Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opposition parties threatened to withdraw from the next meeting of the all-party conference on Oct. 12 unless some of their demands were met [ for first talks , on Sept. 13 , see p. 36893 ] . |
| 2 | Ice creams and lollies seem to benefit from the sharp wit of its frosting . |
| 3 | Similarly , it is shrewd of him to play for the internationalist vote after a prolonged period of sullen Little Englandism during which Labour threatened to withdraw from the Common Market and called into question this country 's role within Nato . |
| 4 | They turned , staying in the centre of Cheapside as the melting snow began to slide from the sloping tiled roofs . |
| 5 | The Scottish accent seemed to come from the other side of the crowd . |
| 6 | 1983 ) looked at 1255 step-families applying to adopt from the step-family population of 6150 in 1980 , and identified a major problem of variable treatment by courts of step-families seeking adoption . |
| 7 | As will be discussed in Chapter 10 , the first big generation of owner-occupiers began to retire from the 1960s onwards . |
| 8 | The bishops ' pre-occupation , too , was with structured administration , which the registers of their activities begin to record from the thirteenth century . |
| 9 | Two broad groups seem to emerge from the known evidence ( fig. 8 ) , each with a different level of impact on the defended area itself and on the extra-mural suburbs . |
| 10 | Unlike the UBR , the Community Charge sought to depart from the old rating system method of calculating local taxes . |
| 11 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 12 | Following the Rhineland-Palatinate election the CSU threatened to withdraw from the governing CDU/CSU/FDP coalition at federal level , but after a five-hour meeting on May 8 the parties agreed to work towards common policies on such issues as abortion and immigration , and to reassert their traditional values . |
| 13 | A terrible roaring sound began to emanate from the doomed building , and the bystanders were ordered to get well away . |
| 14 | They drew attention to Israel 's refusal to implement UN demands to withdraw from the occupied territories and asked why no sanctions were applied against the Israelis . |
| 15 | Leyshon and Stokle managed to escape from the burning car , but they both suffered horific burns . |
| 16 | Apart from strong results from telephone giant AT&T , Coca-Cola and American Airlines , Wall Street continued to benefit from the central bank 's recent monetary easing . |
| 17 | Despite rising expenditure , the ratio of paupers to total population continued to fall from the 1870s and rose only slightly during the depression of 1903–05 . |
| 18 | When guests wish to withdraw from the safe deposit the original receipt must be produced and they must sign the receipt book as proof that they have received back the valuables . |
| 19 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 20 | Why would a political assembly want to abdicate from the full sovereignty which in principle it possesses , and set limits on its own future actions ? |
| 21 | There were many reasons why after two decades of activity the American industry should begin to centre on Hollywood but surely Lary May is right to see the move ultimately in terms of the movies seeking to escape from the constant demands of Progressive America . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the Institution through its new policy on part-time education proposes to withdraw from the formal examination process and will in future delegate this responsibility to approved polytechnics and colleges . |
| 23 | After reading this , one can not help but be puzzled that your politics and current-affairs coverage seems to start from the opposite premise and , unsurprisingly , reaches the opposite conclusions . |
| 24 | It would appear that there was some increase in the marriage rates among those in their early twenties during the early 1920s , perhaps because of the delays caused by the First World War , and after 1934 , when the domestic economy began to revive from the worst excesses of the slump . |
| 25 | Part of the problem in arriving at a satisfactory definition seems to stem from the segmented approach of assessing browsing within the context of the catalogue , separate from the direct shelf approach . |
| 26 | One objective of the analysis is to show that this institutional arrangement will cause local authority spending to differ from the usual predictions of the traditional model . |
| 27 | AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations . |
| 28 | In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause . |
| 29 | Moreover , even when access to primary materials began to improve from the late 1950s and early 60s , the major contours of the liberal approach remained unchanged . |
| 30 | Extra-parliamentary agitation began to shift from the unemployed movement to opposition to fascism , despite the fact that the unemployed demonstrations continued to attract popular attention . |