Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] from the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hastily averting her eyes from the strong arched column of his tanned throat as he emptied his glass , she retraced her steps to the kitchen . |
| 2 | She could n't seem to wrench her eyes from the heated blue gaze devouring her . |
| 3 | According to the Treaty , non-signatories would have to pay hard currency for their imports from the new Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Elite cadres are selected by their predecessors from the same educational institutions : the old boy network ( Sedgemore , 1980 ; Benn , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | There is an argument of increasing popularity with government and some of the advisers to government , that since comprehensive schools are widely seen to do worse for their pupils than selective schools in terms of examination results , and since so many people , if they can afford it , are removing their children from the maintained comprehensive sector to independent schools ( which are broadly speaking selective ) a way must be found for government to supply non-comprehensive schools , in the interests of the country as a whole . |
| 6 | Their vote was scarcely changed from two years previously , and they easily overcame their tormentors from the 1989 European Assembly elections , the Greens . |
| 7 | On Oct. 26-27 the AMU foreign ministers met in Algiers with their counterparts from the western Mediterranean countries of Europe ( Portugal , Spain , France and Italy ) , with Malta as an observer . |
| 8 | Meeting as the San José VI Group [ see p. 35892 ] Foreign Ministers of the five Central American countries as at Montelimar , with the addition of Panama and with Foreign Ministers from Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela in attendance , met with their counterparts from the 12 European Community ( EC ) member countries in the Irish capital , Dublin , on April 9-10 . |
| 9 | The San José Group of Foreign Ministers of the five Central American countries together with Panama met their counterparts from the 12 European Community ( EC ) member countries in Managua , the Nicaraguan capital , on March 18-19 for the seventh annual meeting on EC-Central American co-operation , which was also attended by the Foreign Ministers of Colombia , Venezuela and Mexico . |
| 10 | The San José Group of Foreign Ministers of the five Central American countries met their counterparts from the 12 European Community ( EC ) countries in Lisbon on Feb. 25-26 for their eighth annual conference , which was also attended by Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela . |
| 11 | Also , if the deceased person leaves any estate , the local authority will claim its expenses from the legal personal representative . |
| 12 | He supported the Pope , of course , and sent his own embassy to the Lombards demanding that Desiderius remove his forces from the occupied papal cities , and comply further with the Pope 's original demands for Ferrara and Faenza . |
| 13 | Christopher added that ‘ we are now engaged in intensive consultations with our partners from the leading industrial democracies to develop a joint programme of assistance ’ . |