Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [noun pl] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durán , projecting the image of elder statesman , was expected to attract votes from the left in the run-off election . |
| 2 | The reason for this lenient approach is that the court will not want to undermine the statutory regulations which are often designed to protect workmen from the consequences of their own carelessness . |
| 3 | There are many other relics of the past evident around the house and gardens , including a quaint turret on the terrace : it contains a bell which was rung to call parties from the gardens and riverside at meal times . |
| 4 | The Californian plaintiffs had sought to obtain answers from the defendant West German corporation to 315 written interrogatories . |
| 5 | Give him a school leaver any day , or a nice , motherly woman going back to work once her children were grown-up , or an obliging pensioner , prepared to collect trolleys from the car parks … |
| 6 | Wilcoxon 's signed-rank test was used to compare results from the alcohol group with control subjects . |
| 7 | In practice , this overloaded the system and various methods were used to prune paths from the search tree . |
| 8 | A brief summary of the PCA investigation of complaints about police tactics used to clear demonstrators from the steps of Manchester University 's Students ' Union building during a visit by the then Home Secretary , Leon Britain , in March 1985 highlights the origins of this concern . |
| 9 | For the first time the Lord Chancellor has now agreed to have representations from the Bar about membership of the Court of Appeal , Heads of Divisions and Lords of Appeal in Ordinary . |
| 10 | Among her other political activities , she sympathised with the Boers and visited St. Helena when it was used to house prisoners from the South African War . |
| 11 | The elephants were formerly used to haul trunks from the logging operations . |
| 12 | If we want to complete the fortresses , we 've got to get funds from the Americans . |
| 13 | The British government — and a substantial number of British citizens — effectively opted to exclude Blacks from the United Kingdom and deny them their rights to live as equals with other British subjects . |
| 14 | Of the total of 179 , 14 dream reports were judged to contain elements from the films , although there was no difference in the frequency of incorporation of scenes from the two films . |
| 15 | It is perhaps particularly ironic that as yet we have no studies which have attempted to evaluate interventions from the point of view of the children themselves . |
| 16 | What was equally obvious , however , was that unless a high resolution output device could be found to produce pages from the system the company would still be firmly locked into a typesetting bureau for output . |
| 17 | While there is no doubt that fascist organisations like the National Front have attempted to recruit members from the ranks of football hooligans , there is little to connect them with violence in the game ( Popplewell , 1986:59 ) . |
| 18 | As we talked at the reception in the garden behind Downing Street , Patrick told me that , instead of a debate at the Party Conference next month , he and his ministerial team had been asked to answer questions from the floor . |
| 19 | As there were now objections to receiving them , and as the guardians were not allowed to send out-patients from the workhouse , the committee were considering stopping the payments and providing an adequate infirmary at the workhouse — an arrangement which might have ‘ many advantages , pecuniary and otherwise ’ . |
| 20 | A complication from the government 's point of view was that the Sunday Times had contracted to publish extracts from the diaries and in fact did so before the government sought a gagging injunction . |
| 21 | ‘ For instance , the man who , up to a short time ago , was chosen to select films from the West for showing in Slovakia , and to attend festivals like Cannes and Venice , was a butcher by trade . |
| 22 | It was also in this year that the Company lost — at least legally — its sole right of control over appointments , for schoolmasters were now required to hold licences from the Bishop of their province in this case , Chester . |
| 23 | Governments and airlines had failed to learn lessons from the incident . |