Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society chairman Malcolm Smith said his members would now want to see a written reply from the Department of Health confirming the proposed arrangements would not be introduced . |
| 2 | Dave Till , spokesman for the Leukaemia Unit Fund committee , said : ‘ We are getting fed up with delays and we want to see a definite commitment from the health authority . ’ |
| 3 | The October bank holiday proposal has received a muted response from Employment Minister Michael Howard , who said he was open to persuasion but had no plans to make changes . |
| 4 | US West Inc 's plans to get into the fun-and-games end of the telecommunications business with Time Warner Inc has received a mixed review from the junior among the credit rating agencies , Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co of Chicago , which placed the securities of US West Inc , US West Capital Funding and US West Financial Services on rating watch . |
| 5 | The agreement has received a cautious welcome from environmentalists , some of whom , however , are sceptical as to whether a purely voluntary approach can be effective . |
| 6 | At least one exceedingly wet Old Etonian baronet ( oh , all right then : Sir George Young ) has received a rude note from another even wetter Old Etonian baronet ( yes , you 're right : Sir Ian Gilmour ) deploring his decision to vote for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 7 | M Rocard 's ‘ big bang ’ proposal has received a positive response from most socialist leaders , left-wing voters ( 73 per cent approved of the idea ) , and ecologist supporters ( 62 per cent approved ) , while several leading communist dissidents have expressed a cautious interest . |
| 8 | Mr Rocard 's ‘ big bang ’ proposal has received a positive response from most socialist leaders , left-wing voters ( 73 per cent approved of the idea ) , and ecologist supporters ( 62 per cent approved ) , while several leading communist dissidents have expressed a cautious interest . |
| 9 | The South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants ' diamond jubilee appeal has received a welcome boost from Olympic gold medal winner Sally Gunnell . |
| 10 | You might suppose that a bad smell would not deter a really hungry hunter , but anyone who has received a full squirt from a skunk knows very well that it is almost unendurable . |
| 11 | A ONE line appeal for Government help to collect the poll tax in Darlington has received a curt response from the town 's MP . |
| 12 | Feminism , as I have said , needs to preserve a critical distance from all theories of self . |
| 13 | Violent headaches which may be from exposure to a dry cold wind that has stopped a nasal catarrh from flowing . |
| 14 | It 's the first time the high court has stopped a criminal trial from going ahead . |
| 15 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've come to see a young man from the place where I work , ’ she said , trying to sound firm and businesslike . |
| 17 | Finally , in the latter months of 1945 , as Britain tried to obtain a massive loan from the USA to remain financially solvent , a conference was arranged for January 1946 in Bermuda . |
| 18 | A conference on AIDS has attracted a good response from businessmen in the Alton area . |
| 19 | The presence of Asian women advice workers has attracted a good response from the Asian community and the informality is attracting more family and personal enquiries of the sort that people may have felt uncomfortable about bringing previously . |
| 20 | Each brothel has to obtain a special licence from the police and the names of the women must also be registered . |
| 21 | So far this has included a major relocation from London to Peterborough , new £100m headquarters , product rationalisation , a number of company-wide initiatives aimed at improving management efficiency and a £1m investment in a new core financial system . |
| 22 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 23 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
| 24 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
| 25 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 26 | He has come a long way from the rough-edged , bearded Glaswegian to the rich , Hollywood smoothie , all tan and haircut . |
| 27 | One-room living has come a long way from the old bed-sitter image with its general note of poverty and desperation . |
| 28 | Whitham has come a long way from April 16 , 1988 when he won the Enkalon 1,000cc race and became one of the few English riders to score at Kirkistown at that time . |
| 29 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
| 30 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |