Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was the purpose of my digression from anthropology to the sociology of monetary exchange . |
| 2 | My expectations from analogy with the past , like a dog 's , are sometimes realized , sometimes disappointed ; if the mechanism were not often effective it would not as it evolved have been spared by natural selection ; but I , as a rational being , want to be able to judge when it is reliable . |
| 3 | It took an act of will to think of cool winds on hilltops or the pattern of water-shadows over wave-carved sand — things which I have always thought epitomise clarity and freshness and helped to divert my brain from dwelling on the contents of my stomach . |
| 4 | Like the other office-holders , I am debarred by my office from membership of the professional conduct committees . |
| 5 | They instantly felt less grown up , whereas Minton had encouraged them from the start to tackle imaginative work by giving them articles from Lilliput with the illustration blocked out and the instruction that they were to do their own . |
| 6 | Five ministers resigned from the Chandra Shekhar government in February 1991 following their disqualification from membership of the Lok Sabha under the anti-defection laws [ see pp. 38005-06 ] . |
| 7 | It was reported on Dec. 31 that the Zambian Congress of Trade Unions had decided to switch its support from UNIP to the MMD . |
| 8 | His family made their money from investment in the railways . ’ |
| 9 | THE RUSSIAN government threatened to resign yesterday if parliament prised its fingers from control of the country 's economic reforms , a move that would plunge the country into its worst crisis since last August 's coup . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 12 | As a retired person myself , I occasionally took my 90-year-old disabled mother in her wheelchair from Cockerton to the town centre . |
| 13 | Theirs was not the insecurity of peasants , at the mercy of periodic — and to be honest , often more murderous — catastrophes such as drought and famine , but capable of predicting with some accuracy how a poor man or woman would spend most days of their lives from birth to the graveyard . |
| 14 | FERGIE is throwing a Christmas party for the people who gave her the courage to get over her fall from grace in the Royal Family . |
| 15 | For Arsenal , on the other hand , it seemed to be the night which confirmed their fall from grace as the Premier League 's early season favourites . |
| 16 | Coaches are popular in the US but this , by my theory , is the reason for their fall from grace as the world 's greatest players . |
| 17 | That was how he had greeted her at Euston on her return from Ireland after the New Year . |
| 18 | However , under intense international pressure at the Geneva conference , supported by US President George Bush 's Oct. 2 announcement that the USA was prepared to participate in enforcing the ban , Karadzic finally on Oct. 13 agreed to the grounding of all combat aircraft and their transfer from Bosnia to the FRY ( Serbia being the only party to have combat aircraft ) . |
| 19 | For the accompanying media corps , swelled by correspondents from the Atlantic to the Urals , there were long hours and early starts , countless mid-air prawn sandwiches , several overnight stays , two hot meals and just one real story — when Kinnock 's press secretary , Julie Hall , committed professional suicide in order to save her leader from embarassment in the row over who leaked Jennifer Bennett 's name . |
| 20 | Historically , what has happened is that the rock vanguard has shifted its focus from eroticism to the psychedelic powers of horror . |
| 21 | The Czechoslovak government faced a demand from Sudeten Germans for material compensation for their expulsion from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War . |
| 22 | The question becomes urgent following the abrupt announcement on April 5th that the Vietnamese will withdraw all their troops from Kampuchea by the end of September . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There is , indeed , a divine magnitude to this demi-continent of nearly four million square miles , almost half of which constitutes the backbone of the country — the famous Canadian Shield , a range of ancient rocklands ( the world 's oldest ) which arcs from Labrador in the east , through Quebec far into southern Ontario , thence piercing north for 2000 miles into the Arctic itself . |
| 25 | However , the growing budget deficit and lax credit policies led to its devaluation from parity with the rouble and caused a near breakdown in trade between Ukraine and Russia . |
| 26 | He urged the Western governments which withdrew their diplomats from Kabul on the eve of the Soviet military withdrawal in January to send them back and stop the psychological war they were waging against his government . |
| 27 | Doris is no stranger to the UK , having been resident at Duxford in the mid-1970s during its flight from India to the USA . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This prophecy came true when in 1870 the Dingwall & Skye Railway opened its line from Dingwall on the eastern seaboard to Strome Ferry on the west on the shores of the waters of Loch Carron . |
| 30 | David Hirst , Paul Parker and Martin Keown have put their comebacks from injury to the Premier League test and all appear ready to take up the invitation issued by Taylor after last month 's 1-1 draw against Norway . |