Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My brief is to channel funds from Britain into the Province . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The British Veterinary Association subsequently urged the government to discourage farmers from breeding from the offspring of " mad cows " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I am beginning to collect stories from workers about the circumstances in which this happens , and there is no shortage of them . |
| 17 | Where George Eliot tends simply to employ terms from painting in the description of her great houses , Henry James , for whom they have retreated a stage further , actually presents them in the two dimensions of paint . |
| 18 | Relief sources said government forces had set up roadblocks to prevent refugees from flooding into the capital , Kigali. — Reuter |