Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also aims to increase its funding from the private sector . |
| 2 | ‘ Even during the days when he was critically ill , he was unable to distract his mind from the on-going reforms and economic development , ’ the obituary , issued through Xinhua news agency , said . |
| 3 | He writes in Our Lady : ‘ We are , after all , familiar enough with the tragedy of a certain feeling which is obliged to borrow its expression from the opposite feeling so as to escape from the myrmidons of the law . |
| 4 | During the late 1980s and early 1990s , investors thought they could successfully invest in ‘ growth ’ shares that were at once exciting and defensive — among them , the giant consumer-product and health-care companies whose pricing power was meant to guard their earnings from the cyclical downturns that the stockmarket was bound to suffer . |
| 5 | Marathon meeting MEMBERS of one of Britain 's most exclusive clubs are meeting at Land 's End to celebrate their marathons from the far north of Scotland to the tip of Cornwall . |
| 6 | In the third part of his series on the agency , Nick Clark joined veteran newspaper photographer Monte Fresco as he attempted to pick his favourites from the huge Popperfoto collection . |
| 7 | The Keraing and his family came to wave us farewell from the cliff-top , and we sailed east into the gulf of Bone , and an empty blue sea . |
| 8 | A number of measures had been taken by the defendants to cover their tracks from the outside world . |
| 9 | Nicola Schreider would surely come to relish her freedom from the agonising uncertainty of loving Guy Sterne … |
| 10 | In her flat with Anne , and in the taxi , she had been able to conceal her pain from the older woman . |
| 11 | Large district libraries with bookstocks of between 40,000 to 100,000 volumes should ‘ meet the demands of all those whose main need is for books and information on specific subjects , even though they may not be engaged in formal study ’ , and also ‘ meet the needs of those who wish to select their books from a wide range of cultural or recreational materials of high standard ’ . |
| 12 | And so it had gone on , generation after generation , Dowd changing his face on occasion ( a simple trick , or feit ) so as to conceal his longevity from the withering human world . |
| 13 | Using his hands to steady himself , he managed to free his leg from the sucking morass . |
| 14 | His body was completely buried under a dirty rug , part of which Hurley held with one hand , ostensibly to cover his knees from the wintry air , but more particularly to hide his other hand in which was a gun pointed straight at his prisoner 's head . |
| 15 | Hamas was widely believed to draw its inspiration from the spiritual leaders of Mujama'a in the Gaza Strip . |
| 16 | He was so funny and entertaining — and made her laugh and smile so much — that by the time he led her from the dance-floor , to fill their plates from the groaning buffet table , she felt far more relaxed and at ease . |
| 17 | As long as the Soviet Union subscribed to this anti-fascist ethic , Nizan was willing to avert his gaze from the internal contradictions of the Soviet state itself . |
| 18 | DONALD Smith , Regional Manager , South of Scotland was presented with a farewell cheque to mark his retirement from the Royal Bank . |
| 19 | To detach his innovations from the metaphysical theology in which they were embedded would be a violation of his integrity as a thinker . |
| 20 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 21 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 22 | But the arrival of punk and the flood of self-produced records led to the setting up of new distribution networks which enabled the new labels to keep their distance from the bigger companies . |
| 23 | Bedmakers in Cambridge colleges were issued with stout gloves to protect their hands from the sharp sedge as they lit the fires in undergraduates ' rooms . |
| 24 | These were founded either by the late Saxon kings from Alfred onwards to protect their kingdom from the Scandinavian invaders or by the Scandinavians themselves , partly for defence , and partly tor the encouragement of trade . |
| 25 | The police admit there 's little shopkeepers can do to protect their property from a mechanical digger . |
| 26 | The agreement required Iran to reduce its output from the current level estimated at around 3,800,000 bpd to 3,490,000 bpd , and Saudi Arabia to trim production slightly from 8,400,000 bpd to 8,390,000 bpd . |
| 27 | In 1202 the Venetians persuaded the armies of Christendom to divert their attention from the Fourth Crusade to assist in the subjugation of Zadar , whose citizens had risen against Venice . |
| 28 | Because the advisory service was so deeply enmeshed in PNP , it is difficult to divorce its contribution from the many aspects and contexts of the programme which are discussed elsewhere in this report . |
| 29 | Freddy the Fox being taken into the countryside to start his rehabilitation from a domestic pet to a wild animal . |
| 30 | And it is photography which Messager uses to divert our attention from the sweet nostalgia of an imagined past . |