Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pos pn] [noun pl] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together , most of the bodies lost ground in the fifteenth century , and were often forced to ‘ appropriate ’ neighbouring parish churches in order to swell their incomes from the tithes due from the laity ; this frequently became a source of bitter dispute locally , and lay patronage shifted away to the parish churches in the fifteenth century . |
| 2 | The value of A 2 is a measure of solvent-polymer compatibility , as the parameter reflects the tendency of a polymer segment to exclude its neighbours from the volume it occupies . |
| 3 | The NSFU found it necessary to escort its men from the vessel through the BSU pickets , with their branch secretary French at their head , while the BSU men , led by Shinwell , were determined not to let them pass . |
| 4 | She saw the hotel porter preparing to carry her bags from the post chaise . |
| 5 | It took several journeys to unload her provisions from the boot . |
| 6 | Equally , if the developer acted unreasonably , the council and third parties may be able to claim their costs from the developer . |
| 7 | The alteration in 1983 in DHSS benefit rules that enabled older people living in private residential care to claim their fees from the DHSS brought dramatic increases in the number of private residential homes , and in the number of older people living in them . |
| 8 | The NL had managed successfully to screen its activities from the attention of historians and political commentators to this day , but it was not so lucky with the relevant authorities . |
| 9 | While they paused on Once Hill , Mr Blakey approached in the Wolseley , on his way to Dynmouth Junction to fetch their parents from the station . |
| 10 | Pryce noted that Cornish miners were forced to buy their candles from the mine , and although he did not , in 1778 , suggest overcharging , nineteenth-century account books reveal substantial profits being taken . |
| 11 | Influenced by considerations such as these , successive leaderships had attempted since almost the beginning of the war to extricate their forces from the conflict . |
| 12 | And Napoleon started a useful trend in planting poplars along French roadsides to shade his soldiers from the midday heat . |
| 13 | He came over to the bed , holding up his hand to shade his eyes from the bedside light , and peering almost comically close , so that Tessa could smell the whisky on his breath . |
| 14 | The only losers if McEnroe fails to overcome his perennial distrust of the media will be the charities to which he has promised to give his winnings from the $6 million tournament he has described as ‘ obscene ’ . |
| 15 | So it 's crucial to insure your belongings from the outset . |
| 16 | To protect my heaterstats from the Oscar and the Perruno , I use a 2″ diameter tube drilled with 6mm holes . |
| 17 | Researchers who were interested in the way of life of what were regarded as primitive peoples went to live among them to study their societies from the inside . |
| 18 | They wore large cotton hats to keep off the sun , and gloves to protect their hands from the corn . |
| 19 | Greenpeace yesterday urged parents to protect their children from the sun during the hottest part of the day to avoid the damaging effects of the depleted ozone layer . |
| 20 | ‘ Look , there 's the house , ’ he said quickly in an attempt to divert his thoughts from the effect she was having on him . |
| 21 | IN THE MENDIPS , A SHEEP FARMER IS STRUGGLING TO PROTECT HIS LAMBS FROM THE FOXES THAT WATCH AND PREY . |
| 22 | Preston tried to keep his fears from the twins but he also kept them as far from the edges and ends of the platform as he possibly could in case of beast attacks . |
| 23 | If you 're moving in the winter you will need to protect your houseplants from the cold . |
| 24 | Yet the number of peasants applying to withdraw their holdings from the commune peaked in 1909 , long before the war , and thereafter underwent a precipitate decline . |
| 25 | Finally in November 1935 the Committee decided to withdraw its members from the ILP and to join the Communist Party . |
| 26 | During 1990 and the first half of 1991 relations altered dramatically with the Soviet Union , which , struggling with momentous internal political and economic problems , made major cuts in its aid programme to Vietnam , and a cutback in the Soviet naval and air base at Cam Ranh Bay ; in October 1990 the Soviet ambassador to Vietnam announced that the Soviet Union had started to withdraw its troops from the base . |
| 27 | Any farm workers who came near the site in the course of their daily work were too busy to lift their eyes from the soil to take in the surrounding landscape , or individual figures moving within it . |
| 28 | Only Preston managed to save its commons from the vultures , and to transform some of them eventually into public parks . |
| 29 | On 20 January 1789 , Eccleston concluded a letter to the editor of the Transactions of the Society of Arts with a postscript : ‘ Mr Moorcroft is a young man of the greatest abilities , and has agreed to turn his thoughts from the practice of physic and surgery , entirely to that of farriery in every branch , provided he can meet with sufficient and certain encouragement in the establishment of a Veterinarian School . |
| 30 | He did n't bother to lift his eyes from the task in hand . |