Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The election of a unashamedly right-wing leader , John Smith , should free its members from the loyalty oaths of the Kinnock era , particularly if shadow cabinet jobs are crudely dished out to his supporters . |
| 2 | The National Trust runs its hundreds of properties as a charity … and apart from protecting its charges from the ravages of winter , covering up saves them five months dusting . |
| 3 | Surrounded by the slums of Portuguese and Arab immigrants , the campus drew its students from the middle classes , but did so under an authoritarian system of education that seemed hardly to have changed in 150 years . |
| 4 | He gave the example of a two-year Community Skills course in a local college that drew its recruits from the special schools . |
| 5 | The value of A 2 is a measure of solvent-polymer compatibility , as the parameter reflects the tendency of a polymer segment to exclude its neighbours from the volume it occupies . |
| 6 | The NSFU found it necessary to escort its men from the vessel through the BSU pickets , with their branch secretary French at their head , while the BSU men , led by Shinwell , were determined not to let them pass . |
| 7 | After this paper was completed , the UK government announced its conclusions from the consultation process that had followed publication of the Green Paper on Abuse of Market Power in November 1992 . |
| 8 | The fishermen will get all this information for nothing : the fisheries information centre receives its funds from the government and fishing organisations . |
| 9 | Women left behind by the emigrants , ‘ widows ’ who had not heard from their husbands for decades , daughters growing up without fathers , without grandfathers , without brothers -once they too were old enough to leave — were hungry for men , everyone knew that , and the law made its profits from the devils — Greed and Lust and Envy — that scampered among humans playing a deadly tag in which all the players are caught and brought down , one by one . |
| 10 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 11 | The NL had managed successfully to screen its activities from the attention of historians and political commentators to this day , but it was not so lucky with the relevant authorities . |
| 12 | Also , if the deceased person leaves any estate , the local authority will claim its expenses from the legal personal representative . |
| 13 | Some eight hours later , and for the next four days , it sets about the task of ejecting its companions from the nest . |
| 14 | Some 150 people were thought to have died in the Bougainville conflict before the government withdrew its forces from the island in June 1989 . |
| 15 | The Church of Ireland withdrew its schools from the plan which threatened that church 's dominance over the primary sector . |
| 16 | Where the European issue is concerned , the weakness of this overly consensual approach is underlined by the fact that the Foreign Affairs committee ( which has a sub-committee on European affairs ) takes its instructions from the Foreign Ministry . |
| 17 | It is therefore vital that there be some concept of inheritance , whereby a chunk takes its properties from the chunk that linked to it . |
| 18 | There is no record of its occupying caves at any time , but it must always be remembered that a woodland species in cave country could drop its pellets from the tree in which it is roosting to fall into or near cave openings , so that even without entering a cave the pellets of such a predator could accumulate inside the cave ( see p. 96 ) . |
| 19 | Appeals from decisions in more serious cases ( heard originally by the Crown Court ) go to the Court of Appeal ( criminal division ) , which draws its members from the Lord Chief Justice , the Lords Justices of Appeal and the judges of the High Court . |
| 20 | The Belfast branch , for instance , with 700 members , draws its officers from the civil service , the Electricity Board , local software houses and the University of Ulster . |
| 21 | This magic draws its powers from the land , and is concerned with the manipulation of chill , frost , and biting winds . |
| 22 | The emphasis on animals as endangered species may take its roots from the historical preferences of naturalists and scientists . |
| 23 | It lived in freshwater lakes in southern Pangaea in the later Permian , and became less of a sprawler , swinging its limbs from the shoulders to the hips , thus lengthening its stride . |
| 24 | Finally in November 1935 the Committee decided to withdraw its members from the ILP and to join the Communist Party . |
| 25 | During 1990 and the first half of 1991 relations altered dramatically with the Soviet Union , which , struggling with momentous internal political and economic problems , made major cuts in its aid programme to Vietnam , and a cutback in the Soviet naval and air base at Cam Ranh Bay ; in October 1990 the Soviet ambassador to Vietnam announced that the Soviet Union had started to withdraw its troops from the base . |
| 26 | Only Preston managed to save its commons from the vultures , and to transform some of them eventually into public parks . |
| 27 | Confidence is such that Walker is looking to expand its operations from the US , Canada and UK to the South East and Western Europe to — with announcements to this effect expected in the summer . |
| 28 | Confidence is such that Walker is looking to expand its operations from the US , Canada and UK to the South East and Western Europe — with announcements to this effect expected in the summer . |
| 29 | The enraged animal freed its antlers from the brambles and with a springing bound , crashed into Yanto 's protective cage of saplings . |
| 30 | By 1800 , societies had been founded in provincial capitals all over Spain and the whole movement was centralized in the Madrid Society , ‘ receiving its impulses from the provinces and reflecting those influences thither strengthened ’ . |