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

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1 The combined effect of these concessions was virtually to remove from threat of rate-capping all but about 20 ( 4.4 per cent ) of the 456 principal local authorities then existing in England and Wales .
2 Both Cosic and FRY Prime Minister Milan Panic had called for early presidential and general elections in Serbia to remove from power the republic 's hardline President Slobodan Milosevic , who was widely regarded as responsible for the continuation of the Bosnian conflict .
3 The petitioner asked for an order not to remove from care and control of petitioner .
4 Phillipson suggests that the elderly have been deliberately relegated to a reserve army of labour , and Walker concurs : ‘ Retirement is a largely twentieth century phenomenon , which has been managed to remove from employment older workers in order to reconstitute and re-skill the labour force . ’
5 By an order dated 5 August 1991 Waite J. granted the foster mother leave to apply for judicial review of the decision of the local authority to remove from placement with her the four children D. , born on 5 June 1978 , T. , born on 2 January 1980 , A. , born on 23 April 1981 , and K. , born on 21 November 1982 , who were in the care of the local authority .
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