Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] from " in BNC.

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1 The Mercantile Marine Act 1850 was seen by the government as dealing with the other side of the problem — that of raising the standard of British seamen and seamanship and of protecting the seamen themselves from the tyranny of their officers and the depredations of the shipowners .
2 The curious absence of the traders themselves from this formulation reflects Morel 's concentration on winning labour to the pacifist cause .
3 It may take innumerable forms , such as scratching the panel of a coach , removing a tyre from a car , or the car itself from a garage , or , in the case of animals , beating or killing them .
4 Sun will be manufacturing the boards itself from now on .
5 Represented as a share of the market , this means that denizens increased their figure from 43.0 per cent to 49.7 per cent , the Hansards theirs from 35.6 per cent to 44.5 per cent , while other aliens , whose earlier share had been a substantial 21.4 per cent now had only 5.8 per cent ( 94 , pp.345–6 ) .
6 It was reported that Samater , the outgoing Prime Minister , was reappointed only after the failure of efforts to bring into the post someone from the Issak tribe , whose appointment could suggest some degree of reconciliation in the civil war .
7 the moon itself from
8 Sometimes during the night someone from Wouldham would run down to the opposite bank and call for the Doctor .
9 So , the tree which from which bows used in the Battle of Agincourt could have been fashioned seems set to live on for a few more generations yet .
10 And Japanese fishermen would pay huge sums for a tortoiseshell tom , to keep as a ship 's cat , for it was thought it would protect the crew from the ghosts of their ancestors and the vessel itself from storms .
11 But he might well have added a word of recognition for the conductor who from beginning to end helped bring out Björling 's superb best : Nils Grevillius ( 1893–1970 ) .
12 The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war .
13 The interpretation given by Mosley and Chesterton to such findings would suggest that there was already a pronounced anti-semitic influence within the BUF which from the autumn of 1934 onwards was officially condoned by the leadership .
14 Up to the sky itself from which the sun and moon and stars shine upon this earth .
15 Ask the child to write the word himself from memory .
16 The regularity and the mandatory nature of these papal levies caused one chronicler to lament that the pope made ‘ greater exactions from the clergy , than the emperor himself from the laity ’ .
17 It was often difficult to get schools to provide even basic information such as the breakdown of subject choice by sex , and members of the team frequently had to extract the information themselves from school data .
18 Just before the first egg is layed , the male seals the female in with a wall of clay and mud , helped by the female herself from within .
19 Figure 21.8 shows that this energy is supplied by the outward transport of energy by the fluctuations themselves from the region where the production is large .
20 It is perhaps also the feature which from a ‘ curriculum manager 's ’ viewpoint most restricts his or her professional discretion — all the more so because it is an extension of the existing educational culture : an innovation which to many people seems commonsensical , operating as it were ‘ with the grain ’ of the system .
21 She was allowed to fetch the scissors herself from the drawer in the shed .
22 This is because the ratchet entitlement is inherent in the shares themselves from when they are first issued and affects the price or value of those shares at the time of issue .
23 The 2nd Boroughbridge and 1st Kirby Hill Packs held a recycled fashion show after making all the outfits themselves from bin liners , and so on .
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