Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A distinctive , erratic song with some metallic-sounding notes coming from the hidden depths of a thicket had finally been identified as belonging to a bluethroat , surely one of the most beautiful small birds in Scandinavia . |
| 2 | They are : co-ordinating the interactions of multiple types of ambiguity , co-ordinating processes that encode different sources or types of knowledge ; co-ordinating the resolution of several anaphors in one sentence ; and co-ordinating the consideration of possible referents arising from the current sentence and from elsewhere . |
| 3 | In a special preface to their communiqué the Foreign Ministers extended to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe " the hand of friendship and co-operation " and expressed determination to " seize the historic opportunities resulting from the profound changes in Europe to help build a new peaceful order … based on freedom , justice and democracy " . |
| 4 | To take but one example from the many available , a well-known medieval armorial design comprises a shield with three spike-like shapes starting from the top edge of the shield , points downward and meeting towards the bottom . |
| 5 | In later years wave after wave of Confucian , Hindu , Buddhist , Christian and Islamic influences swept from the flowering civilizations of Asia and entwined with the pre-existing " oceanic " animism of the islanders . |
| 6 | Male ‘ sex passion ’ was either the result of stimulation from external sensations , or of involuntary influences coming from the sexual organs themselves . |
| 7 | The dual division of ecclesiastical power has also been important because the religious orders have often been the vehicle for innovative theologies differing from the Roman line . |
| 8 | Some prisoners benefiting from the general amnesty of March 7 had been detained following earlier incidents in October 1987 and October 1988 . |
| 9 | Then incongruous suburban chimes jangled from the front porch . |
| 10 | Some galleries project from the first floor of the house ; others are on barn buildings above the yard . |
| 11 | The managerialist initiatives described above represent an attempt to implant into central government selected managerial practices and cultural attitudes derived from the private sector . |
| 12 | We can no doubt separate offer , acceptance and consideration for our convenience in treating of them : but they are logical and interdependent entities abstracted from the one entire reality which is bargain . |
| 13 | Celtic chiefs , Anglo-Saxon kinglets and the ecclesiastical dignitaries of medieval and early modern Europe must have maintained their own schools of specialized craftsmen absolved from the common round of labour . |
| 14 | Each degree course involves the study of a number of different subjects chosen from the wide range offered by the faculty . |
| 15 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 16 | Five years ago the prospect of music biz power-brokers scraping over the rights to the Reading Festival would have been laughable , but then five years ago Reading was laughable , light years removed from the vital , fun , rather homely popstravaganza it is today . |
| 17 | Scott-Howard is showing Vincent Fallon 's elegant ‘ Manifesto ’ office range ( compare with the spine-bending stuff most office workers still have to put up with ) ; Erco Lighting is switching on Mario Bellini 's highly sculpted ‘ Eclipse ’ spotlight ( light years removed from the near statutory clusters of white spotlights peddled by DIY warehouses ) ; and Rodney Kinsman of OMK will be sitting on his own ‘ Trax ’ seating , designed primarily with public spaces in mind . |
| 18 | We scrambled over the chockstone of the Eye onto the plateau and wandered over shimmering snowfields to drink from the icy waters of the Garbh Uisge where it emerged from a shadowy blue tunnel before tumbling from the plateau . |
| 19 | The reaction against ‘ society ’ voiced by the Prime Minister herself was also in evidence , from the disappearance of a once influential weekly like New Society to the criticism of social workers resulting from the 1987 Cleveland cases of alleged child sexual abuse . |
| 20 | The widely-held fears stem from the reasonable assumption that an independent or a devolved Scotland would be incapable of existing without considerable handouts from Whitehall and would have an administration with more than a left-wing tinge . |
| 21 | The dearth of recent critical material in this area would suggest not , but the aim of this article is to demonstrate that the study of dramatic character may be effectively achieved by the application of theoretical principles derived from the linguistic analysis of conversation . |
| 22 | With its customary fury the northeast monsoon flung its nightly torrent of rain onto the close-packed ranks of rubber trees sprouting from the red-brown jungle soils of the Vi An plantation a hundred kilometres north of Saigon . |
| 23 | A full list is given in appendix C. Some symbols derive from the Latin names of the elements ( see table 4.2 ) . |
| 24 | Diffracted beams from such a surface are conventionally divided into two categories : integral-order beams produced by the substrate alone , and fractional-order beams arising from the combined substrate and adsorbed layer symmetry . |
| 25 | But while a majority of informed public opinion , the target of persistent lobbying over so long a period , moved decisively towards outright abolition , fortified by the anomalous decisions resulting from the 1957 Homicide Act , the views of the general public continued to be hostile and mostly out of sympathy with the prevailing climate at Westminster and Whitehall . |
| 26 | The pattern of raw materials coming from the developing world to this and other developed countries for production and sale of finished goods , often back to the developing world , has changed . |
| 27 | Further divisions arose from the growing tension between Great Russian merchants concentrated in the centre of the Empire and those from ethnic minorities — Poles , Jews , Germans , Armenians , Greeks and Tartars — on the periphery . |
| 28 | A number of interesting points arise from the above analysis : |
| 29 | THERE are only 19 people left in Zeila — mostly old men sheltering from the glaring sun in the wreckage of this ancient port . |
| 30 | About 40% of funding for the public hospitals comes from the federal government , nearly 50% from state governments , and the remainder from private health insurance . |