Example sentences of "[vb base] from [noun] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Hollick , the managing director currently embroiled in a boardroom battle at Mirror Group Newspapers , where he is a director , saw the broking business grow from £18.9 million against a background of declining interest rates and increased supply of government , corporate and US municipal bonds . |
| 2 | Taiwan has seen its reserves ( excluding gold ) climb from $12 billion at the end of 1990 to $12 billion in December 1992 — the biggest stash of any country in the world . |
| 3 | One-bedroom apartments cost from £319 each for a week for two sharing . |
| 4 | Prices vary from FFr 4,000–25,000 with a handful of works around the FFr100,000 mark . |
| 5 | Two further points arise from s. 110 of the Companies Act 1989 which relate to the breadth of the objects clause : |
| 6 | Regimes seeking the ideal torturer need candidates who are young , educated , with a track record of obedience to authority — to parents , teachers , priests — and who come from families sympathetic to the political aims of the state . |
| 7 | Their models are their own or each others ' motets and chansons and the chansons of such Parisian colleagues as Claudin de Sermisy , and they make fuller use of the whole polyphonic complex of the model than their predecessors had done : how flexibly may be seen by comparing the opening of the Kyrie of Clemens 's already mentioned Mass ‘ Misericorde ’ : with that of his chanson ‘ Misericorde au martir amoureulx ’ : Bars 3–5 of the Kyrie are not the extraneous interpolation they seem to be ; they come from bars 18–20 of the chanson : |
| 8 | To most of the regulars who troop from Down Royal in the north to Tipperary in the south , Charlie can do no wrong . |
| 9 | While Humanae Vitae began the detachment of large segments of the Catholic community , particularly more vocal segments , from the near unanimous and unquestioned following of papal authority characteristic of the pre-Vatican II era , it was left to John Paul and Cardinal Ratzinger , prefect from November 1981 of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , to harden that detachment into a consistent attitude of distrust as the pope seemed to distance himself more and more from many of the central values of the Council , and of the most apparently positive and welcomed developments of Catholicism in the subsequent years . |