Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The bank made shipments from Timbuktu in the Middle Ages , when African gold was at its finest . ’ |
| 2 | The Sikorsky which had flown Hauser from Helsinki to the isolated rendezvous in the Finnish woods stood inside the clearing , its rotors motionless . |
| 3 | This was because it amounted to a transfer back to X of property in the car ( because Y 's cheque had not been met ) in return for X waiving any right to enforce payment from Y. At the time of the repossession , X was unaware of Y's sale to Z and thus by repossessing the car with Y 's acquiescence , X obtained ownership of it by virtue of section 25(1) of the 1893 Act ( i.e. section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Question 12 Should the Council normally exercise its discretion not to make a grant from the compensation fund where the application has already received payment from SIF to the full extent of 1 million ? |
| 5 | ‘ My brief is to channel funds from Britain into the Province . |
| 6 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |
| 7 | This in turn strips aluminium from clay in the soil to form aluminium hydroxide . |
| 8 | The inclusion of this peculiar detail consistently throughout one picture strongly suggests that that picture is a direct copy of another man 's work ; and the Centauromachy and Amazonomachy will at least include elements from pictures by the same man . |
| 9 | That same month , a large group of anti-Francoist guerrillas entered Spain from France through the Val d'Aran , in the Pyrenees . |
| 10 | The need to hire coaches arose from the fact the Supporters ' Club actively discouraged membership from fans under the age of 18 . |
| 11 | He dismissed protests from Friends of the Earth as ‘ scaremongering ’ . |
| 12 | This drew protests from residents of the Awlad Amira oases , which were indeed more populous but which were within easier reach of the hospital in Zawiya . |
| 13 | It is likely to attract criticism from members on the grounds that it exploits the plight of the unemployed by using them as cheap labour at the same time as removing them from the unemployment statistics . |
| 14 | Rostov was one of a very few special exceptions to the Imperial edict which excluded commoners from access to the bi-annual treatment which was necessary for administration of the drug , but he saw no reason to apprise the Adjudicator of the fact . |
| 15 | Steven , who re-joined Rangers from Marseille in the summer , says : ‘ Pele is a very unpredictable player . |
| 16 | Sir John Pope Hennessy , an Irish adventurer , successfully claimed immunity from arrest for the recovery of the huge debts he accumulated while the Member for King 's County in the 1860s . |
| 17 | In 1672 , for example , the Dutch Cromwell , de Witt , was torn limb from limb in the street by a frenzied mob , and in 1986 I was beaten up in a bar . |
| 18 | Protracted bargaining , Williamson argues , is less likely for three reasons : people feel part of a unified organization , and so are less inclined to argue ; management has the right to demand information from workers in the organization , and therefore can restrict opportunism ; and , ultimately , management can use its authority to guillotine any dispute that threatens to be prolonged . |
| 19 | The competition involved pupils from schools throughout the area competing in darts , dominoes , draughts , chess and table tennis . |
| 20 | In the latter I was shocked to find letters from contenders for the distinction of Nottingham 's oldest graduate who were only a year or two older than I. Maybe I ought to record some of my own recollections as a student in the Physics Department of University College Nottingham during the academic years 1928 to 1932 . |
| 21 | Respondents were asked to say whether they had actually received assistance from relatives at the time when their own children were born , and also to indicate whether they would turn to relatives for support in three hypothetical situations , of varying degrees of seriousness : to borrow tools or materials ; if the respondent and/or his wife were ill for a couple of days ; if illness lasted several weeks . |
| 22 | There was also little difference in the proportions who had actually received help from kin at the time of childbirth . |
| 23 | ICI supplies phenol from Billingham to the Trafford Park plant , which also buys adipic acid , propylene and small quantities of glycols from Wilton . |
| 24 | It seems likely that they received support from parties within the Uí Néill territory in Ireland , even from among the Dalriadic Scots and perhaps the Picts , anxious to have the bellicose Ecgfrith replaced by a more pacific figure . |
| 25 | The depute-fiscal , Alison Gibson , explained how Lawrie had collected rent from tenants at the housing estate run by the Thistle Foundation , but kept some of the cash for herself . |
| 26 | The magazine — redesigned last year — received a certificate of merit in the competition which attracted entries from companies throughout the north of England . |
| 27 | Over the past year , SCOTVEC has actively sought feedback from centres on the design of the first phase of general SVQs . |
| 28 | The Council proposed to produce a revised document by July 1976 and receive applications from institutions in the following academic year — a timetable that in the event was overshot by some three years . |
| 29 | Although they receive notification from education of the intention to assess a child , they are uncertain of their role , and so , with other pressing priorities , they tend not to give it high priority . |
| 30 | This was a sardonic reference to the distance which has sometimes separated Levein from selection by the national coach , though the idea of McQueen , last capped against Wales in 1981 , being recalled has turned out not to be so fanciful after all in the midst of the worst injury crisis of Roxburgh 's association with Scotland . |