Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sikorsky which had flown Hauser from Helsinki to the isolated rendezvous in the Finnish woods stood inside the clearing , its rotors motionless . |
| 2 | Question 12 Should the Council normally exercise its discretion not to make a grant from the compensation fund where the application has already received payment from SIF to the full extent of 1 million ? |
| 3 | The need to hire coaches arose from the fact the Supporters ' Club actively discouraged membership from fans under the age of 18 . |
| 4 | Sir John Pope Hennessy , an Irish adventurer , successfully claimed immunity from arrest for the recovery of the huge debts he accumulated while the Member for King 's County in the 1860s . |
| 5 | In 1672 , for example , the Dutch Cromwell , de Witt , was torn limb from limb in the street by a frenzied mob , and in 1986 I was beaten up in a bar . |
| 6 | Respondents were asked to say whether they had actually received assistance from relatives at the time when their own children were born , and also to indicate whether they would turn to relatives for support in three hypothetical situations , of varying degrees of seriousness : to borrow tools or materials ; if the respondent and/or his wife were ill for a couple of days ; if illness lasted several weeks . |
| 7 | There was also little difference in the proportions who had actually received help from kin at the time of childbirth . |
| 8 | The depute-fiscal , Alison Gibson , explained how Lawrie had collected rent from tenants at the housing estate run by the Thistle Foundation , but kept some of the cash for herself . |
| 9 | Over the past year , SCOTVEC has actively sought feedback from centres on the design of the first phase of general SVQs . |
| 10 | This was a sardonic reference to the distance which has sometimes separated Levein from selection by the national coach , though the idea of McQueen , last capped against Wales in 1981 , being recalled has turned out not to be so fanciful after all in the midst of the worst injury crisis of Roxburgh 's association with Scotland . |
| 11 | It has heard and seen evidence from witnesses including the minister of agriculture , fisheries and food , the chairman of the NRA , the Chemical Industries Association and the Institute of Wastes Management , and has recommended that the government take the fourth option of its consultation paper ( Chem . |
| 12 | It was this principle which had saved Virgin from collapse in the wake of the Customs and Excise fine ten years before ; it was the principle , Branson believed , that would now secure the company 's future . |
| 13 | A BUSINESSMAN has collected £2,000 from others in the business community to mark the retirement of a bank manager be believes may have saved his company . |
| 14 | Before I examine some of the ways in which recent analyses of literacy practices in a number of disciplines have taken account of these political and ideological factors , and have implicitly challenged the model of literacy put forward by Goody , it is important to recognise the extent to which many of Goody 's arguments and those of the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy have derived support from assumptions within the specific field of linguistics . |
| 15 | This Clyde ‘ Puffer ’ has brought whisky from Islay to the bonded warehouses at Port Dundas on the Forth & Clyde Canal . |
| 16 | One of the particularly tragic consequences of the war has been the way it has distracted attention from events in the USSR and Eastern Europe , just when it was needed most . |
| 17 | Despite the conditions , the company halved debt from £109m at the end of 1990 to £52½m today . |
| 18 | They said Unprofor had proposed that the corridor run east from Tuzla to the border town of Zvornik and then south to Srebrenica and that there should be no military operations in the corridor while the air bridge was in place . |
| 19 | But Bob Bagnell , who has imported charcoal from Indonesia for the last four years , says his source is not endangering the environment . |
| 20 | Rupert Widdicombe reports on the revolution that has taken Deportivo from obscurity to the top of the league |
| 21 | He may not have won a championship , but he had taken Leeds from bottom of the table to fourth , their highest position ever , in a much stiffer competition than the Southern League . |
| 22 | At the top of the pile was a beautifully typed essay from Sheikh on the causes of the English Civil War . |
| 23 | ‘ Cleared bramble from area by the big beech . |
| 24 | Before the broadcasts , both Brian Ross of NBC News and Pierre Salinger of ABC News had contacted Gregory W. Buhler , deputy general counsel of Pan Am , to inform him that they had obtained evidence from sources within the United States government that a DEA undercover operation was involved in the crash of Flight 103 . |
| 25 | On Oct. 24 the Governor of Hong Kong , Sir David Wilson , excluded the colony 's popularly elected leaders from seats on the Executive Council ( Exco ) , the administration 's most powerful policy-making body , selecting instead 10 conservatives and moderates . |
| 26 | Applicants with appropriate previous study and/or experience are given exemption from part of the Course and students wishing to transfer from another institution are welcomed , subject to numbers . |