Example sentences of "[verb] from [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While many British evacuees drifted back to the cities once the threat of an invasion had been lifted , refugee children were actively discouraged from returning to the urban life . |
| 2 | The idea that learners should be discouraged from attending to the formal properties of language is comparable to the idea , prevalent in a previous era , that learners should be denied all access to translation . |
| 3 | Perhaps I should refrain from responding to the hon. Gentleman and continue with my speech . |
| 4 | However , US relief workers who flew into Tehran on June 25 with medical supplies and food were reported to have been prevented from going to the affected provinces , while Kayhan , one of Iran 's largest-circulation newspapers , accused the USA of being mean with its aid and of hoping to reap diplomatic benefits by offering " one or two million dollars " . |
| 5 | ‘ But they will have no experience of running pubs and I know from talking to the local bench that licensing magistrates are concerned at the standard of new licensees . ’ |
| 6 | This right of control is manifested in , among other situations , the consignor 's retrieval of goods from the carrier or the carrier 's warehousing agent and in the consignor 's instruction to refrain from delivering to the named consignee or to deliver to another consignee . |
| 7 | We knew from listening to the Allied radio that groups of partigiani , partisans , had secretly started to organize them selves , and young men of military age were advised to go into hiding to avoid being sent to Germany or conscripted . |
| 8 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |