Example sentences of "from the [noun sg] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Galliéni returned to Paris , but later again reached Joffre by telephone and , with passionate argument , finally wrung from the Commander-in-Chief acceptance for his plan to strike north of the River Marne .
2 He secured permission from the Home Secretary for Lizzy to be disinterred but , unlike Berlioz , he could not face the grisly spectacle , and delegated the task to his lawyer .
3 This would require prior authorisation from the Home Secretary for any procedure ‘ likely to cause pain , suffering or distress of more than momentary duration or trivial intensity , which can not be alleviated ’ .
4 In such cases , we suggested that regulations made under section 19 of the 1988 Act , which allow disapplication of the provisions of the National Curriculum , should enable headteachers to exempt such pupils from the assessment requirements for English .
5 When Gower was dropped from the tour party for India , Dexter refused to answer questions on the decision and left new team manager Keith Fletcher to take the flak .
6 Correlations with time at junction , average speed over junction and the number of vehicles seen at the junction are calculated from the video record for 28 subjects only .
7 Again they must perform an infinite number of circuits to reach either pole , as their paths are loxodromes , from the sailing term for keeping to a constant bearing .
8 An information pack is available from the hospice office for any firm interested in entering a team or helping to sponsor the tournament , which hopes to raise more than £7,000 .
9 This property was built right on the water 's edge in the pretty harbour of Malcesine , just 10 minutes walk from the cablecar station for the ride up Monte Baldo for the most stunning views .
10 De Franco said that President Chamorro wanted closer co-ordination of long-term monetary and credit policies and to ensure a better response from the credit system for production needs .
11 Scene from the film Koyaanisqatsi for which Glass wrote the score
12 Lord Mayor , may I begin by congratulating so many from the majority group for taking the time to attend today 's Council meeting .
13 Persons in close contact with them at work or at their houses were drawn from the majority population for ‘ security reasons ’ .
14 Around this time they sent away some samples from the metal cathodes for examination .
15 Opposition from the Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights and from parliamentary Liberals and trade-union leaders focused on the growing threat to personal liberty .
16 Another popular aspect is the hotel 's bar where you can take a break from the midday sun for a welcome sandwich or toastie .
17 But as a consequence of all that work , we 've actually gained an additional five hundred and seventy pounds grant from the church commissioners , from the Scouts and from the Cathedral Council for this new additional work .
18 The large noble estates , sometimes helped by injections of finance from the compensation payments for the loss of labour services , transformed themselves into capitalist undertakings .
19 Randomisation was carried out in London by an independent statistician , who held the randomisation code and who also did an interim analysis of the mortality results from the Survival Study for the trial 's data-monitoring committee after a year of follow-up .
20 I left the bike in the shed and watched him from the shed door for a while , poised so that if he happened to wake up it would look as though I was just in the act of shutting the door .
21 A ‘ thank you ’ letter was received from the Octagon Club for the £50 donation received after the Spring Dance .
22 The idea was that since repetition is so good the pathways across the cortex ( hence trans cortical ) from the brain regions for perceiving speech to the brain regions for producing speech are intact .
23 We have had the example of Scotland , where we have suffered from the poll tax for a year longer than people in England and Wales , and much grief and sorrow have resulted .
24 Under these amendments the Public Security Corps would become part of a civilian ministry following the end of hostilities ; Supreme Court of Justice members would need to be elected by two-thirds of the Legislative Assembly ; and funding from the state budget for the judiciary would be guaranteed .
25 I can find my way up in the dark , or fetch a candle from the kitchen cupboard for myself .
26 After all , we have been reaping rewards from the vegetable garden for months : the soil ca n't go on and on providing if its own storehouse is not replenished .
27 The weather broke overnight and it blew hard from the south east for the following week which , while postponing our patrols to the north islands , was no great setback to our plans .
28 The heat , the danger , the moment were unforeseeable when she and Lally , arm in arm in giggling familiarity , watched from the nursery window for the boys ' arrival .
29 The Scottish women 's team led from the opening end for a comfortable victory over the defending champions .
30 SCHOOL INSPECTORS employed by local authorities are poorly equipped for their future role of monitoring the national curriculum , a report from the Audit Commission for Local Authorities says today .
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