Example sentences of "from the [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 More prosaically , resistance to delegation may stem from the conviction that one is being over exploited , being asked to do considerably more work but without any increase in pay .
2 Resentment was also fuelled by an incident in the eastern city of Santa Cruz in July , when a DEA agent shot and wounded a Bolivian in a bar , but then disappeared from the country before he could stand trial .
3 6 people were removed from the country when they signed a paper agreeing to leave the country voluntarily , however due to the fact that they did not speak English they were unaware of what they were signing .
4 It may mean a 5 a.m. start from the country if she is to have her regular swim before going into the office , but if she is going to see WHS in Swindon or Heathcote in Warwick , it is more convenient for her to stay in Gloucestershire than to come back to London .
5 Stephen Smith was on a weekend break away from the home when he sniffed the gas .
6 A disabled woman in Wigan has won £10,000 damages from the council after it failed to carry out necessary adaptations to her home .
7 It should always be remembered that the official takes his instructions from the council and its committees only and not from individual councillors .
8 And I they were addressed to him and they were from the council and I simply said , er wrote on the outside erm no longer here , address not known .
9 And if they 're from the council or whatever , or whoever does the roads or whatever they 'll probably get in contact with him again .
10 and was to do with what the rights would be erm in terms of benefits and in terms of compensation from the council when they moved out .
11 In some cases , such as defence or law and order , we all stand to benefit from the service and it would be difficult to envisage how it could be financed other than out of direct taxation .
12 No doubt to the consternation of the parties and their representatives the order announced by the bench was substantially different from the order that they had been invited to make by the consenting parties .
13 Another Free Presbyterian minister , Austin Allen , resigned from the Order because it would not accept Free Presbyterian ministers as district chaplains .
14 It must be moved from the receptor after they have connected in order that the receptor is not stimulated indefinitely .
15 If there are several competing paths , only those paths that can be matched to long words are continued , and a short word will only be retrieved from the buffer if none of the possible paths can be matched to a long word .
16 I watched the smoke rising from the liquid as it changed colour from red to purple and at last to green .
17 The daylight was fleeing from the wilderness that he could not see but whose emptiness beyond the shuttered windows he understood .
18 Since we are satisfied that by the operation of the Judicature Act 1873 and its successor statutes High Court judges are sitting as the High Court when they exercise their jurisdiction as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary matters , there is nothing in Lord Diplock 's speech in that case which derogates from the proposition that they are not susceptible to judicial review , which is available , as Lord Diplock said , at p. 384 , as a remedy for mistakes of law made by inferior courts and tribunals only , and not for mistakes of law made by the High Court itself .
19 More than this ; few dissent from the proposition that it is legislatively supreme , that is to say , that it is competent to make or unmake any law whatever , and that no other body can impede its will so to do .
20 The argument must begin from the proposition that our body is our own : it is our private zone , and respect for privacy and personal autonomy both support this .
21 Like Saussure 's Cours , The Meaning of Meaning starts from the proposition that there is an essential disjunction between language and reality , that it is a superstition to believe that ‘ words are in some way parts of things ’ ( Ogden and Richards 1936 : 14 ) .
22 In this case , they suggest , the hearer is encouraged to think of all the implicatures that the speaker could reasonably have expected someone to have derived from the proposition that his childhood days are gone , and then assume that there are still further implicatures that the speaker wants to back .
23 You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all .
24 But after the release of Mob Rule in 1980 , Allen retreated from the scene and his books became increasingly collectable classics .
25 However Ophioscolex can be distinguished from the Ophiotominae because it lacks the comma shaped arm spine articulation on the lateral arm plate , and by having the distal dorsal spines transformed into hooks .
26 I know from the death-stiffening that she was there before six .
27 This means that the ‘ brain' of the synth has to have a certain amount of waveform information from the guitar before it can determine an actual pitch and synthesise that information accordingly .
28 But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit .
29 I remember joking about us going down last year when we were briefly third from the bottom but there 's no funny side this time . ’
30 If I shift in my harness and lean nervously backwards I can see my partner creeping nearer on a wall of loosely compacted rubble , brushing and blowing the sand from the holds as he swings upwards .
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