Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 2 | It is unique in its opportunities to establish from the outset good habits in terms of expectations of parental involvement and willingness to participate in honest exchange about the child 's progress . |
| 3 | Hungary 's preliminary announcement at the June meeting of its intention to withdraw from the Pact by the end of 1991 opened the way for Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland to announce in January 1991 their withdrawal with effect from July 1 , and Romania and Bulgaria also announced plans to leave the organization [ see p. 37979 ] . |
| 4 | Nevis has its own legislature ( consisting of five elected and three nominated members ) and an executive which has exclusive responsibility for the island 's internal administration and through which its population may exercise its right to secede from the union with St Christopher . |
| 5 | Two members , Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins , had already stated their wish to retire from the committee . |
| 6 | Two members , Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins , had already stated their wish to retire from the committee . |
| 7 | Here , too , you have to be careful and weigh the advantages of their appearance against the disadvantages of their potential to distract from the message . |
| 8 | She put on some music while they ate and the conversation moved from the complexities of the dysfunctioning family to fertility rites to developing acting styles to the persistence of Aids to Harry Roy to the nature of joy to the repressiveness of English Fascism to the astrological outlook , and , finally to Lee , herself , to her tendency to withdraw from the group , but , ultimately , to her graciousness as their hostess and the deliciousness of her food . |
| 9 | Walsh announced his decision to retire from the government on April 2 ; although he gave no reasons , he had earlier suggested that the government lacked sufficient political will to confront the country 's grave economic problems . |
| 10 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 11 | Referring to his decision to resign from the Cabinet over the Westland affair in January 1986 , he says : ‘ I made a statement that day making it clear that I was going to continue in active politics in any role the Conservative Party wanted . |
| 12 | He succeeded Corneliu Coposu , who had previously announced his decision to resign from the post . |
| 13 | It was during the course of his acrimonious exchanges with the Constituent Assembly on New Year 's Day 1946 that de Gaulle evidently made up his mind to resign from the presidency . |
| 14 | One of his most famous illusions was his ‘ Levitation ’ , which he first performed in 1867 , when he caused his wife to rise from the stage . |
| 15 | Given his abilities and his natural desire to go into space , it should have been a logical extension of his career to graduate from the Air Force into the Space Programme . |
| 16 | He could see Lucier waiting behind the pageant in his serpent 's costume for his cue to emerge from the Mouth of Hell and tempt Eve with the forbidden fruit . |
| 17 | Waiting for his prey to rise from the hollow and dash across open ground . |
| 18 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 19 | What made Whitaker ideal for Doctor Who , though , was his ability to write from the heart ; to put into words notions and understandings of wonder . |
| 20 | I was very sorry when you told me this morning of your decision to resign from the Government . |
| 21 | NATO proposed to the Warsaw Treaty states a joint declaration " in which we solemnly state that we are no longer adversaries and reaffirm our intention to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state or from acting in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and with the CSCE [ Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ] Final Act . |