Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | Certainly I can not deduce which goals to pursue from the facts to be faced ; but will it not be a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face facts ’ that I let myself be moved , at least incipiently , in the direction in which the facing of the facts would cause me to move ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Dutch , still reluctant to act without Britain , reserved their right to withdraw from the talks if they disliked the outcome . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | PEOPLE who seem to want their names to vanish from the voters ' roll are causing a borough council problems . |
| 13 | Two members , Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins , had already stated their wish to retire from the committee . |
| 14 | Two members , Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins , had already stated their wish to retire from the committee . |
| 15 | Here , too , you have to be careful and weigh the advantages of their appearance against the disadvantages of their potential to distract from the message . |
| 16 | She put on some music while they ate and the conversation moved from the complexities of the dysfunctioning family to fertility rites to developing acting styles to the persistence of Aids to Harry Roy to the nature of joy to the repressiveness of English Fascism to the astrological outlook , and , finally to Lee , herself , to her tendency to withdraw from the group , but , ultimately , to her graciousness as their hostess and the deliciousness of her food . |
| 17 | Very sensitive to cold air , must cover their mouths to protect from the cold air . |
| 18 | It brought onto Chinese territory Russian forces whose reluctance to withdraw from the province of Manchuria sparked off the Russo-Japanese War a few years later . |
| 19 | Afterwards Jess admitted to feeling a little leg-weary over the last 20 minutes or so , but by then Willie Miller had sent on his other hot young property , Scott Booth , whose ability to leap from the bench and score drew Jess 's unstinted admiration . |
| 20 | Walsh announced his decision to retire from the government on April 2 ; although he gave no reasons , he had earlier suggested that the government lacked sufficient political will to confront the country 's grave economic problems . |
| 21 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 22 | Referring to his decision to resign from the Cabinet over the Westland affair in January 1986 , he says : ‘ I made a statement that day making it clear that I was going to continue in active politics in any role the Conservative Party wanted . |
| 23 | He succeeded Corneliu Coposu , who had previously announced his decision to resign from the post . |
| 24 | Obtain as much information as you can about his argument , his willingness to shift from the present position . |
| 25 | The Friar frowned , checked his ho-hoings and allowed his eyes to flicker from the enemies in front . |
| 26 | It was during the course of his acrimonious exchanges with the Constituent Assembly on New Year 's Day 1946 that de Gaulle evidently made up his mind to resign from the presidency . |
| 27 | Earlier Romantic interests in dream , haunting and death were revivified by Odilon Redon 's lithographs and drawings and transposed into a mawkish fascination with human decollation and disembodiment ( a prescient subject of much Surrealist interest later ) , witness perhaps of his desire to escape from the strictures of the body where only material limitation and disease existed — the concerns of eschatology , sexuality and mysticism certainly haunted Redon as they do so much Symbolist thought . |
| 28 | One of his most famous illusions was his ‘ Levitation ’ , which he first performed in 1867 , when he caused his wife to rise from the stage . |
| 29 | Given his abilities and his natural desire to go into space , it should have been a logical extension of his career to graduate from the Air Force into the Space Programme . |
| 30 | Mr Browning was no less solicitous but she read exasperation in his advice to turn from the Gospels to the Psalms , ‘ which may have a calming influence ’ . |