Example sentences of "[prep] refugees from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition there are smaller groups of minority elders , some of whom came as refugees from East Europe , Kenya or Vietnam . |
| 2 | Many of those affected by the relocation had left the south as refugees from the conflict there in the previous decade . |
| 3 | At the height of the troubles in 1970 , the Irish Army brought field hospitals to the border ready for refugees from Ulster . |
| 4 | Still , there was some virtue for the RCM in having the chance to compare notes with like-minded bodies such as the Society of Friends and the Christian Council for Refugees , the latter a long-sought-after but , at times , bitterly contested amalgam of the Catholic Committee for Refugees from Germany and the Church of England Committee for non-Aryan Christians . |
| 5 | Winton duly threw himself into the muddled affairs of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia , a group of diverse personalities whose good intentions far outstretched their capacity to offer constructive help . |
| 6 | The house was used for this purpose from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939 , when it was used by the Leicester committee for refugees from Czechoslovakia , until it was destroyed by enemy action . |
| 7 | Much of the land has been used for squatter settlements for refugees from the fighting in Mozambique , while other parts have been cleared for banana plantations . |
| 8 | Still to come : Oxfam pays tribute to Jordan 's help for refugees from Iraq . |
| 9 | AIBS Director David Bull has sent a letter of protest to the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , at Britain 's failure to comply with a request from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees ( UNHCR ) Britain to be ‘ more flexible ’ in its approach towards refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | The burgeoning of the property-owning democracy and the flight of refugees from city life has turned boundary disputing in the country into a sport on a scale comparable with fox-hunting or skittling . |
| 11 | LONDON — Margaret Thatcher said yesterday it was impossible for Britain to take in millions of refugees from Hong Kong and urged China to take steps to restore the colony 's confidence , AP reports . |
| 12 | At the receiving end of refugees from the Middle Volga , Rostov-on-Don was the prime source of cholera outbreaks . |
| 13 | New arrivals were also put in touch with groups of refugees from their own countries . |
| 14 | Often we can secure the release of refugees from detention if we can find them somewhere to live . |
| 15 | WEST German economists are optimistic about the country 's ability to absorb the hundreds of thousands of refugees from Eastern Europe this year . |
| 16 | Before retiring in 1951 , she had been director of the Army 's European relief project , arranging the return to Germany of refugees from Russia and elsewhere after the huge migrations at the end of the war in Europe , and was later secretary of the war graves ' department . |
| 17 | There is another way in which Eastern Europe can be seen as the prototype of things to come — the flow of refugees from East Germany and the German minorities in other countries to their rich brother . |
| 18 | As heads cleared , it was seen that dangers remained : a potential flood of refugees from the Soviet Union or the Balkans , the internal tensions of poverty and ethnic division , the giant still next door . |
| 19 | The horror stories about the Red Army transported by thousands of refugees from the east whipped up new anxieties . |
| 20 | When he admitted that there were problems in the country , he attributed these to the supposed ravages of the former Shah 's rule , the war against Iraq , the Gulf war and the influx of refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq . |
| 21 | The catchment area was a growing , upper-middle-class suburb of Johannesburg which attracted a large number of refugees from Hitler 's Europe . |
| 22 | Throughout the 1980s , Sudan has suffered not only from the disruption caused by its own civil conflict but has also experienced influxes of refugees from surrounding countries — Uganda , Ethiopia and Chad — driven by drought and war . |
| 23 | I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return . |
| 24 | The Home Secretary , Sir Samuel Hoare , noted that any influx of refugees from the continent might bring together the political extremes — the fascists who had been attacking the Jews for three years and the communists and other left-wing elements who might argue that Jewish refugees were taking away Gentile employment . |
| 25 | Boulder , Colorado is home to another new start-up , Kapre Software Inc , set up by a bunch of refugees from AS/400 applications house JD Edwards in company with one of the founders of Pyramid Technology Corp , Robert Kelley . |
| 26 | Essential Computing is a two-year-old nest of refugees from Zeta Systems and turned over £500,000 in its first year . |
| 27 | The American embassy in Seoul analysed current trends within the North Korean Labour Party ( NKLP ) at the beginning of 1950 ; it was based on various embassy records and on interrogations of refugees from North Korea . |
| 28 | The number of practitioners in these areas grows — largely , no doubt , through the genuine fascination of their subjects , but swollen perhaps with an influx of refugees from the relentless advance of technological rigour . |
| 29 | At the same time , the hectic expansion of war industries swelled the industrial proletariat by no less than a third , there was a massive influx of refugees from front-line areas , and the cities became increasingly overcrowded , insanitary and disease-ridden . |
| 30 | In the summer of 1976 , for example , a dispute between members of the group Gong over who owned the rights to the name resulted in the Virgin offices being ‘ occupied ’ by the group 's followers — a motley congregation of men , women , children and animals , with the appearance of refugees from Gandalf 's Garden . |