Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They will have to ask permission from the match umpires before they can use their fingers to scratch mud from the surface of the ball . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | French successes faltered , however , when the maid of Orleans , failing in her attempt to wrest Paris from the English in 1430 , was captured and burned at the stake in Rouen on 30 May 1431 . |
| 5 | By contrast , Britain did not find much support across the OEEC for its proposal to exclude agriculture from the free trade area . |
| 6 | One sign of the degree of power and independence of a legislature is its capacity to extract information from the government . |
| 7 | Their right to withhold correspondence from the children in care must , however , be questioned . |
| 8 | A great deal of money and time had been spent by the 13 political associations in their efforts to win approval from the government-appointed National Electoral Commission ( NEC ) . |
| 9 | Since this is the nature of the economic environment within which the agent operates it is rational for the agent to use that information about her environment to draw inferences from the information that she has about the current state of the economy , that is to solve her signal extraction problem . |
| 10 | There were at least four large Russian Factory ships just inside the Summer Isles , the rest consisted of a mixed bag of Polish , Bulgarian , and even Italian freezer trawlers , in all we counted more than thirty ships awaiting their turn to load mackerel from the Scottish purse netters . |
| 11 | Charlton immediately came under fire , his decision to withdraw Brady from the fray seen to be cavalier and grossly insensitive . |
| 12 | Typical was the case of John Welshman of East Looe , charged in 1686 for ‘ sending his servant with his horse to fetch earth from the Down without licence ’ . |
| 13 | He was abducted by three men and beaten up when he went with his girlfriend to collect clothes from the house where she used to live in Trowbridge , Wilts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Chief among those dismissed and allegedly involved in scandals was Pedro Paulo Leoni Ramos , Secretary for Strategic Affairs , who was accused of using his influence to win contracts from the state oil firm PÉTROBRAS for companies run by personal friends . |
| 16 | Both of them treated the case as one in which there was an implied threat by the defendant to deprive the plaintiff 's clerk of his right to take extracts from the parish register for no charge ; and both appear to have concluded that , in the circumstances , although that threat was made before the plaintiff 's clerk obtained the extracts he needed , nevertheless it was causative of the payment which was therefore recoverable on the ground of compulsion . |
| 17 | Irrespective of a man 's rank , it was not thought below his dignity to receive payments from the King for military service , and the wages payable varied with the rank of the individual . |
| 18 | The successful programme of asset sales and swaps in 1992 and 1993 has further focused our business , and we will continue our efforts to add value from the considerable investments made in the North Sea . |