Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acting on this belief , he has : taken one of the most outspoken current-affairs programmes , ‘ Vzglyad ’ ( Outlook ) , off the air ; confiscated the property of the independent news agency Interfax , which was saved from closure only by the intervention of Boris Yeltsin and the Moscow city council ; suspended a free-thinking television news show called ‘ TSN ’ ; and consigned Radio Russia , Mr Yeltsin 's mouthpiece , to a frequency where most of the population can not hear it begin its broadcasts with phrases like ‘ In another move reminiscent of Stalinism , President Gorbachev today … ’ |
| 2 | In 1774–80 for every British seaman who lost his life in battle , fifteen died of disease , while in 1779 Britain was preserved from invasion partly by the scurvy which swept the French and Spanish squadrons then for a time in control of the Channel . |
| 3 | Hidden from view upstairs in the house is the room where Lawrence of Arabia used to stay , with its photos , books and , now silently put away in a box , Shaw 's dentures . |
| 4 | In navigating the corner he had walked from shade straight into the blinding-white glare of the sun and , as her gallop had ceased , so the man also stopped dead , apparently dazzled despite the protection of a pair of sepia-tinted gold-rimmed glasses . |
| 5 | ‘ It must be stressed , however , ’ we noted , ‘ that the book has an optimistic tone , asserting that there is still much to be gained from life even in the quickening twilight years . ’ |
| 6 | Many lived in squalor and poverty , went short of food when times were hard and were kept from starvation only by the meagre income they gained from non-farming pursuits , whether sidework or the labour of family members working further afield on a temporary or permanent basis . |
| 7 | Laser printer toner cartridges can be ordered from Stationery only by the persons responsible for each machine . |