Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] from [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mercenary captain John of Hainault brought a force of 500 men-at-arms from the Low Countries , and at York they became involved in a violent affray with a band of archers from Lincolnshire , which culminated in the deaths of a sizeable number of the Lincolnshire men . |
| 2 | The Likelihood of Economic Tie-ins From the Different Divisions Within the Conglomerate |
| 3 | A number of Royalist prisoners from the civil wars in England and Ireland were transported to the sugar islands in the 1650s as convict labour with the prospect of eventual release to become part of the white garrison , but this barely covered the losses from death and emigration . |
| 4 | Uhtred after all was an Englishman , only one of a list of would-be savers of righteous pagans from the British Isles . |
| 5 | Peasants told his collaborators that under NEP conditions not even the poorest received financial help and advice on sowing and agricultural methods from the local Soviets , as they had done previously , during the period of War Communism . |
| 6 | The 20 will be joined in the semi-finals at Cradley Heath and Ipswich on May 3 by the four top scorers from the qualifying rounds at Stoke , Exeter ( next Monday ) and Middlesbrough . |
| 7 | They can obtain fresh produce such as eggs and milk from the estate , even request a selection of fresh vegetables from the surrounding fields . |
| 8 | The accords , described as the " first step " towards closer trade , economic and financial relations between the Baltic states and the EC , provided for an end to import quotas on some products from the Baltic countries and greater economic co-operation . |
| 9 | It was also reported that work was under way to clear Iraqi mines from the coastal waters around Kuwait , in preparation for the amphibious assault which was widely expected to accompany any allied ground offensive . |
| 10 | Visitors to the city may easily fail to chance upon Portugal Place which remains an oasis of timeless calm only a few paces from the crowded pavements of the city centre . |
| 11 | Consultations between the various parties on the composition of the proposed unity government took place during December , against a background of repeated demands from the armed forces for Koffigoh 's replacement and the dissolution of the High Council of the Republic ( provisional parliament ) . |
| 12 | Part of the difficulty in compiling these accounts was that there were so few survivors from the coastal towns in the Sunda Straits which were most directly affected , and those who had survived were often too distraught and confused to give an accurate description of what they had experienced . |
| 13 | Registration districts usually cover very different areas from the administrative units that the local historian is more familiar with . |
| 14 | The shipping line had instructed the captain to lay in cheaper cuts of meat for this voyage , to remove luxury goods from the shops and free postcards from the public rooms ; but the captain largely circumvented such orders , decreeing that this journey should resemble other cruises by the St Louis and be , as far as possible , normal . |
| 15 | In the second year , language work , oral and written , is developed further , while for the study of literature students are offered the possibility of selecting their field of study from four different programmes : German Texts from the Middle Ages to the 16th Century ; the ‘ Golden Age ’ of German literature ( 1760–1820 ) ; German Literature and Society 1830–1950 ; Literature , Art and Media in 20th Century Germany . |
| 16 | How far the different statements from the English bishops and the Scottish bishops do that is a matter of personal judgment . |
| 17 | He said he still had to work out an acceptable solution to the dispute created by Israel 's deportation of 415 Palestinians from the occupied territories to an icy no man 's land in south Lebanon , where 396 of them remain . |
| 18 | The East German Communist Party leader , Gregor Gysi , issued a proposal , " Security 2000 " , which included ( i ) the halving of East and West German troop levels by the end of 1990 ; and ( ii ) the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the two countries by end-1999 . |
| 19 | Was it all a stage-managed event by the party leadership in order to distract their own people and foreign observers from the real issues facing China ? |
| 20 | Editorial teams from the winning schools will also learn how to edit the page while The Northern Echo 's Darlington head office . |
| 21 | Selections from Wordsworth usually contain short narrative passages from the early books of The Prelude ; the ‘ philosophy ’ is omitted . |
| 22 | The Minister has different figures from the official figures in the Library . |
| 23 | The brothers had a wood business , buying old trees from the various farmers , cutting them into logs and selling them around the locality . |
| 24 | The nationalist movements and the new nations which made their appearance after the Second World War thus displayed features which distinguish them in some ways from the earlier movements which led to the formation of nation states in Western Europe , because they arose in a very different international context — in a highly developed capitalist world economy , in the aftermath of a division of the world among powerful imperialist nations , and in the midst of political transformations resulting from the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 25 | Conservative policy on the inner cities has diverged in some ways from the earlier policies of the 1970s , especially in shifting away from social and environmental programmes towards an emphasis on economic and enterprise-generating ones . |
| 26 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 27 | A darker shadow inched its way along one of the walls of the Drum , a few yards from the two trolls who were guarding the door . |
| 28 | German S.P. guns and other motorised equipment were lying about the approach road in grotesque twisted shapes , victims of direct hits from the British guns . |
| 29 | When teachers are sent , most of them are ladinos , as relatively few teachers from the indigenous communities are trained . |
| 30 | Stand-offs on the forward cross spar provide positive if angular camber to form an aerofoil , but if used to force a batten into such a profile , the effect of further stand-offs from the rear cross-spars on the same batten is to form a gentle reflex , not unlike the wing section of a soaring bird . |