Example sentences of "withdrew from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopes in immediately preceding months of improving Pan Am 's financial prospects [ see p. 38123 ] had faded after another US carrier , Delta Air Lines Inc , withdrew from a deal to contribute US$140,000,000 towards a reorganization plan . |
| 2 | The question was given pertinence suddenly last month when Thompson , citing a knee injury , withdrew from a decathlon in France after only five events , already then 300 points behind the leader . |
| 3 | The killer stole £8,500 she withdrew from an account the previous day . |
| 4 | The DHAC withdrew from the chamber and said that it ‘ did not wish to become involved in another pseudo-sectarian Puck Fair ’ . |
| 5 | Five companies have been shortlisted in the bidding for 35% of the Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , this summer , Reuter reports : their indicative bids are expected in June and the sale will be completed in August and the five are Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , France Telecom , GTE Corp , Telefonica de Espana SA and STET SpA ; STET already has a $160m 20-year licence to develop a cellular mobile phone system in Greece ; AT&T Co , which had been seen as the favourite , withdrew from the bidding . |
| 6 | One other patient withdrew from the trial because of development of a painful rectum during radiotherapy . |
| 7 | However when he temporarily withdrew from the race she switched to Bill Clinton . |
| 8 | Apart from a few lesser results , the high point came at Fuji in Japan — the race that saw James Hunt crowned champion when Niki Lauda , his nearest rival , still recovering from his terrible and incendiary accident at the Nürburgring , withdrew from the race on the second lap because , as Niki said , ‘ only a fool would race in these conditions ’ — when Mario was on pole and won the race magisterially . |
| 9 | Drawing a number of bolts , she opened its door and withdrew from the interior an elderly , moth-eaten wig which she flourished in front of Huy . |
| 10 | Unless you withdrew from the society , you were deemed to have contracted into it ( see 119 , p. 366 ) . |
| 11 | The Christian Brothers , founded in the early part of the century , withdrew from the scheme and unilaterally developed their own system . |
| 12 | Originally conceived as the joint Gabcikovo-Nagymáros project under a 1977 agreement , work on the dam was suspended after Hungary withdrew from the scheme in 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] . |
| 13 | Some of the English shareholders withdrew from the enterprise and during 1570 Haug & Co. pulled out entirely having lost heavily . |
| 14 | To have intervened on either occasion might well have started a Third World War , and each time Dulles withdrew from the brink . |
| 15 | After the research period was over they did indeed change solicitor , and lawyer A withdrew from the case altogether . |
| 16 | The choice of entertainment was shrinking : in 1927 the Royal Theatre withdrew from the service , in 1929 the Winter Gardens closed and the Pavilion committee refused an installation . |
| 17 | Government troops had been landed on the north coast of Bougainville in April 1991 for the first time since being forced to withdrew from the territory in 1990 . |
| 18 | According to P&O Scottish Ferries Marketing Director , Scott Colegate , the company was asked to provide the service by the Shetland Islands Council , following the departure of Smyril Line , which withdrew from the route last summer . |
| 19 | They later withdrew from the competition . |
| 20 | At the end of April , all three withdrew from the election after being placed low down in a kind of primary contest held among the United Left 's Madrid rank-and-file to help decide who should go where on the list of candidates put before the capital 's voters ( a candidate 's position is crucial to his chances of a seat ) . |
| 21 | According to the official results of a general election held on Dec. 9 , 1985 [ see p. 34162 ] , the ruling People 's National Congress ( PNC ) was returned to power winning 42 of the 53 seats in the National Assembly ; the principal opposition party , the People 's Progressive Party ( PPP ) , withdrew from the election on polling day alleging widespread ballot-rigging by the government , but was subsequently declared to have won eight seats . |
| 22 | Under the December 1988 coalition agreement [ see p. 36948 ] a new election would automatically be called if either major party withdrew from the government . |
| 23 | The HNS , widely regarded as the strongest opposition party in Croatia , withdrew from the government on May 14 in support of Misetic 's resignation . |
| 24 | A report by Helmut Schlesinger made public on Sept. 30 indicated that the greater part of the DM44,000 million of " compulsory DM sales " by the Bundesbank in the week when the pound and the lira withdrew from the ERM had been in support of sterling ( this figure apparently excluding operations conducted on Sept. 22-23 when the franc was under particular pressure — see below ) . |
| 25 | During 1990 and 1991 they steadily withdrew from the work of all-union bodies , including the Congress of People 's Deputies and Federation Council , and suspended contributions to the USSR budget . |
| 26 | Estlin now withdrew from the BFASS , demonstrating for one last time his use as a barometer of sentiment in intra-reform relations . |
| 27 | The soldiers withdrew from the living room and went to the front of the house . |
| 28 | On the eve of shooting , the co-production partner — an offshore bank — withdrew from the project . |
| 29 | Cable & Wireless Plc also faces a $368m damages suit from its local partners after it withdrew from the project to provide telephone services in the Philippines , Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc president Eduardo Villanueva said : Cables refused to put up its share of a deposit on the $1,480m telephone project on Luzon island ; the local partners also want the government to blacklist the company . |
| 30 | He could not raise the additional finance to purchase the bacon-curing business so withdrew from the agreement , recovered his £1,000 deposit and purchased a yacht with the intention of doing charter work to the Caribbean . |