Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [noun sg] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 2 | It had long been a tradition for Roman emperors to claim descent from the gods , and on that basis to claim godhood for themselves as well . |
| 3 | Their leader , Tran Van Giau , used extreme methods to enforce compliance from the people which probably went beyond the policy of Ho . |
| 4 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 5 | This is partly due to the ability of pulses to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere , which feeds the rest of the mixture , and partly due to the little-understood symbiosis between ‘ companion plants ’ . |
| 6 | Other life insurers to draw encouragement from the bid were Britannic , up 27p to 520p , and Refuge Group , 26p higher at 604p . |
| 7 | They will have to ask permission from the match umpires before they can use their fingers to scratch mud from the surface of the ball . |
| 8 | Sefton was one of five North-West authorities to receive funding from The Sports Council . |
| 9 | ‘ Many farm businesses are under pressure just now , so we would urge planners to heed advice from the DoE and bear in mind the needs of farm enterprises in this period of great upheaval for the farming industry , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 10 | It was not unusual for a direct appeal to be made in a memorial text to casual passers-by , or for visually impressive and even amusing monuments to command attention from the side of a road . |
| 11 | Some southern cities propose building desalination plants to treat water from the Pacific . |
| 12 | The Peat Consortium , representing Britain 's leading voluntary wildlife conservation bodies including the Worldwide Fund for Nature , Friends of the Earth and the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , has campaigned for two years to halt extraction from the bogs . |
| 13 | The National Rivers Authority bought in dozens of workers to pump sludge from the river and take it by tanker for spreading on nearby fields . |
| 14 | Efforts in earlier years to raise money from the City had proved fruitless . |
| 15 | This is one of the few places to take shelter from the streets that was safe to go . |
| 16 | It is rumoured that the project is backed by an international mining consortium and there have been recent reports of attempts to enlist Yanomami from the area for military service . |
| 17 | A great deal of money and time had been spent by the 13 political associations in their efforts to win approval from the government-appointed National Electoral Commission ( NEC ) . |
| 18 | Expenses multiplied under Bell 's efforts to seize control from the society 's members . |
| 19 | That 's the only difference , because you 'll need these things to get release from the business , because it does take over your mind . |
| 20 | The successful programme of asset sales and swaps in 1992 and 1993 has further focused our business , and we will continue our efforts to add value from the considerable investments made in the North Sea . |
| 21 | Preoccupied with efforts to gain redress from the ministry , however , Bellingham had abandoned his family and moved to London . |
| 22 | So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library . |
| 23 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 24 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 25 | Most problems can be cleared by hand , using rubber gloves to lift debris from the bottom of the gulley . |
| 26 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |
| 27 | That shows how much energy is available , and it is very attractive to try and harness this , but since the turn of the century there have been over a hundred patented devices to extract energy from the waves , but we still do n't have a single commercial one operating . |
| 28 | To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will make arrangements for Members to receive output from the parliamentary channel introduced as from 13 January 1992 . |
| 29 | It effectively halted all plans to transport aid from the port , although the EPLF 's aid arm , the Eritrean Relief Association , asked for shipments to be resumed under its control . |
| 30 | The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging both sides to accept arbitration from the International Court of Justice in The Hague . |