119 did not apply to the Employment Secretary 's liability to make section 106 payments , and an employee who had become entitled to a state pension and was then dismissed for redundancy was not entitled to a payment from the Employment Secretary under section 106 . |
| 12 | In the case of black speakers , because LE is almost certainly their dominant language , though they may have been exposed to Creole first ; at any rate , the possibility that these occasional " Creolisms " are due to a carry-over from the " mother tongue " remains doubtful and unproven . |
| 13 | And the programme ended as it dropped onto the fire to a chorus from the rest of Alf 's family of ‘ unclean , unclean ’ . |
| 14 | The blue-green pillars of Hamelin Pool are living stromatolites and the groups of them standing on the sun-dappled sea-floor are as close as we may ever get to a scene from the world of two thousand million years ago . |
| 15 | In answer to a question from the prosecution , Day replied that William Tidbury seemed very much on edge and in a nervous condition , which was unusual for him . |
| 16 | One of these , Jimmie , was used by him for a harmless demonstration of the electrocardiogram at the Royal Society and became the subject of a famous parliamentary reply to a question from the anti-vivisection lobby ( Hansard , 8 July 1909 ) . |
| 17 | African countries would be well advised to refuse many of the pesticides that they receive for free , according to a scientist from the US Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 18 | The wardens , Eric and Hannah Glover , welcomed her with more restraint but equal friendliness and introduced her to a man from the Home Office who had come to visit — well , to inspect , in effect , but the mood was holiday , informal , and the man from the Home Office smiled with the rest of them . |
| 19 | There are regular canal pubs and boatyards and if you moor up near a town you will usually find yourself half a mile to a mile from the town centre . |
| 20 | She decided to treat herself to a fig from the bowl and found its skin still damp , as though it had been recently washed . |
| 21 | Disabled sportsman , Ian Hayden , to a rest from the golf course , to set a new world record in the shot putt . |
| 22 | She probably had enough cash for a taxi , but the taxi habit still came hard to a girl from the sticks who was n't even used to being able to afford bus fare . |
| 23 | Saddam Hussein rose to rule Iraq in succession to a cousin from the Takriti clans , and depended upon cousins and near relatives to consolidate his hold on power . |
| 24 | Help yourself to a drink from the bar . |
| 25 | Nick put it to a yard from the pin . |
| 26 | It 's like listening to a performance from the furthermost point of the gallery . |
| 27 | These priority households were also entitled to a discount from the land element in the finished dwelling . |
| 28 | This derives to a degree from the presence of Englishman E. David Brewer , Vice-President and Managing Director . |
| 29 | More generally , this effect means that multinationals are cushioned to a degree from the effects of exchange rate shifts and other determinants of national competitiveness ( Lipsey and Kravis , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ We are building our own garden , thanks to a grant from the Merseyside Environmental Trust . |