Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] from its [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was always envisaged that the House of Lords would use the freedom to depart from its own previous decisions sparingly , but in the years following the Practice Statement the potential impact of the new freedom was narrowed by the addition of a series of riders . |
| 2 | Only the House of Lords , acting as the Supreme Court of Appeal , has the right to depart from its own previous decisions ; and this right would be exercised only in unusual and exceptional circumstances . |
| 3 | A Boeing spokesman , Craig Martin , said that finding an equity partner for the 777 project was not a prerequisite to launching the new plane , and that the company might fund development costs from its own cash resources . |
| 4 | This sense of a future and a past for homosexuality contrasts unfavourably with the British sense of history — it would be unfortunate if the only way for a society to learn from its own history was for it to be occupied by fascists ! |
| 5 | I realise that the Club will lose interest from this , but it 's obviously a case of the bank profiting from its own mistakes , like British Telecom . |
| 6 | The property benefits from its own drive and a wider than average side access . |
| 7 | Since the Lord Chancellor 's Practice Statement [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 77 the House of Lords has considered itself at liberty to depart from its own previous decisions when it appears right to do so . |
| 8 | In that case Lord Denning argued that the Court of Appeal should issue guidelines similar to those of the House of Lords in the 1966 Practice Statement , thereby enabling the Court of Appeal to depart from its own previous decision where the decision was wrong ; in other circumstances it would hold itself bound by Young v. Bristol Aeroplane Co . |