Example sentences of "seek [noun] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fair conjecture that the Chelsea porcelain painters working from live plants sought subjects from the nearby Physic Garden , where they might find many impressive exotics flowering for the first time in this country . |
| 2 | Mature applicants , overseas applicants , and those offering UK qualifications other than SCE or GCE passes should also seek advice from the relevant faculty office . |
| 3 | But there were intimacies at the opposite end of the social scale — in which a barrow girl might fancy a young police constable , or a socially mobile ‘ buck ’ might seek advice from the local fount of authority and knowledge . |
| 4 | The DPP must now seek leave from the Divisional Court to take the appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 5 | If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides . |
| 6 | Mr Saville also admitted it was almost certain that his group would seek grants from the Welsh Office or the Welsh Development Agency for the reclamation of the site , which is scarred by toxic waste tips . |
| 7 | Children will also split parental affection with one being favoured by one parent and the other child seeking help from the other parent . |
| 8 | Co-incidental with the growth of judicial review by the domestic courts has been the growth in the volume of applications by private individuals seeking redress from the European Commission and Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg . |
| 9 | Media outlets , they say , only seek comments from the Catholic Primate Dr Cahal Daly and Church of Ireland Primate Dr Robin Eames on important political and social matters . |
| 10 | We seek cooperation from the Christian Conference of Asia ( CCA ) , the Federation of Asian Bishops ' Conference ( FABC ) , the Asia Region of WACC , and other Christian institutions in Asia . |
| 11 | The chub flit in and out of the weed like silent ghosts , grubbing for food , seeking shelter from the bright sun , and sometimes just playing around for the sheer hell of it . |
| 12 | But what is evident is that they often sought affection from the only source which under the circumstances was available — other boys . |
| 13 | However , the WRU is seeking clarification from the French Rugby Federation before dealing with Llewellyn . |
| 14 | When the case was presented to the commanding officer of the unit involved , he sought advice from the appropriate Army legal branch , which advised what charges , if any , were supported by the evidence . |
| 15 | There were dwarf fan palms where lazy lizards sought shade from the hot sun and thick-leaved aloes which Ruth skirted with care — the points were like needles . |
| 16 | The region around Chimoio is swollen by 400,000 people who sought refuge from the civil war . |
| 17 | In Britain , the tight financial regime imposed on local councils and the reluctance of central government to take on any new expenditure makes it necessary to seek funds from the private sector . |
| 18 | After gathering momentum over the past six months under the guidance of an Interim Action Board while fundamental matters such as constitution , scope , budgets and organisational structures were determined , DISC is now poised to seek confirmation from the BSI Board that DISC may be formally established within the BSI framework . |
| 19 | And if you want to run a business that involves shipping an unwieldy machine across Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , servicing orders from London , New York and Japan , and travelling to Glasgow and London to seek commissions from the smartest fashion houses , then Back Road in Stromness is probably as good a place as any to do it from . |
| 20 | Under the new legislation , leaders of state enterprise unions were forced to seek approval from the Interior Ministry to register their organizations as " associations " . |
| 21 | It is advisable that the social worker should have at least a knowledge of the laws of various churches on sexual and marital affairs which enables him or her to seek advice from the right source if a client might be affected . |
| 22 | Qualifications obtained some years previously are not automatically acceptable , and applicants are strongly advised to seek advice from the relevant faculty office before applying . |
| 23 | If the bad image of the pawnbroker kept would-be customers away , many of the small debtors would have been even more reluctant to seek relief from the grander money-lender whose role was not so much , it seems , to relieve the impoverished of misery as to maintain the well-off in their excesses . |