Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A compromise agreement reached on Jan. 8 , negotiated under the auspices of the special mission of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , which would have paved the way for the return from exile of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide , was later rejected by military and parliamentary leaders in Haiti , leaving the country 's political crisis unresolved . |
| 2 | What accounts for the differences from town to town , or the similarities between them ? |
| 3 | Labour MPs put down a motion in the House of Commons calling for the removal from office of the president of the NIRC for ‘ political prejudice and partiality ’ . |
| 4 | Their effect is to reduce the average loss arising for the UK from membership of the EC . |
| 5 | Advertisements were placed in the International Herald Tribune , the Washington Post and the New York Times at the end of January , purporting to announce that several well-known figures were withdrawing their support from a campaign backed by the human rights organization Amnesty International for the release from prison of Mohammed al-Fassi . |
| 6 | I have little doubt that the alteration was the composer 's own — particularly since the trill added to the piano part in the answering phrase ( it has no parallel in the violin part of the Septet ) serves to give variety to the ‘ echo ’ , as a substitute for the change from major to minor . |
| 7 | The ultimate situation would be that such as Rank Xerox are now operating on a small-scale experimental basis whereby some senior staff work for the company from home on a free-lance sub-contractor basis . |
| 8 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 9 | The previous war had ended with the country unprepared for the transition from war to peace : ‘ The plan was not there . |
| 10 | Good estate management should result in the landlord maintaining an even balance of trades but the following clause is nevertheless prudent : Not to permit or suffer any [ adjoining or neighbouring premises in the ownership or control of the Landlord ] [ other premises in the Centre ] to be used for the business from time to time being carried on in the Premises |
| 11 | Take a suitably sized plastic beach ball , cutaway for the face from nape of neck to forehead with nice curvy lines , and carefully estimate where the fluffy ears will have to project and trim the earholes tight . |
| 12 | His shoes were stout brown brogues , suitable for the tramping from place to place which takes up most of a detective 's time . |
| 13 | The king 's favour made him the special target of the reforming Ordainers , who in 1311 called for the exclusion from court of both Henry and Isabella , the resumption of his grants from the king , and the transference of the custody of Man to ‘ a good Englishman ’ ( a phrase which reveals one reason for his unpopularity ) . |
| 14 | It requires only a small further step to argue for the exclusion from English of " those unfitted to benefit " from studying literature , Indeed , in 1968 , T. R. Henn is to be found recommending that at Cambridge the number of students taking English should be cut by 40 per cent on the grounds that many students tend simply to " drift " into the discipline . |
| 15 | [ 75/25 ] of the amount of Advance Corporation Tax ( ‘ ACT ’ ) which could be utilised against Group taxable profits for accounting periods ending before or on [ date ] as reduced in respect of the profits for the period from completion to [ date ] and to the extent that the dividend reduces the audited consolidated net assets at completion below [ x ] the consideration will be reduced £1 for £1 by the deficiency . |
| 16 | The net assets at completion should include the amount of the ACT recoverable in respect of the dividend payments , provided that the total ACT recoverable included in the net assets at completion shall not exceed the amount which can be utilised against Group taxable profits for accounting periods ending on or before completion to [ date ] as reduced in respect of the profits for the period from completion to [ date ] . |
| 17 | Andrewes was chairman of the committee which was responsible for the books from Genesis to Kings . |
| 18 | During the preparations for the switch from control by company boards and municipal electricity committees to control by the new national and regional authorities , there was both excitement and concern about the future in the industry . |
| 19 | Another scene on the Wicker Arches during the transition from steam to electric in 1954 . |
| 20 | ‘ The middle peasantry may be a revolutionary force during the transition from feudalism to capitalism , a conservative force in capitalism , a fascist force under the threat of socialism ( or capitalism in crisis ) , and a reactionary force under socialism , ( Kay 1978 : 119 ) . |
| 21 | During the period from late-1988 to early-1991 , when the government had a budget surplus , there were no new issues of stock and , at times , the Bank was an active net buyer of outstanding stock . |
| 22 | There will also always be accidental occurrences during the period from conception to birth , and errors during and after birth . |
| 23 | Development to the L3 only occurs during the period from spring to autumn . |
| 24 | The company has its own customer information system named CARGOLINK and by the end of the present year all the company 's offices will be using this system thus enabling the organisation to control each individual consignment during the transport from booking to final delivery to end user . |
| 25 | This period coincided with various socioeconomic advances which could also be usefully recorded , such as the change from horsepower to mechanisation and from an all-male workforce to a female civilian one . |
| 26 | This period coincided with various socioeconomic advances which could also be usefully recorded , such as the change from horsepower to mechanisation and from an all-male workforce to a female civilian one . |
| 27 | This indicates that the causal agent of the systemic response has exited the wound site within 5 minutes and contrasts with studies on older plants in which systemic pin levels increased as the time from wounding to excision increased until 120 minutes after wounding . |
| 28 | Then there are a number of predictions made in Marxist literature , such as the transition from socialism to communism , which it is impossible to subject to any meaningful test , and which are not even developed analytically . |
| 29 | One had a recurrence of an old back injury involving a disc which bulged from between the vertebrae from time to time , causing intense pain , and the other was a young secretary with period pains . |
| 30 | There was no significant relation between the time from presentation to operation and the proportions of patients with complicated appendicitis and of unnecessary operations , although 39% of operations performed within two hours of presentation were unnecessary . |