Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from co-operating , however , the Metropolitan sought to ‘ mislead , confuse and divert ’ investigators by , for instance , labelling objects from the Lydian hoard ‘ East Greek Treasures ’ . |
| 2 | Gibson , deputy chairman of the Hardy Society , is now gathering opinions from the old boy 's contemporaries , many of which have never been published before . |
| 3 | Aylwin , reflecting demands from the Catholic church and from left- and right-wing politicians for a full inquiry , stated on June 21 that , if the courts determined individual responsibilities for human rights abuses , one of the consequences would be " the retirement of those guilty of such responsibilities " . |
| 4 | Terriers sometimes suffer from this same problem when they are used to evict foxes from the same sort of terrain . |
| 5 | In breeding experiments using animals from the same population , crosses yielded broods that were either uniformly banded , uniformly unbanded or containing an equal proportion of both . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Because it is necessary to include subjects from the other discipline from the first year onwards it is very difficult , although not impossible , to complete a mixed honours degree programme incorporating all the ‘ professional ’ law courses . |
| 8 | He was struck by the way that the buffalo hide pictures from the last century , drawn by his great-great grandfathers , showed the monastery as it was now , in 1997 . |
| 9 | Richard Vendome invited musicians from the Royal College of Music and the male voices from Tiffin School in London . |
| 10 | Dalan 's party , which held its first meeting on March 15 , was expected to attract defectors from the liberal wing of the ANAP . |
| 11 | In France the cabinet du ministre in the foreign ministry included from 1886 , under a number of slightly varying titles , a section which translated and analysed articles from the foreign press : by 1907 it was drawing on 175 newspapers for this purpose . |
| 12 | The Middle East International of Nov. 23 reported that during an address to the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee on Nov. 19 , Shamir had specifically linked the territories with the need for space to absorb immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | * Norsk Hydro , a Norwegian manufacturing group , and British Airways have won awards from the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants for environmental reports . |
| 14 | Until recently there was even a payroll tax , called the Selective Employment Tax , which , like many such measures in recent years , had the opposite effect to that desired : It drew workers from the productive manufacturing industries into the supporting service industries , from engineering to the Post Office , for instance . |
| 15 | Even more importantly , as Mikhail Gorbachev gradually allows so many officially forgotten barbarisms from the Soviet Union 's past to slide into the glare of public scrutiny , so the prospect grows of solving one of the post-war era 's most persistent enigmas . |
| 16 | Absent this year is the rich range of June drawings exhibitions timed to distract buyers from the major auction houses ' summer sales , leaving only Bellinger 's , and , in early July , Flavia Ormond 's . |
| 17 | It is only since 1964 that a successful unassisted party has been able to obtain costs from the Legal Aid Fund at all . |
| 18 | The barring of non-Estonian citizens , mostly Russians , Ukrainians and Byelarussians , drew protests from the Russian leadership and appeared to fuel tension over the issue of Russian troop withdrawal from Estonia [ see this page ] . |
| 19 | Taking up evidence from Greenpeace which simply drew figures from the national forest surveys coordinated by the UN ECE and EC , Sir Hugh wanted to know if the Forestry Commission accepted that ‘ the beech forests of Britain are among the worst affected in Europe ’ . |
| 20 | Government spending and taxing strategies are therefore subservient to economic interests , but the state is also trying to contain pressures from the working class for more services and benefits . |
| 21 | He argues that the depression marks the exhaustion of firms ' ability to obtain profits from the last generation of innovations and their low profit rates force them to take radical steps . |
| 22 | The west portal and arcade with its twelfth century sculpture , representing scenes from the Old Testament , still remains , but the sculpture is now in a crumbling condition . |
| 23 | On the lunettes and walls are further panels representing scenes from the Old Testament . |
| 24 | And so decisions to exclude children from the National Curriculum must in turn be arbitrary in part . |
| 25 | For example , the devastating fungus Cordyceps militaris nearly fills its host 's body cavity with fungal tissue , absorbing nutrients from the rich haemolymph ( the body fluid of the insect ) , literally starving the hapless insect to death from within . |
| 26 | A team representing graduates from the 1970's era will meet teams drawn from players of 1980–85 vintage , the 1985–90 era and , of course , the present side . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | What sense does it make to say that the corporation is morally responsible to compensate victims from the corporate treasury , with the consequence that its shareholders must bear the loss ? |
| 29 | Institutional purchased included the Westfalische Landesmuseum , Münster , which bought ‘ Aeneas rescues Anchises from the burning Troy ’ by Ludger tom Ring the Younger , while the Boymans van Beuningen bought a van de Velde child 's chair for DM15,000 . |
| 30 | Monday 's visitors will include representatives from the Norwegian Association of Local Education Authorities and Godmund Folstad , principal of Hercy School . |