Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somalia , July 1992 ; children fight over a bag of rice , the loser 's left to lick what 's left off his shirt , while 2 others pick scraps from the ground . |
| 2 | However the use of radio and TV wave frequencies for transmitting programmes from the earth is rivalrous . |
| 3 | Soviet customs regulations were to be maintained in Lithuania ( the Lithuanian government on March 17 had announced plans to curb exports from the republic , including introduction of Lithuanian-run border checkpoints ) , and guards were to be posted around nuclear power stations and " other very important sites which are all-union property " . |
| 4 | A statement to input values from the console input device ( usually keyboard ) . |
| 5 | The single ‘ Teethgrinder ’ was born out of a programme called American Conversations , which in one episode dealt with a girl who ground her teeth down to her gums in her sleep , while ‘ Nurse ’ also features ‘ Accelerator ’ , the tale of a joyrider which was written after seeing a police chase in Manchester — and later recalled images from the film The Driver . |
| 6 | For books he had two by Maurice Sendak , the Skeleton one , and a well-worn 108 Pinocchio using pictures from the film . |
| 7 | Access is also to be extended to Eastern Europe , using funds from the Community 's PHARE programme under a separate contract between the EC and PTT Telecom : Poland , Hungary , Czech and Slovak Republics , Bulgaria and Romania are to be connected into the system . |
| 8 | The state 's expanding role threatened capitalist development by drawing funds from the sector of production for profit into the state sector . |
| 9 | I got books from the library to read . |
| 10 | The RC needle is simply a remote indication of the loop aerial which receives signals from the ground station . |
| 11 | If I start accepting funds from the government , people will lose that charitable ideal that I want to leave behind me when I 'm gone . ’ |
| 12 | The kidnappers were believed to have demanded a ransom from Unocal , which operated a power plant in Laguna Province and had reportedly received demands from the NPA to pay US$5,000,000 in " revolutionary taxes " . |
| 13 | While in most cases this will be unnecessary for pupils , it may initially be an advantage for the school librarian or teacher for producing lists from the database . |
| 14 | And today 's young hi-fi enthusiasts may be astonished to learn that the Paris Theatrophone transmitted performances from the Opera , the Opera Comique and Theatre Francais to the Paris Exhibition of 1881 in stereo ! |
| 15 | The Minister has heard speeches from the chairman of the Energy Select Committee and all its members , including my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley , Central ( Mr. Illsley ) and the hon. Member for Erewash ( Mr. Rost ) , who have been privileged to listen to expert witnesses . |
| 16 | But we can all do our bit to eliminate polluting products from the market . |
| 17 | The bill also incorporates proposals from the Lord Chancellor 's Civil Justice Review , which recommended an overhaul of civil court procedure to speed up and simplify cases and make litigation cheaper . |
| 18 | The bill also incorporates proposals from the Lord Chancellor 's Civil Justice Review , which recommended an overhaul of civil court procedure to speed up and simplify cases and make litigation cheaper . |
| 19 | He probably learned his surveying skills from the land surveyor , Thomas Clerke , to whom he was assistant by 1589 , and possibly in 1587 , and continued as such until Clerke 's death in 1602 . |
| 20 | Total of revised equipment spending for Type I telecommunications carriers ( those companies licensed by the Ministry to operate on designated frequencies , was $20,600m , while Type II carriers , which lease frequencies from the Type I carriers , invested $1,490m , an increase of 14% over 1991 . |
| 21 | Kirton spent a year as an All Black selector when Hart was out of favour and now seems embroiled in a television commentary career which largely involves tearing strips from the referee and running a one-man coaching clinic at the same time . |
| 22 | The journeymen who were employed " to do all the tasks the women did not " , as well as to train the novices , meant that they were mixed offices from the start . |
| 23 | She has telegrams from the Queen and the Houses of Parliament . |
| 24 | Thinking , and the effects of emotions like stress , also trigger signals from the brain , in the same way that movements affect muscles . |
| 25 | In acquiring privileges from the papacy this was very frequently one that was given a very significant place . |
| 26 | In particular , the period from 1929 to 1931 , when the PCF was dominated by the unrelentingly sectarian leadership of Barbe and Celor , seemingly obsessed with the sole task of eliminating deviationists from the party line , with all the catastrophic consequences that this entailed ( reduced party membership , loss of electoral support , reduced sales of L'Humanite ) , represents a dark period in the history of the party itself . |
| 27 | The House had radically amended the bill in April 1990 by lifting almost all restrictions on off-duty political activity , but the version passed in the Senate — by 67 votes to 30 on May 10 — retained prohibitions against running for partisan political office or soliciting funds from the public . |
| 28 | The implication of this is that context does not function to exclude candidates from the cohort . |
| 29 | Wheels and parts of the cars ' undercarriage were scattered along the track as rescue workers struggled to pull survivors from the wreckage of the train in the Amsterdam suburb of Hoofddorp . |
| 30 | You ca n't merge addresses from the address book into a document , nor can you input data from the database into it . |