Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would be the effect of changing the public policy insofar as it constitutes a social guide to the conditions in which individuals or groups chose from the possible adjustments ? |
| 2 | Such people think that native Australian species are usually driven extinct by superior competitors or enemies introduced from the outside world , because the native species are ‘ older ’ , ‘ out of date ’ models , in the same position vis-d-vis invading species as a Jutland battleship contending with a nuclear submarine . |
| 3 | By contrast Sofia , the capital , was the stronghold of the UDF , which comprised some 16 different parties or movements ranging from the environmental group Eco-Glasnost ( which had been the first to oppose the former communist regime — see p. 36980 ) to Podkrepa , the rapidly growing free trade union movement . |
| 4 | An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine . |
| 5 | Todd & Duncan benefited from the increased demand for cashmere and , backed by the strongest stock service in the industry , quality driven investment and new impetus in product development , made substantial overseas progress which should be maintained in 1993/94 . |
| 6 | Despite all her caution , her wriggling movements made Water Gypsy sway a little at her moorings , and once or twice she stopped and held her breath , but no movement or challenge came from the narrow boat 's main cabin . |
| 7 | In due course the usages of the frontier included regular meetings of Wardens from either side , seeking to control unrulier elements in their own jurisdiction and obtain redress for robberies or killings inflicted from the facing March . |
| 8 | Should LA leave well alone , and let syntax or semantics choose from the competing hypotheses ? |
| 9 | Even far from home , they could gain clues to the positions of , say , sea , desert or mountain ranges from the differing sound patterns these features produce . |
| 10 | Eliminating the risk element in electricity prices is the most important benefit that ICI expects from the planned 1725MW Enron power station on Teesside . |
| 11 | It is in this context that proposals emerging from the Critical Legal Studies movement in the USA are of considerable interest , and in particular Roberto Unger 's conception of a self-revising institutional structure ‘ that would provide constant occasions to disrupt any fixed structure of power and co-ordination in social life ’ ( Unger , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place . |
| 13 | The USSR became India 's main external source of weaponry and rendered extensive economic aid ; Soviet support was in part a response to the support that Pakistan received from the Chinese , with whom the Indians had an unresolved border dispute . |
| 14 | Thus , they contend that losses resulting from the automatic prohibition of mergers above a certain size are unlikely to be substantial , and are more than likely to be offset by the benefits arising from the creation of a climate of greater certainty and competition . |
| 15 | The center of gravity in employment is moving fast from manual and clerical workers to knowledge workers who resist the command-and-control model that business took from the military 100 years ago . |
| 16 | Resentful souls on Earth , tethered there by obligation or obstinacy , muttered that Capella knew from the first what would be found on Mars and why . |
| 17 | It has often been noted that Chaucer differs from the various continental analogues of the Reeve 's Tale in having this horse a stallion , thematically an astute adaptation , if adaptation it be . |
| 18 | Burton-on-Trent is one of the chief centres of the brewing industry , and legend has it that the origin of its pre-eminence was the discovery by a medieval monk that water pumped from the local sandstone after seeping through deposits of gypsum gave beer an excellent flavour . |
| 19 | She flared up , shouting that Geoffrey came from the privileged classes . |
| 20 | For all but two of the 60 mutual funds , this strategy increased returns over the three-year period , suggesting that prices deviated from the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 21 | Coburn 's script stated that Susan came from the forty-ninth century : too precise a reference for a series modelling itself on mystery . |
| 22 | Insert the cuttings by pushing each one down into the sand about 4–5 inches ( 10–12cm ) apart and with the leaves at right angles to the line of the slit , so that growth emanating from the axillary buds grows out into free space between the rows , not into the cutting next door . |
| 23 | Above all , whoever occupied the throne would have been subject to the powerful pressure that Nicholas experienced from the United Nobility , the Orthodox Church and reactionary leaders of the Right . |
| 24 | It was argued in chapter 6 that the physicality of artefacts makes them much harder than language to extricate from the particular social context in which they operate , and that for this reason they pose a particular problem for academic study . |
| 25 | But Cleveland and Northumberland switched from the recommended second Saturday in June and held their county championships last weekend . |
| 26 | It seems that , carried away by the feverish and bellicose atmosphere which was evident both on the streets of Paris and in the Assembly , Ollivier and Gramont strayed from the prepared text , firm but non-provocative in tone , and proceeded to make its content more aggressive . |
| 27 | She walked with a stagger , due to damage to the middle ear , her head swathed in a bandage and saliva dripping from the disfigured side of her mouth . |
| 28 | Towyn north beach good for dogfish but flounder and dabs reported from the southern section at Penllyn and the rifle range . |
| 29 | In either case the aim is to discover what processes and phenomena result from the physical laws governing the dynamics and expressed by the equations . |
| 30 | Loans were secured from collections in North America , Europe and the Russian Commonwealth of Independent States , of paintings , sculptures and tapestries dating from the ninth century to the present day . |