Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terriers sometimes suffer from this same problem when they are used to evict foxes from the same sort of terrain . |
| 2 | Because it is necessary to include subjects from the other discipline from the first year onwards it is very difficult , although not impossible , to complete a mixed honours degree programme incorporating all the ‘ professional ’ law courses . |
| 3 | By contrast , Britain did not find much support across the OEEC for its proposal to exclude agriculture from the free trade area . |
| 4 | Thus Lacey ( 1970 ) , in his study of a secondary school , had to obtain permission from the chief education officer and the headmaster before he entered the school , as did Burgess ( 1983 ) . |
| 5 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 6 | It was perfectly proper to infer prejudice from the mere passage of time : in Cherry 's case the magistrate 's decision was based on two flawed findings of justification and no prejudice . |
| 7 | Some Tories think it 's a sop to the right from a weakened premier , the Government insist that the sell off is the best way to attract investment from the private sector into the railways , but there are signs that the break up of B R is n't proving as attractive to outside investors as the government hoped . |
| 8 | We were able to obtain data from the 1981 census for enumeration districts ( average about 150 households ) . |
| 9 | John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire . |
| 10 | Dalan 's party , which held its first meeting on March 15 , was expected to attract defectors from the liberal wing of the ANAP . |
| 11 | About 1820 , possibly due to the persuasion and influence of William Gilkison , Galt became the London agent for people in Upper Canada who were trying to obtain compensation from the British Government for losses they had sustained in the 1812/13 war with the U.S.A. He submitted a plan to the Government which led to the creation of the Canada Company , and , as its first Secretary , he was sent to Canada to acquire land . |
| 12 | Police said the message was a decoy to distract attention from the real danger area . |
| 13 | The Middle East International of Nov. 23 reported that during an address to the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee on Nov. 19 , Shamir had specifically linked the territories with the need for space to absorb immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | Absent this year is the rich range of June drawings exhibitions timed to distract buyers from the major auction houses ' summer sales , leaving only Bellinger 's , and , in early July , Flavia Ormond 's . |
| 15 | It is only since 1964 that a successful unassisted party has been able to obtain costs from the Legal Aid Fund at all . |
| 16 | Government spending and taxing strategies are therefore subservient to economic interests , but the state is also trying to contain pressures from the working class for more services and benefits . |
| 17 | He argues that the depression marks the exhaustion of firms ' ability to obtain profits from the last generation of innovations and their low profit rates force them to take radical steps . |
| 18 | And so decisions to exclude children from the National Curriculum must in turn be arbitrary in part . |
| 19 | The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging both sides to accept arbitration from the International Court of Justice in The Hague . |
| 20 | And in cold-blooded crimewriters Gerald Harper ( Harold Kent ) and William Gaunt ( Paul Riggs ) , it has two actors with the depth to extract doubt from the gravest situation . |
| 21 | It is these induced voltages which are used to extract energy from the mechanical system and provide electromagnetic damping . |
| 22 | What sense does it make to say that the corporation is morally responsible to compensate victims from the corporate treasury , with the consequence that its shareholders must bear the loss ? |
| 23 | But he hopes to attract interest from the casual viewer through what he calls ‘ guerrilla raids on the schedules ’ . |
| 24 | RUGBY LEAGUE chief executive Maurice Lindsay has defended the International Board 's decision to exclude Wales from the 1995 World Cup . |
| 25 | RUGBY LEAGUE chief executive Maurice Lindsay has defended the International Board 's decision to exclude Wales from the 1995 World Cup . |
| 26 | A campaign to prevent the desecration of the holy mountain was inevitably going to receive support from the Catholic Church . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The WBC decision to split ranks from the unified world heavyweight scene has made his latest hope , Tony Tucker , certain of an early shot at new champion Lennox Lewis 's title . |
| 29 | The uncompromising attitude of the government at this time was reflected in a proposal announced on Aug. 10 to evacuate Tamils from the whole Jaffna peninsula ( where about 1,000,000 of them lived ) and house them in refugee camps at Vavuniya while the military sought to " annihilate " the LTTE . |
| 30 | In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ? |