Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days later , in an attempt to win concessions from the Zulu leadership on the carrying of weapons , de Klerk flew from Cape Town to Ulundi , capital of the KwaZulu homeland , to meet Buthelezi , and his nephew , the pro-Inkatha King Goodwill Zwelithini . |
| 2 | This tendency is further emphasised by ‘ a conscious attempt to shift costs from the governmental to the private , family sector ’ . |
| 3 | He was abducted by three men and beaten up when he went with his girlfriend to collect clothes from the house where she used to live in Trowbridge , Wilts . |
| 4 | The WBC decision to split ranks from the unified world heavyweight scene has made his latest hope , Tony Tucker , certain of an early shot at new champion Lennox Lewis 's title . |
| 5 | Chief among those dismissed and allegedly involved in scandals was Pedro Paulo Leoni Ramos , Secretary for Strategic Affairs , who was accused of using his influence to win contracts from the state oil firm PÉTROBRAS for companies run by personal friends . |
| 6 | Yet it also recommends that Congress convene a Cabinet-level committee to make exemptions from the Endangered Species Act should it prove economically or socially necessary . |
| 7 | In the first ever referendum of its kind , voters in Amsterdam have supported a proposal to ban cars from the city centre . |
| 8 | This extends across all five years and gives students the opportunity to handle animals from the start of the course . |
| 9 | A breach of warranty will give the purchaser the right to claim damages from the vendor . |
| 10 | On this side of the Atlantic , it has been shortlisted for the Irish Times Prize ( which , unlike the Booker , has the courage to include authors from the US ) . |
| 11 | Now it was in decay ; we shifted foot-baths about on the landing to catch drips from the roof , which we could get no one to repair . |
| 12 | Although that right had been curtailed by s 2(2) of the 1987 Act , which requires a person under investigation to answer questions from the SFO ( or otherwise furnish information ) with respect to any matter relevant to the investigation , the effect of the immunity had been preserved by s 2(8) , which provided that a statement made in accordance with s 2 could only be used in evidence against the person who made it either on a prosecution for knowingly making a false statement ( or recklessly making such ) , or on a prosecution for some other offence where , in giving evidence , that person made a statement which was inconsistent with it . |
| 13 | He also addressed directly the unease expressed in some neighbouring countries over his government 's desire to send units from the Self-Defence Forces to assist US-led coalition forces in the Gulf war with Iraq [ see pp. 38010 ; 38098 ] . |
| 14 | If this right to emit sparks is worth more to the railway than stopping the sparks is to the farmers ( because suppressing sparks is costly , say ) , then the railway will buy the right to emit sparks from the farmers , and the damage will continue . |
| 15 | Despite Gosplan 's Marxist ideal of trying to stop uneven economic development , by the end of NEP the position had changed very little from the old Tsarist need to move commodities from the south ind cast to the more heavily populated north and west of European Russia . |
| 16 | We have no need to take lectures from the Opposition , who presided over the slashing of prison building by 29 per cent . |
| 17 | Both of them treated the case as one in which there was an implied threat by the defendant to deprive the plaintiff 's clerk of his right to take extracts from the parish register for no charge ; and both appear to have concluded that , in the circumstances , although that threat was made before the plaintiff 's clerk obtained the extracts he needed , nevertheless it was causative of the payment which was therefore recoverable on the ground of compulsion . |
| 18 | If Mrs Ebyth Morton ( Points of View , today ) was disappointed at the failure to show clips from the France-Scotland match in the BBC television news last Saturday , I wonder what she would have thought about Scottish Television 's choice on Sunday : ‘ 2:30 Scotsport . |
| 19 | The championships were organised with the Variety Club of Great Britain which gave competitors a chance to meet kids from the BBC 's Byker Grove . |
| 20 | ‘ When we have complained to British Steel they have said that there is no medical evidence to suggest emissions from the steel plant will damage health . |
| 21 | CAR component maker Behr , which makes air conditioning for Mercedes and BMW , is giving Welsh suppliers a chance to win orders from the company . |
| 22 | Palestinian activists affiliated with PLO chair Yassir Arafat 's Fatah faction had reportedly adopted a strongly anti-Iraqi line , a move which had prompted the Iraqi leadership to deploy guerrillas from the Arab Liberation Front ( ALF ) and the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) in Kuwait in an attempt to control the Palestinian community . |
| 23 | Darlington Council is providing a bus service to take visitors from the centre of Darlington to the factory site . |
| 24 | For example , most managers seek commission on gross earnings , whereas artists ' representatives attempt to reduce the manager 's commission to net earnings from the band 's live touring . |
| 25 | Since this is the nature of the economic environment within which the agent operates it is rational for the agent to use that information about her environment to draw inferences from the information that she has about the current state of the economy , that is to solve her signal extraction problem . |
| 26 | The system should allow the system manager to remove users from the system , either individually or en masse , without causing data to be lost . |
| 27 | ‘ The case of the customer who simply removes goods from the shelves is of course different because the basis on which a supermarket is run is that customers certainly have the consent of the owner to take goods from the shelves and take them to the checkout point there to pay the proper price for them . |
| 28 | Here , though , was a mature artist , in her late fifties , who had been dubbed their first Associate Artist and one who was to be given a free run of the Gallery 's Permanent Collection to make transcriptions from the work of the Old Masters . |
| 29 | The Middle East International of Nov. 23 reported that during an address to the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee on Nov. 19 , Shamir had specifically linked the territories with the need for space to absorb immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | One night a thief broke into the church to steal jewels from the Madonna on the High Altar . |