Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] from [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 As a loss maker , Provincial received the bulk of its income from grants from the PTEs , and from the government in the form of the Public Service Obligation ( PSO ) .
2 The relationship between constructs 1 and 5 shows the extent to which the dimension ‘ masculine-feminine ’ is perceived along the same plane as ‘ savage-civilized ’ with the positive ( savage ) pole deriving its assonances from aspects of the jungle , snake and moon .
3 Lucien had never seen an Ixmaritian priestess in the flesh before , but he recognised her robes from illustrations in the sacred texts of Paradouze : a long green gown of soft linen covered by a darker green tunic of embroidered , stiffened cotton .
4 A main reason for their conversion from companies in the conventional form has been the maintenance of employment .
5 The common link was that they were long-term drug abusers , and they all bought their heroin from pushers in the streets of San Jose and Watsonville , in June and July .
6 Mr Heslop was replying to evidence supporting Mr Venables ' attempt to continue an injunction preventing his removal from Spurs pending the hearing of his Companies Court plea for the right to buy out Mr Sugar 's 47.8pc holding in the club .
7 It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions .
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