Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My young friend Ed Douglas is wrong in assuming that Victor Saunders is excluded from hero-candidacy by virtue of his Gordonstoun education , but right in suggesting its irrelevance ( April issue ) . |
| 2 | Cleveland Red Cross worker Mrs Nancy Finch is retiring from office . |
| 3 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 4 | Overall , while the UK is the main beneficiary under Objective 2 ( Table 2 ) , the fact that the UK is excluded from Objective 1 assistance ( with the exception of Northern Ireland ) means that access to the vast bulk of the Structural Funds is denied . |
| 5 | Thus , women 's work in domestic food production has remained largely invisible ( see Boserup , 1970 ; Petritsch , 1985 ) , while the role of the TNCs is broadcast from television , radio , newsprint and billboards all over the Third World . |
| 6 | Palatine is going from strength to strength as an independent . |
| 7 | Both , but this one next door Bev is pushed from pillar to post |
| 8 | Their one-year-old son George is recovering from leukaemia . |
| 9 | Stigma is attached to AIDS because of strong social disapproval of the ‘ risk activities ’ by which HIV is passed from person to person and because of ignorance and fear . |
| 10 | ‘ That figure of Bres is carved from elm , the tree of Bres . |
| 11 | Overlook the oddball Cynos badge on the back ( Cynos is derived from cynosure , or centre of attention ) and the cute rear-drive Toyota coupe has plenty going for it . |
| 12 | Bede too believed that the time of Doomsday is concealed from mankind . |
| 13 | Roy Holloway is promoted from supervisor to service manager at Hygiene Bristol . |