Example sentences of "escape from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other settlers included ‘ stray Italians , Greeks and other Europeans , Syrians and many odd mixtures … escaping from tyranny or crime , or just on the look-out for adventure or fortune ’ and , more recent arrivals , many English ex-servicemen , ‘ particularly of the officer type , unemployed , with reasonably substantial cash bonuses and other means . |
| 2 | They reacted by inventing ways of avoiding teachers ' authority , escaping from supervision and doing the things which they valued most : smoking , drinking , swearing and wearing their own variation on the school uniform . |
| 3 | Escaping from home |
| 4 | There were crates with us in the carriage ; he was escaping from home again . |
| 5 | NON-VOLATILE COMPOUNDS Food additives Pesticide residues in food Pollutants in water Plasticizers ( escaping from cling-film and some flexible plastics ) Waxes ( on some vegetables and fruit ) Medicinal drugs |
| 6 | One-third of the Jewish population of Great Britain lived there and the influx of refugees escaping from persecution in eastern Europe between 1880 and the First World War had exacerbated many of the social problems of this decaying inner city area . |
| 7 | One of those in the escape , Barry Morton , 24 , was recaptured in Liverpool on Wednesday and was yesterday remanded for a week by magistrates in Manchester charged with escaping from custody and being at large . |
| 8 | The residents of Jacarezinho , a ragged slum in Rio de Janeiro , built a bust to ‘ Half-Kilo ’ , the charismatic local strongman-cum-cocaine-trafficker who died escaping from prison . |
| 9 | ‘ Today , let's imagine that I 'm a prisoner and I 'm escaping from prison by boat , ’ said Anne . |
| 10 | Muñoz , who had ignored a leniency agreement offered by the Gaviria government in 1990 to put an end to the violence [ see p. 37772 ] , had been on the run since escaping from prison by helicopter in 1988 while awaiting trial on murder charges . |
| 11 | He admitted escaping from prison along with three charges of armed robbery and one of attempted robbery . |
| 12 | If that commitment is not made , the Government stand condemned of having betrayed a whole generation of the poorest people in our society by taking away their only means of escaping from poverty , access to education opportunity . |
| 13 | Chiloe Wigeon Anas sibilatrix , sometimes escaping from waterfowl collections , has white face , green back of head and warm brown flanks . |
| 14 | She has a miserable time , leaving home for a job in a club , escaping from reform school to hang out with drunken hoodlums and joining up with some soldiers for a bout of petty thieving that culminates in murder , and the film never allows one into the girl 's experience . |
| 15 | His first novel , The Tavern Knight ( 1904 ) , recounts the adventures of a cavalier escaping from Puritan troops after the collapse of the Royalist cause at the battle of Worcester in 1651 . |
| 16 | Will the Minister confirm that in the Prime Minister 's first year , far from escaping from short-termism , 45,000 businesses have gone under , 70,000 homes have been repossessed , 700,000 more people have lost their jobs and manufacturing investment has fallen by £2 billion this year and , according to the CBI , will fall by another £400 million even in 1992 ? |
| 17 | Many are quick and agile in escaping from danger . |
| 18 | New escape : A 22 year old prisoner was on the run today after escaping from Group 4 guards in Derby while being taken from court to jail . |
| 19 | Importunity or threats , such as the testator has not the courage to resist , moral command asserted and yielded to for the sake of peace and quiet , or of escaping from distress of mind or social discomfort , these , if carried to a degree in which the free play of the testator 's judgment , discretion or wishes , is overborne , will constitute undue influence , though no force is either used or threatened . |
| 20 | If , however , the motor trader defendant is not responsible for turning back the mileometer and covers up the reading , the motor trader should be able to escape from liability on the basis that no false description was in fact applied to the goods ( s1(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 21 | The other religious groups were Old Believers ( that is , Schismatics ) trying to escape from persecution in Russia . |
| 22 | The tradition has however tended to assume that by adopting a particular perspective ( Marxism ) it can escape the ideological effect much in the same way as science appears at times to escape from ideology . |
| 23 | Only new investment will provide the kick-start needed to escape from recession and reduce the waste of talent and energy which results from unemployment . |
| 24 | ‘ Ithell Colquhoun thus spoke for future generations of women artists when in 1943 she stressed the need to escape from gender barriers . |
| 25 | In the presence of Mick and Paddy , I acted normally , but when I was alone , and especially in difficulty , the gates which allowed me to escape from convention were opened . |
| 26 | For many people attempting to escape from state persecution , it is impossible to apply for a passport to the very authorities who are inflicting the persecution . |
| 27 | It was for a number of reasons , apart from a wish to escape from teaching , that I set out some weeks later for Libya , then a country almost entirely unknown . |
| 28 | She wants to escape from home , and the least we can do is to let her stay here for a while . |
| 29 | This touched a raw nerve in Germany , the romantic desire to escape from conflict . |
| 30 | The German romantic desire to escape from conflict and to arrive back at a state of harmony and unity is one of the most important psychological motives behind European federalism , and it ignores the basic fact that politics is always messy , divided and unharmonious . |