Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 31 | Demands for change from examinations boards and advisers are accepted with philosophical resignation ’ ( p. 31 ) . |
| 32 | Prison regimes are subject to pressures for change from many quarters and several aspects of prison practices are currently under review . |
| 33 | ‘ We hope for support from telecomms as well as computer companies and users ’ . |
| 34 | As US officials produced evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and appealed for support from other Latin American countries in their campaign to oust him , their case was weakened by evidence that the US had been an important supporter in the general 's rise to power and that the CIA had known about his trafficking for years . |
| 35 | Late on Wednesday night , a man purporting to be General Noriega spoke on the pro-regime National Radio , urging all Panamanians ‘ to keep up the resistance ’ and appealing for support from the outside world . |
| 36 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Binged and vomited four times 2–3 Keeping her diary regularly 4 Returned home and told her family about problems with eating 5 Stopped weighing herself so frequently ; binged and vomited three times 6 Ate breakfast for first time 7 Allowed herself to ask for support from friends 8–9 Binged and vomited once each week 10 Expressed her feelings of sadness in the group for the first time 11–12 Ate three regular meals per day ; binges much smaller 13 A week free from bingeing and vomiting 14 A week free from bingeing and vomiting |
| 37 | Ipswich man of the match Bryn Kerr is tackled and looks for support from flanker James Bisdee . |
| 38 | Cropper looked for support from the African Institution for the removal of the West Indians ' financial advantage in the sugar trade , privately assuring Zachary Macaulay that the introduction of free-labour sugar was opposed by the planters because they knew it ‘ will destroy their System of cultivation , tho ’ it can be proved to be the only means of establishing West Indian property on a lasting foundation . |
| 39 | Its leader , Fatos Nano , is looking for support from China , once Albania 's closest ally . |
| 40 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |
| 41 | It means that necessarily there have been variations in people 's need for support from their kin , and in the capacity of kin to provide it . |
| 42 | In chapter 3 I shall look more closely at the impact of these demographic patterns on the need for support from relatives . |
| 43 | Equally people 's need for support from relatives specifically has to be related to whatever alternative provisions exist at any given time . |
| 44 | Consequently , Reagan , in looking for support from conservative Republicans , ran up against the reality that many of those same people felt bound by obligations to Nixon , who duly won the nomination on the first ballot at the Convention . |
| 45 | The Ecumenical Centre for Human Rights in Haïti has called for support from the world 's press to focus international attention on the violence that is being used to muzzle the country 's media . |
| 46 | And there will be opportunities to apply for support from the British Film Institute and elsewhere erm in order that we can expand er what we 're doing in that area and I , I just wanted to let the board know about that and to say that erm er this is the route that I 'm currently taking and erm I will be reporting to them when there are specific developments and that I hope that you approve of er me attempting to expand our provision in this area . |
| 47 | It was probably through exasperation with the lack of Anglo-American concessions that , in a speech in July 1946 , Molotov appealed for support from the German people themselves . |
| 48 | Barbara Rashbass , director of the foundation , says that charitable bodies are entitled to decide how to allocate their funds and that unsuccessful applicants are free to apply for support from other medical research charities , none of which has similar restrictions . |
| 49 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 50 | For sure Cabinets were made and unmade on the floor of the House , but the Cabinet for its part could unmake the House of Commons because it enjoyed the right to ask for a dissolution and after the election it could look for support from amongst members in a new House of Commons . |
| 51 | On Jan. 21 , the Serbian government initiated negotiations for the continuation of Yugoslavia , hoping for support from Montenegro , Macedonia , and Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 52 | At a reception hosted by the mayor of Paris , Jacques Chirac , Yeltsin appealed for support from the West for his reforms , warning that if Russia 's economic reform plan failed , " a dictator could surface " . |
| 53 | Defence Secretary Rifkind is reported to be grateful for support from the fourteen military minded Conservatives whose confidential letter to the Prime Minister was somehow left lying on a copying machine for a Labour researcher to find , but he is irritated by the leak , an insider murmurs that Malcolm 's notching up black marks for the future . |
| 54 | There is no doubt at all that where there are reductions er , particularly at the edge of our statutory responsibilities , this inevitably we know , generates more demands for support from central services , particularly legal , where we are then brought into dispute , and there are complaint machinery , and other processes brought into play . |
| 55 | He says one problem is that the new scheme for support from the DOT involves putting packages together that must cost at least £2 million and it 's quite hard to find a package of cycle-ways that actually cost that much ! |
| 56 | ‘ We went to local council meetings to ask for support from the councillors rather than try to stop the hunt meetings , ’ she adds . |
| 57 | Dew member Dr Robert Upshall , who started the drive for support from seven Darlington 's worldwide , welcomed the news saying : ‘ Their mayor remarks on their regret for destroying their heritage . |
| 58 | In exchange for support from civil servants in resisting the cuts of the Treasury or in presenting its investment programme sympathetically to the government , an enterprise might refrain from padding out its capital applications ; again the electricity industry provides an example ( Hannah 1982 : 44 ) . |
| 59 | To send a letter in due course to ask for support from Council of Churches in the UK and Ireland . |
| 60 | Not only are there some excellent buys to be had in the traditionally exclusive Champagne market , but wine enthusiasts are beginning to discover that there are some superb choices to be had among ‘ méthode champenoise ’ wines such as Cava from Spain — Sainsbury 's Cava , £4.75 . |