Example sentences of "from the [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only people who dared to interrupt were the American Forces , our valiant Allies , off-duty from the many American Air Bases in the area . |
| 2 | It is not surprising that at independence most governments identified the international companies from the former colonial power as potential agents of neo-colonialism , who could not be trusted to operate with the interests of African countries at heart . |
| 3 | The strike was called by the Italian General Confederation of Labour ( CGIL ) ( with members drawn largely from the former Communist Party , the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) ) , the Christian Democrat-led CISL and the Socialist/Social Democrat-led UIL . |
| 4 | All the HZDS and Slovak National Party deputies and most of those from the former communist Party of the Democratic Left voted in favour ; all the Christian Democratic Movement ( KDH ) deputies , which had lost power in the June election , voted against . |
| 5 | All the HZDS and Slovak National Party deputies and most of those from the former communist Party of the Democratic Left voted in favour ; all the Christian Democratic Movement ( KDH ) deputies , which had lost power in the June election , voted against . |
| 6 | President Wojciech Jaruzelski on Sept. 19 yielded to the demand from the vast majority of Poland 's political forces that as an anachronism from the former communist regime he should resign . |
| 7 | An England representative team came second in the strongest open tournament of the year in Berne , Switzerland , to break the familiar stranglehold on the top prizes by players from the former Soviet Union . |
| 8 | ArtsLink Fellowships enable US charitable arts organisations to host artists and arts managers from the former Soviet Union for five-week residencies . |
| 9 | It is helped , it acknowledges , not only by research and development grants from the Israeli government , but also the current influx of brainpower from the former Soviet Union . |
| 10 | EMC Corp , the Hopkinton , Massachusetts firm making such a noise with its disk arrays for IBM Corp mainframe users , will is taking advantage of the large pool of trained talent — boosted by large numbers of immigrants from the former Soviet Union , and will open a Research and Development Center in Tel Aviv , Israel on June 1 . |
| 11 | Growing numbers of migrant workers from the former Soviet Union have been entering Poland and Turkey . |
| 12 | SHEFFIELD Church Street Branch was recently given the opportunity to foster international relations with bankers from the former Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Baker travelled from the former Soviet Union on Dec. 19 to Brussels , where he reported to the meeting there of North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Defence Ministers . |
| 14 | The problems were compounded by a shortage of coal and natural gas and uncertainty over supplies of oil from the former Soviet Union . |
| 15 | On Jan. 29 the Iranian government denied claims made in the UK press that it was seeking to recruit nuclear scientists from the former Soviet Union . |
| 16 | ( There were in addition 222,000 ethnic Germans who came to Germany in 1991 from the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe . ) |
| 17 | The report also stated that there were longstanding moves to purchase at least three 400-600-megawatt reactors from the former Soviet Union , but that these had been subject to numerous delays . |
| 18 | Both major parties ' pre-election campaigns targeted recent immigrants , particularly those from the former Soviet Union , but tended to ignore some smaller ethnic groups , such as the 25,000 Ethiopians who were perceived as barely integrated into Israeli politics . |
| 19 | There had been some 400,000 arrivals since the 1988 elections ( including 240,000 from the former Soviet Union ) , and 240,000 of them were eligible to vote , which was seen as possibly a decisive factor in what was expected to be a close electoral contest . |
| 20 | Anticipating concern about the depressed state of the US uranium industry , which had shrunk to one-fifth of its 1980 output owing to a surge in low-cost imports of commercial-grade fuel from the former Soviet Union , Bush emphasised that the deal would have " no adverse impact on American jobs " . |
| 21 | Russia agreed to assume Kirgizstan 's US$800 million foreign debt inherited from the former Soviet Union . |
| 22 | In June Austrian police had seized weapons-grade uranium reported to have been smuggled from the former Soviet Union [ see p. 38987 ] . |
| 23 | Despite the cut-off in aid from the former Soviet Union and the continuing US economic embargo , the economy had performed well , he said . |
| 24 | German and Austrian police on Dec. 8 reported detaining 16 people alleged to be involved in smuggling radioactive material from the former Soviet Union . |
| 25 | Novaceta is working hard at achieving better consistency to ensure the market share remains secure against established American competitors and potential rivals from the former Soviet Union . |
| 26 | The raising of a ‘ grain curtain ’ is threatening the economic stability of those countries which have lost the protection they enjoyed from the former Soviet empire . |
| 27 | The present constituency , redrawn in 1983 from the former Labour seat of Lichfield and Tamworth which Mr Heddle won in 1979 , showed a strong swing toward Labour in the May council elections . |
| 28 | ROLLINS BAND : ‘ Tearing ’ lifted from the former Black Flag leader 's ‘ End Of Silence ’ LP , backed with ‘ Earache In My Eye ’ recorded live in Sydney , Australia in 1990 |
| 29 | HENRY ROLLINS ( left ) embarks on his first major spoken word tour early next year , in conjunction with the release of a double album of wry wisdom from the former Black Flag frontman . |
| 30 | The second factor associated , in particular , with the applications from the former Eastern Bloc countries is that of the EEC 's trade and tariff policies , which make existence on the doorstep of a protectionist bloc increasingly painful . |