Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Kingdom Cabinet decided on July 28 , 1989 , to order the British company British Aerospace to withdraw from negotiations with Iraq on the sale of 50 Hawk jet trainers to the country in a $500,000,000 package . |
| 2 | In Kevin Billington 's production , Quartermaine 's Terms comes over as a deceptively sedate and profoundly funny play that is a serious pleasure to watch from start to finish . |
| 3 | The polar gates , once used by the star-walking Slann to step from world to world , had collapsed , and a tide of uncontrolled magical energy swamped the Known World . |
| 4 | Director No. 62668 ‘ Jutland ’ enters Victoria with a local train from Nottingham probably around the time these engines were given a brief return to service from storage at Staveley in 1961 . |
| 5 | The most famous symbol of the tendency for the educated élite to move from radicalism towards liberalism was the publication of Vekhi , a thoroughgoing rejection of the revolutionary heritage by leading members of the intelligentsia . |
| 6 | Among the most important evidence to emerge from analysis of Mansell 's start are that his Ferrari was not lined up straight and telemetry on the Ferrari indicated that he had fiercely defended his position , turning right twice to close out Prost . |
| 7 | In 1956 the British forces had appeared to take an unconscionable time to get from Cyprus to Port Said . |
| 8 | If there is one lesson to emerge from consideration of the changing balance of dependence and independence in old age , it is the flexibility and adaptability for which old people are given so little credit . |
| 9 | Present Laughter would have made theatre history as the first production to go from Belfast into the West End . |
| 10 | Hundreds of others in the same position , will doubtless make the same decision to switch from rail to car . |
| 11 | As praise costs so little , this is a regrettable finding to emerge from studies of parent-child relationships . |
| 12 | Some of the facts and figures connected with the 500 metre-long structure are mind-boggling — 65,000 tonnes of steelwork , 220,000 tonnes of concrete [ enough to fill a queue of cement mixers stretching from London to Manchester ] , 1,800 miles of electrical and instrument cable and enough pipework to stretch from Sellafield to London . |
| 13 | Press reports cited evidence of his involvement with the USA , including his use of a US military helicopter to travel from Beirut to Cyprus in 1986 and his involvement in the release of three US hostages , the Rev. Benjamin Weir , freed on Sept. 14 , 1985 , and Lawrence Jenco and David Jacobsen , released on July 26 and Nov. 2 , 1986 , respectively , all of whom turned out to have been traded for arms . |
| 14 | It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales . |
| 15 | Aimed at young families , small business users and aspiring professionals , the car is the first new model to emerge from Rover since the 800 series in 1986 . |
| 16 | They expect the year-end result to crash from £211m to about £160m to £170m . |
| 17 | By an order dated 5 August 1991 Waite J. granted the foster mother leave to apply for judicial review of the decision of the local authority to remove from placement with her the four children D. , born on 5 June 1978 , T. , born on 2 January 1980 , A. , born on 23 April 1981 , and K. , born on 21 November 1982 , who were in the care of the local authority . |