Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 2 | Personally , I do n't even eat chicken ; I prefer my protein to come from eggs , fish and cheese — but that is a personal choice based on my own unhappiness at the way we raise animals for slaughter . |
| 3 | Although there were four possible exits from the balcony , and three different walkways for my pursuer to choose from , I could not take chances . |
| 4 | That being moved by imagining from a sufferer 's viewpoint does draw me towards his goals is sufficiently shown by my impulse to shrink from imagining as painful in itself , and liable to draw me into action against my own interests . |
| 5 | It was her opportunity to escape from this crazy and possibly dangerous game of let's pretend . |
| 6 | The United States on March 24 announced its decision to withdraw from the International Sugar Organization ( ISO ) , which brought together all major producers and consumers of sugar . |
| 7 | SECRET talks were held yesterday between United States and North Korean representatives as Washington urged Pyongyang to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |
| 8 | But they differ from normal girls in the extent to which they pursue these activities and their inability to desist from them . |
| 9 | This group of entrepreneurs would , in our imaginary world , immediately notice profit opportunities that exist because of the initial ignorance of the original market participants and that have persisted because of their inability to learn from experience . |
| 10 | FERGIE and her daughters had to mingle with ordinary travellers at Heathrow yesterday as they waited for her sister to arrive from Australia . |
| 11 | Disagreements within the FNCD , especially in relation to the Aug. 13 disturbances , led the Movement of the Organization of the Country ( MOP ) to ask its deputies to withdraw from the FNCD parliamentary bloc . |
| 12 | At a cabinet meeting on May 5th , Mr Rabin said ministers who expressed their willingness to withdraw from all of the Golan Heights , and to treat with the Palestine Liberation Organisation , had undermined Israel 's negotiators in Washington . |
| 13 | If you simply put up but people still have to use their cars to get from A to B you 're not actually improving the environment at all and it seems that adding added habits habits habits er it it seems to me that proposals that we have represented and which create improvement in a number of areas or reduce the cut in a number of areas will actually produce a much more balanced programme for nineteen ninety four ninety five . |
| 14 | Now , with Iraq sending signals , however foggy , about its readiness to withdraw from Kuwait , the allies ' decision has become tougher — and complicated by the definition of their war aims . |
| 15 | It is unique in its opportunities to establish from the outset good habits in terms of expectations of parental involvement and willingness to participate in honest exchange about the child 's progress . |
| 16 | Hungary 's preliminary announcement at the June meeting of its intention to withdraw from the Pact by the end of 1991 opened the way for Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland to announce in January 1991 their withdrawal with effect from July 1 , and Romania and Bulgaria also announced plans to leave the organization [ see p. 37979 ] . |
| 17 | Many others would not allow their animals to suffer from lack of feed or , in the case of cows , the cessation of milking . |
| 18 | The Group , which intends to operate nationally , does not set an upper limit on the size of customer , but expects 80 per cent of its work to come from companies with a turnover of between £0.5M to £5M . |
| 19 | Indeed , as experimental psychology of animals evolves from simple behaviourism — the simple response experiments of Skinner — to the more complex information-theory of positive science , it becomes ever clearer that the minds of animals — and I use the word advisedly , meaning their capacity to reason from stored information — are extremely complex , and this imposes a greater responsibility on us . |
| 20 | Consequently , if young children really do lack the ability to handle explanations , their capacity to benefit from the early years of schooling will be severely restricted . |
| 21 | The age barriers to college entry are now rapidly crumbling , giving place to a policy of open access — which means college admission to students of all ages who can demonstrate their capacity to benefit from study . |
| 22 | The Dutch , still reluctant to act without Britain , reserved their right to withdraw from the talks if they disliked the outcome . |
| 23 | It proclaimed Croatia 's sovereignty ( extending to control over its own armed forces , diplomatic relations and international agreements ) and enshrined its right to secede from Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | In the republic of Slovenia , whose referendum of December 1990 had affirmed its right to secede from Yugoslavia [ see pp. 37924 ; 38019 ] , the republic 's Assembly approved on March 7 a law allowing Slovene conscripts to refuse to serve in the JNA , and to opt instead for the Slovene Territorial Defence units or the Slovene police . |
| 25 | Nevis has its own legislature ( consisting of five elected and three nominated members ) and an executive which has exclusive responsibility for the island 's internal administration and through which its population may exercise its right to secede from the union with St Christopher . |
| 26 | Anger over their failure to benefit from increased television revenue combined with the falling value of the maximum wage of £20 in relation to average industrial earnings led to a new surge of militancy in the 1950s . |
| 27 | And the idea that I resisted her desire to vamoose from my apartment , that I was unmoved when she burst into tears — how could I , an aficionado of opera , fail to respond to lachrymosity ? — is a ridiculous exaggeration . |
| 28 | As a result of the loss of its franchise to broadcast from 31 December 1992 , the independent television contractor has changed the basis of accounting in its half year results to 30 June 1992 from a going concern to a closure basis . |
| 29 | He added that Intel has been encouraging its customers to shift from the 386 to the more powerful and more profitable 486 to counter competition from AMD . |
| 30 | Lissa thrust her belongings back into her jacket , bending her head to hide from him the secretive smile that touched her lips . |