Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] from the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This country was bankrupt , and had to borrow money from the United States of America to keep going , and er , Russia had just had a revolution and was still in chaos . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The purpose was to use the brand name and , more importantly , the distribution network to increase exports from the Manaus EPZ ( Lall , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He found support in the Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts and Rubenianum in Antwerp who were able to secure funds from the Crédit Communal de Belgique for an exhibition that would display the achievement of Flemish painting as part of Antwerp 's celebrations in 1993 as Cultural Capital of Europe . |
| 6 | Local allies , it turned out , were often reluctant to accept guidance from the USSR ; some of them ( Egypt , Iraq , the Sudan and Ethiopia ) persecuted and even executed large numbers of their domestic communist party members , and others took different views on international issues ( Iraq , for instance , openly supported Somalia in the Ogaden war ) . |
| 7 | The latter Liverpool-based agency , which offers electro-acupuncture treatment to drug-dependent people , opened in December 1985 , and soon began to attract clients from the Wirral area . |
| 8 | The British government — and a substantial number of British citizens — effectively opted to exclude Blacks from the United Kingdom and deny them their rights to live as equals with other British subjects . |
| 9 | Desperate to cling to power , it had agreed to accept help from the US . |
| 10 | The cross town route one of seven schemes in the county under threat was expected to attract £2m from the EC towards the £8m needed for the first stage of the road , between McMullen Road and Darlington 's southern bypass . |
| 11 | The evidence in the two years since he took over at the club suggests Mr O'Neill 's best efforts will be enough to secure promotion from the GM Vauxhall Conference . |
| 12 | This was of narrow gauge ( 1' 11 ’ ) and opened in the same year , 1868 , to carry slates from the Hendre Ddu quarries and timber down to the railway . |
| 13 | The rising water , filling the channel , meant that it was not difficult to reach Simon from the Lock gates . |
| 14 | The Iran-US claims tribunal at the International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled on May 6 that Iran was entitled to receive compensation from the USA for non-military assets in the USA which had been frozen following the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran . |
| 15 | Potential sales of his device could be huge , says Mr Garnett , who has made two trips to the US to visit officials from the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 16 | THE latest steam locomotive to receive attention from the Midland Railway Centre 's Locomotive Restoration Workshops is 73129 , which was one of the last engines to be constructed by the Derby Locomotive Works in 1956 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The British Council , in conjunction with the Publishers Association , has set up a scheme to provide financial assistance enabling Russian publishers wanting to publish translations of UK books to purchase rights from the UK licence holders . |
| 19 | Members of the Skerne Park Community Action Group are to receive £2,000 from the TSB Foundation a charitable group set up in 1986 to encourage good causes . |
| 20 | The Hugh Bell School dosed on 1948 , and the deaf classes were transferred to Homewood in Orchard Road , in enlarged premises ready to receive pupils from the Stockton School for the Deaf which was also to close . |
| 21 | Botanists and horticulturists depended upon the good services of British sea captains to carry plants from the West Indies and North America . |
| 22 | Reynolds had on Nov. 27 , 1989 , announced a national development plan costing I£8,690 million over the period 1989-93 , aimed at improving infrastructure within Ireland in the context of its peripheral position within the European Communities ( EC ) , with the total sum to include contributions from the EC , the state and the private sector . |
| 23 | A simple but effective example of its very artificiality occurs in Marnie ( 1964 ) when , towards the end , Marnie ( Tippi Hedren ) tries to steal money from the Rutland and Co. safe ; her simultaneous attraction and repulsion is shown by rapid zooms in and out , brief and repeated . |
| 24 | A compromise Swedish scheme , incorporating elements of both the EC and the US- " Cairns Group " proposals , failed to win support from the EC , Japan and South Korea [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 25 | It was necessary to work for the ‘ maximum co-ordination of efforts between the principled radical elements ’ and to win support from the NILP and the trade unions . |
| 26 | The Congress of People 's Deputies , in its resolution of March 15 [ see p. 37300 ] , had declared the Lithuanian independence declaration unlawful , " whilst confirming the right of every union republic to free secession from the USSR [ Article 72 of the USSR Constitution ] " . |
| 27 | Every time the pollsters asked them to list the issues that most concerned them , the Scots obstinately placed those matters that fail to excite emissaries from the London media at the top — unemployment , the NHS , education — just as in comparable parts of the UK . |
| 28 | The course was organised by Wynne Norris with some financial help from Manchester Education Committee , but the only way to afford visits from the London Trainers was to raise the fare themselves . |
| 29 | One night a thief broke into the church to steal jewels from the Madonna on the High Altar . |
| 30 | INVERLEITH , who are currently fighting to avoid relegation from the Torrie Stockbrokers National Men 's Hockey League , yesterday received news they could well have done without . |