Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late in 1867 , despite calls for resistance from among his more conservative supporters , he formally returned political authority to the emperor , but this move proved inadequate to appease his more extreme opponents , who argued that while the Tokugawa continued to control more than 25 per cent of the country they were bound to play the dominant role in councils of state . |
| 2 | The mother was knitting something for seamen from coloured string . |
| 3 | Look out for products from companies such as Marshalls who have an attractive range of paving from the rugged , riven-faced textures of Heritage through to the seven shades of the brick-sized Keyblock system . |
| 4 | We 've seen this week that there 's a demand for products from our region in the States . |
| 5 | An adult of 472 gastric emptying tests carried out over a 10 year period was performed to discover the reasons for requests from consultant clinicians , their anticipation of the results of tests , and the influence of the results upon the subsequent management of their patients . |
| 6 | The Institute has simply attempted to distinguish between returns from investing activities and those derived from operating cash flows . |
| 7 | Many other women I spoke to told me that for protection from racial attacks it was essential to have Asian neighbours . |
| 8 | It is only two months since the American arm of Quintex , the media group put together by Australian Christopher Skase , had to file for protection from its creditors under bankruptcy laws . |
| 9 | The administration has admitted that the American economy is in recession , which will make hard-pressed industries more vociferous in their demands for protection from ‘ unfair competition ’ . |
| 10 | After months of teetering on the brink , David Reed has filed for protection from his creditors . |
| 11 | They recognise that arguments for a fair system of taxation and benefits , for protection from exploitation and discrimination , and for help for the unemployed , are not only moral issues but questions about the cohesion and security of the whole community . |
| 12 | For if the former , compared to the latter , are indeed quite different types of people , then maybe we should stop looking to our political authorities and criminal justice system for protection from those beneath us in impoverished urban neighbourhoods . |
| 13 | Danger , from the Piaroa point of view , is from the predatory activities of beings from other worlds , and the responsibility for protection from them is in the hands of the shamanic ruwatu . |
| 14 | In 1992 Olympia & York filed for protection from its creditors . |
| 15 | In December 1992 Grupo Torras filed for protection from its creditors , with a net loss for the previous fiscal year of Ptas51 billion ( $190m ) . |
| 16 | Saarstahl , a subsidiary of France 's Usinor Sacilor , filed for protection from its creditors . |
| 17 | The peasant , says Lancaster , would thus seem to have paid a high price for protection from foreign invasion and for increasing immunity from epidemics : which probably represented the principal benefits derived from the French occupation . |
| 18 | Rather than seeking to match American strength Western Europe soon looked to Washington for protection from the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | How wide the sphere of the duty of care in negligence is to be laid depends ultimately on the court 's assessment of the demands of society for protection from the carelessness of others . |
| 20 | Experts believe they suffer just as much on harrowing journeys , although nature has invested these animals with the capacity ( once valuable for protection from predators ) for not revealing pain or fear . |
| 21 | Cover surrounding surfaces for protection from paint ‘ drift ’ . |
| 22 | Pan American World Airways , formerly the largest airline in the USA , announced on Jan. 8 that it had filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code , following a long period of almost continuous losses which industry sources put at $3,000 million . |
| 23 | The US airline Pan American , which had filed in January for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code [ see p. 37953 ] , saw its prospects improve with an acceptance by the United Kingdom government ( confirmed on March 11 ) that it could in effect sell its rights to routes into London 's Heathrow airport to United Airlines for $290,000,000 ; United began its Heathrow services on April 5 . |
| 24 | This is perhaps nowhere more clearly seen than in Inca Peru where the Inca monarch headed an authoritarian welfare state in which his monopoly of the economic surplus , along with his military and policy power , meant that the citizen looked only to him for protection from his fellow men and from hunger , want and hardship . |
| 25 | Half-a-loaf welcome for Budget from NFU |
| 26 | 6 Map and compass skills for beginners from Sedburgh in the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 27 | It is also concentrating on widening the art-historical issues by studying the links between critical and historical thought and between artists from diverse cultural backgrounds . |
| 28 | When the House of Commons considered the matter in 1953 , its views were affected by the fact that they were unaware of any evidence of pressure for change from the churches themselves . |
| 29 | Immediately after the fall of the eastern bloc regimes , even the top nomenklatura professed that they had been closet democrats all along , pushing relentlessly for change from within the structures of power . |
| 30 | All of the capacities could have evolved independently , but then obtained further impetus for change from the gradual emergence of language . |