Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun sg] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practical applications of the work will be to provide information for coastal planning and engineering studies , to identify marine aggregate resources , to give advice on the siting of outfalls , cable and pipeline routes , and to carry out geochemical baseline studies and investigate sediment contamination using information from the geological survey . |
| 2 | A rough lane goes downriver from the bottom end of the street in Keld and this soon develops into a lovely path amongst trees from which Kisdon Force is reached by a shod detour . |
| 3 | Discourses gain status from the relative power of the group with which they are associated — and as a general rule the media tend to favour the discourses of the elite . |
| 4 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 5 | At that time few attempts were made to measure the effectiveness of such activity , and advertising agencies tended to branch out into sales promotions with the aim of offering an all-inclusive package to their clients in an attempt to combat competition from the emerging sales promotion agencies . |
| 6 | Chad was a northern Angle and undoubtedly orthodox in matters of the tonsure and the date of Easter , but his readiness to accept consecration from the British bishops reveals a continuing failure in Oswiu 's entourage to appreciate the importance of canonical rectitude . |
| 7 | On the day of admission , after an unsuccessful attempt to draw pus from the right peritonsillar tissue , a bilateral tonsillectomy was done . |
| 8 | Goodman contended that the RCM was putting at risk the interests of the Jewish faith by its readiness to enlist help from the Christian community . |
| 9 | Informed consent was obtained from all participants , and the study had approval from the institutional human ethics committee . |
| 10 | The plan was agreed at a meeting co-ordinated by the World Bank and attended by representatives of bilateral donors and international organizations , and was the first of its kind to receive support from the international community . |
| 11 | There were dwarf fan palms where lazy lizards sought shade from the hot sun and thick-leaved aloes which Ruth skirted with care — the points were like needles . |
| 12 | Normally the foal receives affection from the very beginning of its life , first from its mother , and then , when it becomes a bit more adventurous and outgoing , from other foals and companions . |
| 13 | By contrast , Britain did not find much support across the OEEC for its proposal to exclude agriculture from the free trade area . |
| 14 | Children will also split parental affection with one being favoured by one parent and the other child seeking help from the other parent . |
| 15 | Our work uses information from the first interview and the benefit records . |
| 16 | The committee quotes evidence from the National Drugs Intelligence Co-ordinator , Mr Barry Price , that the US , Canada , and some other countries regarded the United Kingdom as ‘ an offshore banking system . ’ |
| 17 | Some British bands received support from the British Council ( Band Of Holy Joy , Shamen ) , others from municipal authorities in the case of twinned cities ( particularly in Germany ) , and also from record companies ( Sonic Youth from the US ) . |
| 18 | Co-incidental with the growth of judicial review by the domestic courts has been the growth in the volume of applications by private individuals seeking redress from the European Commission and Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg . |
| 19 | A vote-maximizing political party therefore has an incentive to propose redistribution from the richer segment to the poorer majority . |
| 20 | Suddenly she was in shadow and only the upper sky was lit with fingers of smoky orange and then an acid burnt lemon from the disappeared orb , but she walked on round unfamiliar roads in what was rapidly becoming dusk . |
| 21 | Perhaps of greater significance , labourism influenced abstinence from the formal political sphere . |
| 22 | Ann Wigglesworth observed that when Augustine and Indir Borde had come for the Church of Scotland there had been a considerable delay and difficulty in getting their work permits and Ros Lyle brought evidence from the Welsh Presbyterial Church and Council for World Mission , where political pressure was needed in order to secure a permit for someone . |
| 23 | There were suspicions , however , that the government had used the scare of a military coup to deflect attention from the political crisis created by its neo-liberal economic policies first introduced in August 1990 [ see p. 37706 ] . |
| 24 | In the Lords , Lord Joseph proposed an amendment to remove compulsion from the National Curriculum provisions — arguing that a mandatory National Curriculum was not working satisfactorily in France . |
| 25 | Business involvement in the quality process means commitment from the highest levels which is why the Quality Scotland Foundation is targeting executive management in Scottish companies . |
| 26 | None of the questions highlighted above by Bukharin can be abstracted from state policies in a Soviet type economy , even that of the mid-1920s , therefore once one had made a few generalisations about the need to transfer surplus from the private sector to the state sector of the economy , all else came down to precise policies which are not self-regulating but consciously decided upon . |
| 27 | They have trooped along to the lobby room to glean information from the Prime Minister 's press Secretary , Mr Bernard Ingham . |
| 28 | The meeting to implement this merger of separate groups is said to have been held during a football match on 3 February 1930 ( presumably the match distracted attention from the little group ) . |
| 29 | In the dry or growing season , plants take water from the unsaturated zone . |
| 30 | Once Calder Hall and Chapel Cross , the military reactors , reach the end of their operational life it is conceivable that the military could produce weapons grade plutonium from the civil nuclear programme in one or more ways . |