Example sentences of "[to-vb] from the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Yates freely admits he was happy to pinch from the French New Wave — voice-over , jump cuts , freeze frames and a certain improvisatory quality — the techniques as used here are too self-regarding . |
| 2 | Overseas participation enables American , European and Japanese banks to benefit from the dynamic industrial growth experienced by some NICs . |
| 3 | Mr Angell responded that it would not be feasible for Moscow to leap from the present unconvertible rouble to the complex Western system of floating exchange rates , or to a dollar or yen-backed rouble . |
| 4 | If Labour suddenly seemed old and unelectable , a real youthful challenge to the Thatcher regime seemed to come from the new Social Democratic Party . |
| 5 | That was an odd comment to come from the right hon. Gentleman who , judged from his comments in recent days , would not have accepted the social charter . |
| 6 | The biggest European danger to Millar seems likely to come from the six-strong German contingent , who include two of their Seoul Olympic gold-medal team , Franke Sloothaak and Ludger Beerbaum . |
| 7 | The purpose of my question was to extract from the right hon. Gentleman what he thought was meant not by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department but the new clause . |
| 8 | But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up . |
| 9 | But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up . |
| 10 | Mrs Smith said that there was a presumption that parliament , when legislating , did not intend to depart from the existing common law unless it expressly said so . |
| 11 | I am trying to tease from the right hon. Gentleman what he thinks is the meaning of the new clause that he invites the House to adopt . |
| 12 | Strathclyde roads department says the most it expects to receive from the European Regional Development Fund in the coming financial year is £7.5 million . |
| 13 | Mourning helps us to escape from the many different kinds of self-imprisonment . |
| 14 | I want to hear from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East , because the Opposition must now come clean . |
| 15 | It was argued in chapter 6 that the physicality of artefacts makes them much harder than language to extricate from the particular social context in which they operate , and that for this reason they pose a particular problem for academic study . |
| 16 | The decoration on the discs , which seldom have names on , is usually either a variation of the Christian monogram IHS , or else the so-called ‘ Basque cross ’ , which is a little like a four-leafed clover and has sometimes been argued , in an attempt to find an origin for the Basques in the East , to derive from the old Hindu symbol of the swastika . |
| 17 | Although emphasis was initially upon recognition of the variety of landscape features , sediments and structures that could be developed under periglacial conditions , the potential subsequently arose of developing a greater knowledge of phases of periglacial landscape development , and in Poland and other countries in Europe this emphasis was clearly evident in research in the 1960s and much of the research was reflected in Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1975 ) which was one of two books to derive from the earlier Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) . |
| 18 | The " New Greece " that was to emerge from the heroic social project had been postponed until a future date . |
| 19 | Any European Common Foreign and Security policy which includes Swedish and other neutral interests must be less effective even than that which can be expected to emerge from the current unsatisfactory record of EEC action in foreign affairs . |
| 20 | In 1950 there were 174 000 students at the universities just beginning to emerge from the painful post-war reconstructions . |
| 21 | Mm there 's the Bare Naked Ladies er they come from Canada they are a brilliant group I think they 're brilliant I do n't care I like them and that 's called er Be My Yoko Ono I was going to go from the Bare Naked Ladies it was all planned I was going to go and say Mary Whitehouse how are you today and she was there er un unfortunately we 've we called this is serious . |
| 22 | AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations . |
| 23 | They turned , staying in the centre of Cheapside as the melting snow began to slide from the sloping tiled roofs . |
| 24 | There was to be no self-dramatisation and nothing that would set Amnesty International apart from the very people that it was seeking to protect from the same potential threat . |
| 25 | The crested ibis faces certain extinction in Japan after attempts to breed from the sole remaining pair have failed . |
| 26 | However , it may be noted that overtly ‘ theatrical ’ pieces tend to have key schemes to match from the earliest French cantata collections onwards , copying now stage action scenes in helping to dramatize the text , now divertissements in functioning independently from it . |
| 27 | The process is confined to low-viscosity magmas , such as basalts , in which the crystals are able to separate from the active thermal boundary layer during convection . |
| 28 | In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause . |
| 29 | The German government , citing cost and changed security needs following the end of the Cold War , confirmed on June 30 that it was to withdraw from the multinational European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) project . |
| 30 | The Government has not had an economic policy since it was forced to withdraw from the European Monetary System and let the value of the pound plummet . |