Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun prp] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour leadership is under pressure from its own MPs to vote against the bill on third reading because the Maastricht Treaty exempts Britain from the social chapter . |
| 2 | The amendment seeks to delete the protocol that exempts Britain from the social chapter and , if selected for debate , could muster sufficient support from Tory rebels to blow a hole in the legislation . |
| 3 | And one rustle of the packet wakes Darren from the deepest sleep . |
| 4 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 5 | ‘ And , if I do n't , out goes Peter from the ancestral home without a penny in his pocket . ’ |
| 6 | This is the main feature which saves Postscript from the slow execution normally associated with interpreted languages . |