Example sentences of "[noun] from [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the restriction sought to prevent the defendant from taking employment with a competitor in the general PVC calendering field it was held to be too wide . |
| 2 | In his address to the assembled Reichstag at the Nuremberg Party Rally on 15 September 1935 , Hitler took up the ‘ Jewish Question , in a major public speech for the first time since becoming Reich Chancellor , recommending acceptance of the three laws placed before it — the ‘ Flag law ’ and the two notorious anti-Jewish ‘ Nuremberg Laws ’ ( the Reich Citizenship Law , preventing Jews from becoming citizens of the Reich , and the ‘ Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour ’ , banning marriage and sexual relations between Jews and ‘ aryans ’ ) . |
| 3 | Conversely , if restrictions on access and use are too draconian , this may discourage potential beneficiaries of the research from attempting consultations through the library system . |
| 4 | BBC Good Food is available on tape from Talking Newspapers For The Blind , . |
| 5 | Aid donors had recently taken a tough stance in particular with the Sudanese government for preventing relief aircraft from reaching areas in the largely Christian south , where the civil war against the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) was at its height ; the Sudanese had claimed that such relief was being used to aid the rebels . |
| 6 | Sequences from flanking regions of the 16S rRNA gene , 259 bases upstream and 328 bases downstream , were searched for transcription signals , structural genes or other significant sequences based on the data available for eubacteria and other archaea . |
| 7 | The company is faced with estimated claims of £165 million from banks and building societies that have suffered losses from repossessing homes during the recession . |
| 8 | Nixon was less than eighteen months from becoming President of the United States , but when he was received by Ceauşescu he was very much a political has-been . |
| 9 | Hyperbolic perhaps , but Dr Dickson 's analysis of the structure of debt holding confirms that some degree of transfer from taxpaying land-holders to a class of debt-holding financiers was a characteristic of the public finance system . |
| 10 | For example , estimates for the implicit marginal social benefit from saving life in the UK range from 20 million in the case of building regulations introduced after the Ronan Point disaster to 50 for a rarely used test in pregnant women that might prevent some still-births . |
| 11 | Other examples are restraining a child from throwing bricks in a nursery , restraining another from overturning furniture and others from biting their wrists , head banging and the like . |
| 12 | v. Chilton , the Court of Appeal held that a threat by A , a trading association , to put B , one of its members , on a ‘ stop list ’ ( which would prevent B from getting goods from the members of the association ) unless B paid a sum of money for having broken a rule of the association was not a tort . |
| 13 | In so doing , he avenged a 16–13 defeat by Parrott at Preston a year ago and prevented the 28-year-old Liverpudlian from knocking Hendry off the top of the world rankings . |
| 14 | It also assumes that the taxpayer 's forbearance from taking action in the overseas country was productive of profit to the taxpayer in that country — an assumption which their Lordships are not prepared to make . |
| 15 | The introduction of a second asset means that we have to take account of the capital market equilibrium condition : the return from holding stocks of the natural resource must equal the return to physical capital . |
| 16 | The limit on the amount which can be earned while receiving ICA effectively discourages carers from retaining contact with the labour market . |
| 17 | A hollow hooray for Hollywood Joan McAlpine detects a cynical streak among the film-makers who make fortunes from bringing violence to the screen |
| 18 | To get round the fact that the CSMA/CD carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection protocol prevents two nodes from transmitting data at the same time , so that video signals could get interrupted , isochronous Ethernet time-stamps the packets so they can be guaranteed to arrive at the recipient 's computer at the same time . |
| 19 | A robot can do many different things from taking care of a baby to building a spaceship . |
| 20 | We soon reach Hungerford and Rob 's bridge which is so low that he usually gets cramp from bending flat on the boat . |
| 21 | These fenders rise and fall with the lock water level and prevent ships ' hulls from making contact with the concrete lock walls . |
| 22 | The Bank of England 's quarterly bulletin ( 19 December 1985 ) declared that , unless there were an unexpected and big change in attitudes , excessive growth of pay would prevent the United Kingdom from taking advantage of an improving world economic environment . |
| 23 | Taking lecture notes demands a different technique from taking notes from the printed page ( see Chapter 8 on more effective reading and Chapter 9 on taking notes from reading ) . |
| 24 | The past six months have also seen a flurry of administrative guidance , including arbitrary changes in accounting rules designed to prevent institutions from selling shares at a loss or even recognising their diminished value in their books . |
| 25 | On Aug. 18 Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata had attempted to restore confidence by announcing a series of measures aimed at discouraging financial institutions from selling shares until the end of September , and allowing them to postpone the reporting of unrealised losses on share holdings until the end of the financial year , in March 1993 . |
| 26 | On Aug. 2 officials from the US Immigration and Naturalization Service lifted an order which prevented Imelda Marcos from leaving Manhattan without the prior permission of the US Justice Department . |
| 27 | Any mobile traffic offence involving a caravan will involve an automatic five year ban from towing caravans in the future . |
| 28 | The fact that I was only 14 and under age by four years ( and covered in bruises from playing football with the lads ) did n't matter . |
| 29 | I was only fourteen and under age by four years ( and covered in bruises from playing football with the lads ) . |
| 30 | Retrospective conversions are migrating segments of our heritage from degrading media to a new medium that offers advantages which may prove illusory as the medium or the access mechanisms become obsolete . |