Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] from [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was the purpose of my digression from anthropology to the sociology of monetary exchange . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Like the other office-holders , I am debarred by my office from membership of the professional conduct committees . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | It was reported on Dec. 31 that the Zambian Congress of Trade Unions had decided to switch its support from UNIP to the MMD . |
| 6 | His family made their money from investment in the railways . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As a retired person myself , I occasionally took my 90-year-old disabled mother in her wheelchair from Cockerton to the town centre . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That was how he had greeted her at Euston on her return from Ireland after the New Year . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Historically , what has happened is that the rock vanguard has shifted its focus from eroticism to the psychedelic powers of horror . |
| 18 | The Czechoslovak government faced a demand from Sudeten Germans for material compensation for their expulsion from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War . |
| 19 | The most extraordinary of the group was bought by the V & A in 1986 ( after the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art had halted its departure from Britain to a collection in North America ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For all its Wilton carpet , a Virage will speed its owner from 0–60mph in a shade over six seconds , and thence , constabulary allowing , to 155mph . |
| 22 | Doris is no stranger to the UK , having been resident at Duxford in the mid-1970s during its flight from India to the USA . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The civil division of the Order of the Bath is the jealously guarded preserve of the home civil service , so that every six months a new crop of bureaucrats begin making their way from Companion of the Bath to Knight Commander or Dame Commander to Knight Grand Cross . |
| 25 | It was on its way from Hampshire to a railway museum at Toddington , near Cheltenham . |
| 26 | It was on its way from Hampshire to a railway museum at Toddington , near Cheltenham . |
| 27 | The coach was on its way from Barcelona to the Expo 92 World Fair at Seville . |
| 28 | Every few minutes a truck thunders down the strategic Salang Highway on its way from Hiratan on the Soviet border to Kabul . |
| 29 | As refuge staff were still celebrating the royal windfall , the princess was on her way from Balmoral to the Trinity House hospice in Blackpool . |
| 30 | A main reason for their conversion from companies in the conventional form has been the maintenance of employment . |