Example sentences of "from its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flamboyant , cigar smoking Michael Grade bowed to postbag pressure from teenage TV watches who were demanding that the ‘ Down Under Soap ’ recently introduced to the UK should be switched from its mid-morning slot to the early evening schedule . |
| 2 | Jo Richardson , though replying on behalf of the NEC , pointedly distanced herself from its stand . |
| 3 | A very unhappy MicroMuse Ltd was bemoaning the theft from its stand of a Toshiba Corp laptop computer at the Software Tools show in Wembley , London last week : the machine looks identical to a Toshiba 5200 but was in fact a Sparc LT engineering sample with Solaris loaded and the company warns the thief that it is the only one of its type in the UK and is very traceable . |
| 4 | Sometimes the public distancing of Romania from its Warsaw Pact allies , especially Big Brother in Moscow , was done in a quite insulting fashion : Ceauşescu could even implicitly put the Kremlin in the same category as the White House : ‘ The small and medium-sized states refuse to play the role of pawn in the service of the interests of big imperialist powers any longer . ’ |
| 5 | Unwrap the Jolly Roger from its cling film and drape over the other corner of the chest . |
| 6 | As they watched , he skinned a pregnant female and pulled a perfectly formed foetus from its belly . |
| 7 | The circulating system wanders a little closer , deepens , is classified under a new title — a moderate tropical storm — and is given a name , Agnes perhaps , or Bob , an innocent , unassuming , rather cosy , old-fashioned sort of name that makes no connection in anybody 's mind with a swirling mass of warm air and piled clouds that is bearing down on the coast , thunder and lightning flickering from its belly , the waves beneath it being whipped up into a fury . |
| 8 | And one day there will be a case , one which even you will believe , of a sailor lost in a whale 's mouth and recovered from its belly ; maybe not after half a day , perhaps after only half an hour . |
| 9 | Creggan watched them hour after hour , envying their freedom in such a wide area , though a small ditch right round the pond prevented the ducks wandering too far from its edge . |
| 10 | ( Skoda , if you think about it , received priceless publicity , and emerged from its leg-pulling in surprisingly good shape . ) |
| 11 | Visiting aircraft began arriving early in the day and by the time the airshow started at midday quite a line-up of visiting types were present , ranging from award-winning Percival Vega Gull G–AEZJ to Duncan Baker 's Howard 500 N500LN , the latter making a very rare appearance away from its Exeter base . |
| 12 | Today the ring will be out from its wraps . |
| 13 | Falls back from its productions , |
| 14 | The band 's earnings from their recording contract go towards paying this debt to the record company as well , putting off even further the stage when the band earns money from its records . |
| 15 | This enables the computer to take details from its records and to enter them into standard documents . |
| 16 | If a written constitution is contentious from its beginning , it will not command respect , and it will not be obeyed . |
| 17 | The estate was organic from its beginning in the Seventies , with a large proportion of the wonderful Herault wild herb garrigue retained as habitat for pest predators . |
| 18 | ‘ This has moved from its beginning as a Presbyterian College to a major seat of learning . |
| 19 | Even this definition is by no means satisfactory , since there is plenty of history of the twentieth century , and people alive today who have memories dating from its beginning are contributing valuable data to the expanding field of oral history . |
| 20 | From its beginning , Culham encouraged international collaboration . |
| 21 | If the deviant reneges again in the punishment phase , this is met with a reimposition of the punishment phase from its beginning , thus postponing the date of reversion to the more profitable collusive phase . |
| 22 | Chinese Literature in Revolution 1 discusses the complex relationships between literature and Chinese society in the twentieth century ; Traditional Chinese Literature 2 traces the history of literature from its beginning to the end of the imperial dynasties : both are based on translated readings . |
| 23 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |
| 24 | The so-called " bare infinitive " will be analysed here as evoking a perfective view of the realization of an event , i.e. the image of an event as unfolding in time from its beginning to its end in the case of an action-like event or as actualizing its full lexical content at each instant of its existence in the case of a state-like one . |
| 25 | The meaning of the to infinitive is thus in fact a combination of two potentials : the potential meaning of the bare infinitive , which gives the speaker the possibility of representing the realization of any action as unfolding from its beginning through to its end and any state as having a fully actualized lexical content ; and the potential significate of to , which affords the speaker the possibility of representing any movement in time from a before-position to an after-position ( corresponding here to the beginning of the infinitive event ) . |
| 26 | Term Characteristic Six months Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 does not apply to a tenancy for a term of years certain not exceeding six months unless : ( 1 ) it contains provision for renewing the term or extending it beyond six months from its beginning ; or ( 2 ) the tenant has been in occupation for a period which , together with any period during which any predecessor in his business was in occupation , exceeds twelve months ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s43(3) ) . |
| 27 | His report comes up with six options for cutting the network from its present 16 600 kilometres . |
| 28 | After unification it was proposed that about 16 politicians from East Germany should attend with observer status and that at the next elections to the European Parliament ( scheduled for 1994 ) Germany 's representation in the Parliament would be increased from its present 81 members to 97 . |
| 29 | The APB can not afford to retreat too far from its proposals without raising doubts about its effectiveness , yet the major audit firms ' criticisms of the two EDs are fundamental . |
| 30 | It is in nobody 's interest to increase the adversarial nature of the procedures , yet this is what the General Medical Services Committee acknowledges would result from its proposals . |