Example sentences of "to [noun] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 2 | London Transport was inconsistent in applying the class title ‘ E/l ’ to these cars and in general did not apply class letters to cars acquired from the smaller undertakings . |
| 3 | On Jan. 24 Japan announced that it would contribute a further $9,000 million to US-led forces in the Gulf , raising Japan 's total commitments since August 1990 to $13,000 million , including $2,000 million as aid to countries suffering from the economic blockade , notably Jordan , Egypt and Turkey [ see p. 37697 ] . |
| 4 | Once Clifford had departed Palmer set to work to wring from the central government a series of concessions which , had he succeeded in obtaining them all , would have converted Northern Nigeria into a separate state . |
| 5 | An outer-arc ridge , formed of wedges of deformed oceanic sediment and slivers of oceanic crust in addition to sediment originating from the adjacent continent , may undergo extensive vertical development and in some cases rise above sea level . |
| 6 | The 1914 analogy remains potent in a nuclear age , where many observers worry about a drift to war resulting from the increasing automation of the battlefield and of command and control systems . |
| 7 | All these institutions are controlled From above , all an subject to directives emanating from the same political institution or institutions , all have their key officials in the nomenklatura of higher Party officials ( that is , their officials are appointed and removed only when a Party organ takes the action or agrees to it ) , all have developed many of the characteristics associated with bureaucratization . |
| 8 | Even today , most convicts are sentenced to ‘ rigorous ’ imprisonment , and , although some revisions are currently being made , the gaols in most states are run according to manuals dating from the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Each band is in fact made up of components due to transitions arising from the corresponding modes of the various vibrationally excited molecules . |
| 10 | To audiences ranging from the Royal Family to working men , the message of science was put across by earnest evangelists and ardent publicists . |
| 11 | That common-sense approach to Brent came from the hon. Member for Brent , East ( Mr. Livingstone ) who , for those who may not remember , was the former leader of the Greater London council . |
| 12 | The expulsion of the adult worm population is considered to be the consequence of an immediate-type hypersensitivity reaction to antigens derived from the developing larvae . |
| 13 | The failure of a small group of teachers ( who even if they were not professionally inept were certainly politically naïve ) was used to provide ammunition for an attack on schools whose approach to learning diverged from the traditional . |
| 14 | What I have described so far applies to people direct from the Indian sub-continent . |
| 15 | Only replacement back Kenny Logan was an absentee , confined to bed suffering from the 24-hour flu bug . |
| 16 | The aid package included US$36,000,000 to help pay off debts amounting to $48,000,000 resulting from the ambitious IPSECO power station project . |
| 17 | Human readers can understand many badly formed letters and seemingly illegible words due to information gained from the surrounding context . |
| 18 | ‘ We are not talking about births , ’ Verity , veteran of TV hits ranging from Dr Who to Minder reveals from the luxury London office she shares with her Great Dane , Arthur Daley . |
| 19 | To begin with , literacy in general was not , of course , independently invented in Greece , as Goody and Watt recognise : the form of literacy particular to Greece developed from the Semitic writing system over a long period of time . |
| 20 | But his introduction to drugs came from the Paramount doctor who , under orders from studio boss Adolph Zukor , started pumping morphine into Reid to keep him working after he had suffered head injuries in a train crash in 1919 . |