Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The Pleasure Dome is the host for Dave 's blend of up-front dance and indie tunes , where the sounds are likely to include ditties from the likes of Happy Mondays , The Charlatans , World Of Twist , 808 State , A Tribe Called Quest and The KLF , interspersed with a splattering of classic House tunes . |
2 | The Calvinist vision of an earthly city in which pastor and politician work in harmony to exclude evil from the lives of all those within the city walls remains a religious outlook for a significant number of protestant loyalists . |
3 | The main joke , a cheerily philistine one , is to pitch Australia from the margins of Western thought into its centre . |
4 | The main joke , a cheerily philistine one , is to pitch Australia from the margins of Western thought into its centre . |
5 | Two or three of them who were on the main board solicited support from other board members ; they worked even harder to obtain commitment from the heads of the businesses , who would soon be board members . |
6 | Participating and enjoying disability arts could then be seen as only a side-show in the drama of struggle for change , something to provide relief from the tensions of boring or stressful committee meetings . |
7 | More importantly , he was not tonsured : Lothar , perhaps moved by the obligations of a godfather , could not bring himself thus to exclude Charles from the ranks of the throneworthy . |
8 | The Commission , however , has wide power to obtain information from the parties by making a formal request to supply information and/or documents within a specified period of time . |
9 | Whereas the recovery of alluvial gold could safely be left to the Iberians of the Guadalquivir , the Douro or the Tagus , the Romans found it necessary to exercise much closer control to extract gold from the mines of Asturias . |
10 | The distinction between public and private spheres of existence has been used for centuries to exclude women from the activities through which larger social processes are effected ; it has made of them goods to be protected , the stakes for which wars are fought by men . |
11 | Between 1313 and 1322 , with the help of Archbishop Reynolds , Edward II tried to extract grants from the clergy by means of their parliamentary proctors , but so obstinate were their objections and so counter-productive , politically as well as financially , were these attempts that by 1322 the king was content to seek subsidies through clerical assemblies and not parliament . |
12 | Libya continued to resist pressures from the governments of the United States , the United Kingdom and France for the extradition to the UK of two Libyans , Abdelbaset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , to stand trial on charges related to the 1988 Lockerbie bombing . |
13 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
14 | Instead , the government intends to resist pressure from the unions for a freeze , and separate suggestions for a generalised rationing system . |
15 | Stealing the money , Chubei is able to buy Umegawa from the clutches of a wealthier rival . |
16 | The Court is able to hear arguments from the parties for the exemption of the agreement from the provision of the Act . |
17 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
18 | Their right to withhold correspondence from the children in care must , however , be questioned . |
19 | At Derwentwater ‘ Beyond Barrow Beck , is presented a scene of desolation , almost sufficient to draw tears from the eyes of the traveller of feeling , who would certainly lose nothing if he were conducted through it blindfold … ’ |
20 | Again , in countries such as West Germany and the Netherlands — despite their fairly low union densities — a higher proportion of workers are covered by the terms of the union-negotiated collective agreements as a result of the legislative provision for the ‘ extension ’ of agreements throughout an industry ( principally in order to protect employers from the effects of low wage competition ) . |
21 | In order not to divert attention from the components of performance of the total of recognised gains and losses for the period , if included as a primary statement , the reconciliation should be shown separately from the statement of total recognised gains and losses . |
22 | Over 400 Holybourne residents have signed a petition urging the authorities to take measures to protect villagers from the dangers of speeding traffic along the old London Road . |
23 | A brief summary of the PCA investigation of complaints about police tactics used to clear demonstrators from the steps of Manchester University 's Students ' Union building during a visit by the then Home Secretary , Leon Britain , in March 1985 highlights the origins of this concern . |
24 | Jovellanos regarded rent control as useless and an evil in itself ; he considered land as a commodity that must find its natural price in the open market and held that it was ‘ vanity ’ to try to protect peasants from the effects of economic laws . |
25 | The reason for this lenient approach is that the court will not want to undermine the statutory regulations which are often designed to protect workmen from the consequences of their own carelessness . |
26 | Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ? |
27 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
28 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
29 | In fact , it may enhance our pleasure if it has helped us to snatch success from the jaws of failure ! |
30 | The front teeth of venomous snakes may be modified to conduct venom from the glands in the upper jaw to the tip of the tooth . |