Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the extreme , some nuclear waste was so intensely radioactive that it had to be kept isolated from the human environment for thousands of years . |
| 2 | As might have been expected from his career , he outstayed his welcome and had to be forced to retire from the post — a position previously rewarded with a peerage , but which for him only merited a knighthood . |
| 3 | Support for my argument that agency care is likely to be used comes from the findings of a follow up survey of a nineteen er sorry , comes from the findi , I I 'll start that sentence again . |
| 4 | Support for my argument that agency care is unlikely to be used comes from the findings of a follow up survey . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , in a little-known episode of the Community 's history , Greenland in 1984 , following unanimous agreement among the Member States , became the only state to be allowed to withdraw from the EEC ; in doing so , it reduced the EEC 's land surface area by half . |
| 6 | Kahane , born in New York in 1932 , had founded the Jewish Defence League ( JDL ) there in 1968 , organizing defence patrols , clashing frequently with Black Nationalists , and campaigning for Jews to be allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Some of the first victims to be helped came from the war-torn streets of Greece … |
| 8 | The last one I have information on was observed heading from the Barents Sea towards northern Finland on 4 July 1990 . |
| 9 | Dejan Savicevic , their Yugoslav midfielder , is understandably distressed at being forced to watch from the stand . |
| 10 | As MP for Derby from 1868 to 1880 Plimsoll had for years attacked the shipowning interest and the government which supported it hip and thigh on the unnecessary loss of life and property at sea , attracting great publicity in 1875 by being ordered to retire from the House of Commons following a particularly violent denunciation of their callous and self-interested behaviour . |