Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ My brief is to channel funds from Britain into the Province . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When a large number of British nationals are killed or seriously injured in an aircraft crash , ministers have to answer questions from MPs about the event and , of course , ministers look to the government aircraft accidents investigation organisation for information on the subject . |
| 8 | Please note that I can not undertake to reply to individual queries from readers however I will do my best to answer questions from readers through the medium of this column . |
| 9 | There was also the undoubted administrative convenience of having the experience and structure of the former county boroughs to draw on when establishing departments in the new authorities : a district without this advantage would need to create departments from scratch amid the other upheavals of reorganisation . |
| 10 | This scabious was the first one to reach Britain from Italy in the early seventeenth century , and was known as ‘ The Mournful Widow ’ . |
| 11 | Other Democrats , however , welcomed Clinton 's unrepentant stance as further indication of his courage and as a demonstration of his willingness to resist pressure from minorities within the Democratic Party . |
| 12 | One important corollary of the decision that obscene material must have more serious effects than arousing feelings of revulsion is the doctrine that material which in fact shocks and disgusts may not be obscene , because its effect is to discourage readers from indulgence in the immorality so unseductively portrayed . |
| 13 | This ban did not include Madeira and so British merchants were able to ship wine from Madeira to the American colonies . |
| 14 | The authority of government was still exercised more directly through the law courts than in later centuries , and the authority of the Lords of Trade was underlined when they received the power to hear appeals from courts in the colonies . |
| 15 | The British Veterinary Association subsequently urged the government to discourage farmers from breeding from the offspring of " mad cows " . |
| 16 | The trial had been remarkable , since the court had visited a prison in Italy in order to hear evidence from members of the BR , who were in custody there . |
| 17 | Some who had tried to steal food from farms behind the Serb lines less than half a mile away had been shot dead . |
| 18 | The South Wales authorities have also joined forces with those in South West England to press for a through rail link with the Tunnel thus avoiding the need to cross London from Paddington to the Waterloo terminal , and for the electrification of the main lines from Paddington to Bristol and Penzance , Paddington to Swansea , and Waterloo to Exeter . |
| 19 | Many credit cards can now be used to draw cash from ATMs around the world . |
| 20 | In short , wage inflation operates not only to divert resources from investment in the country 's manufacturing capacity but also to make borrowing and exporting more and more difficult . |
| 21 | If an investigation requires embryos to be sexed and chromosome preparations are considered unhelpful due , for example , to the Y chromosome not being distinctive , or efforts to C-band are not considered worthwhile , it is possible to separate females from males by the presence or absence of sex chromatin . |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman cares to consider examples from south of the border , he will see that trusts there are cutting waiting lists , employing more doctors , treating more patients and providing a wider range of services at times convenient to patients . |
| 23 | In the searing Saudi heat the steel plates in the boots , designed to protect soldiers from stakes in the jungle , heated up like a blacksmith 's anvil . |
| 24 | Meanwhile Kay 's decision , for which he was officially reprimanded by the UN [ see p. 38451 ] , to send material from Baghdad to the United States State Department rather than to UN officials , was defended by Blix in Vienna on Oct. 4 on the grounds that " improvisation is necessary in some situations " . |
| 25 | So we have bent our efforts these last three months to speed people from Rhodesia to the MRA World Assembly at Caux . |
| 26 | Other possible line-speed improvements , including a new curve at Carstairs , near Lanark , to speed trains from Glasgow to the East coast , are thought by railway observers to be unlikely in view of the funding shortage . |
| 27 | None of these articles referred to the activities of the Parents ' Rights Group , to the joblessness and homelessness that had caused lesbians and gays to seek support from councils in the first place , to the findings of the Gay Teenage Group survey about the intimidation and isolation of lesbian and gay teenagers in state schools , to the menace of fundamentalism — or to any other feature of our oppression . |
| 28 | Indeed , it only recognized the PLO as a substantive interlocutor for the Palestinian people after world condemnation of its decision to bar Arafat from entry to the United States to address the United Nations in New York in December 1988 , and after he had addressed its General Assembly in Geneva instead . |
| 29 | The line was built in 1902 , mainly to convey lead from mines in the valley . |
| 30 | It was sent a dossier detailing incidents which UCAN claims provides evidence of a campaign to drive Protestants from areas along the border and in Belfast . |