Example sentences of "to remove [noun] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At times it has behaved more like a cancer-prevention than an environmental agency , making such scientifically dubious decisions as wanting to remove asbestos from school buildings and to ban substances with a microscopically small risk of causing cancer .
2 Mrs Holding said the company had been using the chemical to remove PVC from Ferryhill Leisure Centre .
3 In this capacity , he attended meetings around the country to organize opposition to American attempts to remove Aoun from office in favour of a new Syrian-backed president , and later that month conferred in New York with Dr Muhamad Mugraby , Aoun 's envoy to the United Nations , and the consul general for Lebanon , Victor Bitar .
4 Plans to remove pesticides from drinking water
5 Eight water companies are to install a total of 79 treatment plants to remove pesticides from drinking water in England and Wales , in order to conform to European Community standards by 1995 .
6 ‘ Not long ago , we thought the important thing was to remove industry from state control , not ownership , ’ says Mr Marton Tardos of the Free Democrats , Hungary 's free-market liberal party .
7 Counsel has helpfully suggested that I could make an order not to remove child from place he was presently living until removed , as well as in respect of the other three children .
8 Such Communist opposition that existed , as among the London busmen in the Transport and General Workers , had been marginalized by the post 1926 attempts to remove Communists from trade unions and from trades councils .
9 THE BRITISH government 's claim that it is not necessary to remove lead from petrol received another body-blow last week .
10 In 1981 a leaked memo from the Chief Medical Officer at the DHSS warned of the dangers to young children 's intelligence posed by lead in petrol , and in 1983 a Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution published a strong recommendation that immediate action should be taken to remove lead from petrol .
11 Opposition politicians accused the government of complacency in delaying action to remove lead from petrol .
12 With Therese — who might or might not be able to sing — tucked away into a thoroughly unsuitable but static role , and Ingrid struggling along opposite him , there would be nothing , but nothing , to remove attention from Gesner .
13 In Bavaria , most of which was overwhelmingly Catholic , by far the greatest unrest was provoked by the crude attempt to remove crucifixes from school classrooms .
14 If they find their way into food operations and are used to remove dirt from aluminium surfaces they will not only be ineffective but may also cause considerable damage to the finish .
15 Ordinances had been passed since medieval times to remove rubbish from streets ( Howe 1972 ) with further Nuisances Removals Acts in 1855 , 1860 , 1863 .
16 This deterministic approach suffers by seeing the prison as existing to remove people from circulation , rather than its ideological function of social control .
17 To remove embryos from oviducts carry out the following steps .
18 The colorimetric test in which sodium diethyldithio-carbamate is used is extensively employed and gives satisfactory results when tartaric acid is added to remove interference from iron , calcium , and magnesium .
19 In the garage there was a kind of spanner , a hexagonal tube with a bar going through it , that was designed to remove plugs from engines .
20 On Saturday police were called to three town centre stores where someone had walked in and tried to remove property from staff rooms and employee 's lockers .
21 The law has long recognised the right of society to remove children from parents who are believed to be damaging them and , in recent times , has become alert to more subtle kinds of damage .
22 The pattern of the book , therefore , moves from examining the research process , through the areas of family life , child abuse , how decisions to remove children from families are made , substitute parenting after they leave home , their health and education in care , special issues affecting children in ethnic minorities , handicapped children and young offenders , what happens to those leaving care , and the consumers ' perceptions and involvement .
23 Miloš also wrote to the Austrian authorities and Metternich thought it advisable to remove Vuk from Zemun , first to Buda and then to join his Austrian wife and their two children in Vienna .
24 Although Cossiga was not empowered to remove Galloni from office , he took the unprecedented step of declaring that Galloni could no longer exercise powers delegated by the President ( who was ex officio President of the CSM ) .
25 Adding VAT to fuel and power is justified as a means of taxing pollution , but it would have been equally effective to remove VAT from insulation materials which , after all , reduce pollution .
26 To remove nut from shank the shank-to-nut state must be progressively changed from a three-zone state , through two , down to one , where the single state has two zeros and one non-zero ( this space is the mirror of the head space ) .
27 Mr Clarke explained he wanted to remove politics from police authorities .
28 Mr Clarke explained he wanted to remove politics from police authorities .
29 The eighteenth-century chemist and Unitarian minister Joseph Priestley ( 1733–1804 ) was as keen to remove spirits from Christianity as he was from chemistry .
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