Example sentences of "their [noun] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the Halls , who remain the major shareholders with 42pc , will withdraw their support from the Second Division club remains to be seen . |
| 2 | On 23 November , Pollitt and Campbell withdrew their support from the initial statement and were readmitted to their positions . |
| 3 | Consistently , those elderly from the professional and managerial classes experience better health than their contemporaries from the manual occupation groups . |
| 4 | Consistently those older people from professional and managerial occupations experience better health than their contemporaries from the manual occupation groups . |
| 5 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 6 | As ‘ social dirt ’ they become an affront to purity and possess the danger of the contagious and impure ( Douglas 1966 ) , requiring their removal from the public vision . |
| 7 | This process is guaranteed by the spirits of the earth , who withdraw their protection from the human community when it is divided by quarrelling . |
| 8 | Whether they want to go or not , they take their turn and the employer had to pay a percentage into the pool what those men earned , so when those men had n't work at all they drew their money from the National Dock Labour Board . |
| 9 | Staff shortages , combined with the patients ' helplessness and their invisibility from the general public ( few visitors come to these wards ) , make it easy for private toileting or modesty to be ignored and emotional lives denied . |
| 10 | The conclusion that we have drawn from these observations , which is supported by independent experimental evidence to be discussed below , is that although people expect ellipses to take their meanings from the preceding text , they do not derive that meaning solely from a representation of the superficial features of the preceding text . |
| 11 | No , the only buggers Sam Snort has any time for are the boys down in the gay bars who have affectively tendered their resignation from the Snortian fields of romantic endeavour . |
| 12 | And er a further er fly in the ointment , if one could put it that way , will be of course with the erm the local hospital whose site is just off this er the key plan provided , their decision from the first of next month to actually charge for spaces within their area , which of course will have a further effect of decanting even more cars into neighbouring streets and thus put pressure on some of the streets which hitherto have not benefited from ah residents ' parking so there will be further er obviously further requests from er from those residents of neighbouring streets . |
| 13 | Their spring offensive in Negros Occidental province — " Operation Thunderbolt " — cleared the NPA from an area which they had long regarded as their own , but with heavy civilian casualties giving rise to criticism of their action from the Catholic Church and human rights groups . |
| 14 | The green tree ants of Australia construct their homes from the living leaves of trees . |
| 15 | In 1983 , the Labour vote held up well among those who rented their homes from the local authorities ( Table 5.7 ) . |
| 16 | This would increase the proportion of patients attracting some deprivation payment to their practice from the current 9% to about 20% of the population . |
| 17 | Spanish children get their presents from the Three Kings . |
| 18 | I wish they would buy all their groceries from the Cairnbaan Post Office as they meander past . |
| 19 | Perhaps the reason why more do not is that most people are protected by their lifestyles from the uncomfortable logic of the deficiency in their faith . |
| 20 | It is often viewed as attractive because the base is that which individuals consume ( or their revenue from the economic system ) rather than a reflection of what they contribute , i.e. income . |
| 21 | LOUIS DE POORTERE have moved their offices from the old factory complex in Warwick to smart new offices in Leamington Spa . |
| 22 | The combination of utilitarian function , personal advertisement through statues and inscriptions , and florid architectural ornament is typical of imperial buildings in the Mediterranean provinces in their heyday from the late first century to the early third century AD . |
| 23 | The attitude that smoking is anti-social is gaining currency among the more articulate , better educated and more aware groups in society , but the vicious corollary is that the tobacco and advertising industries must get their recruits from the lower end of the socio-economic scale . |
| 24 | Perhaps they and their legions are really in control , receiving their recruits from the unclean spirits in all of us . |
| 25 | Kibaki and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga , the veteran opposition leader , one-time Vice-President ( in 1964-66 ) and now leader of FORD-Kenya , were reported on Dec. 31 to have threatened to withdraw their parties from the electoral process , alleging widespread irregularities which they said in a statement were " fast pushing the nation to war " . |
| 26 | King Priam 's widow Hecuba and other women await their fate from the victorious Greeks . |
| 27 | He had also appointed professional diplomats to take over from the members of the Soviet Political Consultative Council delegated to negotiate with the Baltic states on issues arising from their independence from the Soviet Union [ see p. 38541 ] . |
| 28 | Since they won their independence from the Ottoman empire 170 years ago , there have been only three times when Greeks could justifiably feel the world was smiling on them . |
| 29 | With the rise of the Palestinian resistance movement following the 1967 war , refugee areas asserted their independence from the Lebanese state . |
| 30 | Yugoslavia slid into a state of virtual civil war after Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from the Yugoslav federation on June 25 . |