Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [noun] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet customs regulations were to be maintained in Lithuania ( the Lithuanian government on March 17 had announced plans to curb exports from the republic , including introduction of Lithuanian-run border checkpoints ) , and guards were to be posted around nuclear power stations and " other very important sites which are all-union property " . |
| 2 | A one-mile link from Boathouse Bridge to the East Coast Railway bridge will connect with minor roads to provide routes from the centre of Edinburgh to the lanes of West Lothian and the Forth Road Bridge . |
| 3 | It had long been a tradition for Roman emperors to claim descent from the gods , and on that basis to claim godhood for themselves as well . |
| 4 | Their leader , Tran Van Giau , used extreme methods to enforce compliance from the people which probably went beyond the policy of Ho . |
| 5 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 6 | The distinction between public and private spheres of existence has been used for centuries to exclude women from the activities through which larger social processes are effected ; it has made of them goods to be protected , the stakes for which wars are fought by men . |
| 7 | The British Council , in conjunction with the Publishers Association , has set up a scheme to provide financial assistance enabling Russian publishers wanting to publish translations of UK books to purchase rights from the UK licence holders . |
| 8 | Miloš used these funds to buy estates from the Turks , and then he transferred them either into his own hands or into those of his Serbian friends . |
| 9 | This is partly due to the ability of pulses to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere , which feeds the rest of the mixture , and partly due to the little-understood symbiosis between ‘ companion plants ’ . |
| 10 | Other life insurers to draw encouragement from the bid were Britannic , up 27p to 520p , and Refuge Group , 26p higher at 604p . |
| 11 | The government already pays for a unit at the Royal Aircraft Establishment , in Farnborough , that uses powerful computers to analyse signals from the satellites . |
| 12 | May I also say that the Department 's concern would be taken more seriously if it did not take over three months to get replies from the Secretary of State to hon. Members who draw his attention to accusations that have been made in relation to what goes on in Castlereagh ? |
| 13 | They will have to ask permission from the match umpires before they can use their fingers to scratch mud from the surface of the ball . |
| 14 | Sefton was one of five North-West authorities to receive funding from The Sports Council . |
| 15 | Botanists and horticulturists depended upon the good services of British sea captains to carry plants from the West Indies and North America . |
| 16 | If you have previously run BBCBASIC(Z80) , you can return to it by using the cursor keys to select BASIC from the list of suspended activities in the index . |
| 17 | ‘ Many farm businesses are under pressure just now , so we would urge planners to heed advice from the DoE and bear in mind the needs of farm enterprises in this period of great upheaval for the farming industry , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 18 | It was not unusual for a direct appeal to be made in a memorial text to casual passers-by , or for visually impressive and even amusing monuments to command attention from the side of a road . |
| 19 | The colleges grappled with widespread early retirements of staff in teacher education , permissions to prepare courses from the DES in the case of teacher education , and from the Inspectorate and the Regional Advisory Councils for other courses . |
| 20 | Their main concern was that independent arbitration would drag out negotiations and prevent them complying with the MMC proposals to free pubs from the tie by the deadline of November 1992 . |
| 21 | Some southern cities propose building desalination plants to treat water from the Pacific . |
| 22 | The Peat Consortium , representing Britain 's leading voluntary wildlife conservation bodies including the Worldwide Fund for Nature , Friends of the Earth and the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , has campaigned for two years to halt extraction from the bogs . |
| 23 | The National Rivers Authority bought in dozens of workers to pump sludge from the river and take it by tanker for spreading on nearby fields . |
| 24 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 25 | The clue to his gardening success in such unpromising terrain can be found at Hidcote in Gloucestershire , for it was a visit there during the 1960s that inspired him to hedge in his land , making a series of compartments to protect plants from the weather . |
| 26 | This enabled the Bank to raise the rate when it wished to tighten liquidity in the banking sector and force the banks to recall loans from the discount houses . |
| 27 | Efforts in earlier years to raise money from the City had proved fruitless . |
| 28 | This is one of the few places to take shelter from the streets that was safe to go . |
| 29 | It is rumoured that the project is backed by an international mining consortium and there have been recent reports of attempts to enlist Yanomami from the area for military service . |
| 30 | The European Convention on Transfrontier Television covered programme standards , advertising and sponsorship , and included regulations to protect audiences from the broadcasting of pornography , excessive violence and programmes inciting racial or religious hatred . |