Example sentences of "from [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Astor 's North-West Fur Company had a small fleet of sailing ships on Lake Erie , transporting furs from warehouses on the Canadian shore to ports at the east end of the lake .
2 Secondly , they can be a result of wider journalistic efforts either from contacts with the police , or from interviewing people associated with the rape in some indirect way , either near the time of the offence , or the trial , or even , in a few cases , some time later .
3 Given changing pressures on the land — from shifts in policy to the prospect of changes in our climate — we simply have to know which soils can sustain which uses .
4 There is independent evidence for a change to a more oceanic climate with increased precipitation and strong winds at 4300 — 4000 B.P. ( see Birks and Williams , 1983 ) , possibly resulting from shifts in the Atlantic storm tracks due to changing positions and strengths of the Azores high and Iceland low .
5 Mick from Projects at Peel Park and his wife Wendy won Strathford 's ‘ Fordrive ’ competition with the opportunity to join other winners at Knockhill race track in Fife .
6 Apart from projects of a more institutional nature , for example the one involving the emigration of German-speaking art experts , is Hamburg University 's Art History Department engaged in any other of a more methodological kind ?
7 Protection where the BEC builder is employed by the customer ( known as a standard contract ) is being increased from projects worth £500-£40,000 to those worth £500-£100,000 .
8 The Tate Gallery 's exhibition continues this process of reassessment through a selection of those earlier works dating before 1960 and including a rare coloured canvas , ‘ Untitled ( Orange Painting ) ’ , which was created in 1955–59 and has never been shown , although it is known from illustrations in catalogues .
9 Lucien had never seen an Ixmaritian priestess in the flesh before , but he recognised her robes from illustrations in the sacred texts of Paradouze : a long green gown of soft linen covered by a darker green tunic of embroidered , stiffened cotton .
10 Parliament created a limited form of protection from builders with the Defective Premises Act 1972 .
11 We are asking all Amnesty supporters , from groups to individuals , trade unionists , students and religious bodies , to set aside one weekend/day/evening in the coming 12 months and …
12 More centrally , in the cerebral cortex the afferent fibres from groups of receptors are ‘ wired together ’ so that more complexly patterned stimuli — such as edges or lines of a certain inclination — may preferentially elicit neural activity and the corresponding subjective experience .
13 Bookings are only accepted however , from groups of people who have a leader who will be responsible for them .
14 Neural networks are useful for process control because they can interpret so-called soft sensor readings — the inferred measurements from groups of sensors ; can cope with complex , variable systems ; and can be used to build statistical models .
15 One is to convey some sense of where a child is in the process of learning ; the other is to make easier the analysis of results from groups of children .
16 Not everything in the CNAA 's and the colleges ' procedure was conducive to innovation , but the ripple effect from groups of staff having ‘ to think out their own courses ’ was probably one of the most immediate invitations to innovation in the early years of the CNAA .
17 Thereafter would it not be possible to from groups of say eight people who live in the same area to cope with the tea ?
18 Faecal samples from groups of horses should be examined at regular intervals to monitor drug efficiency .
19 The Dewsbury case also focused attention on the difficulties of accommodating the preferences of parents drawn from groups with diverse cultural and religious differences , especially where these interests conflict with the ‘ rights ’ of the state to promote a policy of multicultural education in the interests of racial harmony and integration .
20 Parties are usually distinguished from groups by their intention to seek control of the main offices of government .
21 The centre responds to requests for productions from groups in and around Bangalore with the understanding that they are used for the purposes of education and social development and that they reflect the principles of Christian communication .
22 Many of the gradual developments are likely to come from groups in the Oxford environment .
23 Ideas from groups like Voice for Young People in Care are appropriate .
24 Omissions cases falling within manslaughter by recklessness or gross negligence have also been set apart from cases of positive acts .
25 It is not always easy to distinguish cases in which a Convention rule is to be treated as precluding the solution to a question that might otherwise be available under the applicable national law from cases in which the Convention rule is to be interpreted as not covering the question at all .
26 There was a dull pain in his lower jaw , from hours of teeth-clenching , and the fingers of his right hand flexed and unflexed spasmodically , like those of an elderly arthritic .
27 The evidence , whether in the form of a time series or a cross-section of individuals , industries or regions , comes not from taxation directly but from hours of work supplied at different wages net of tax — which , of course , is not quite the question at hand .
28 The rapid increase in the number of firms engaging in more than one type of investment business and the blurring of demarcation lines ( for example , between brokers and jobbers ) have made it more important than ever that investors are adequately protected against abuses arising from conflicts of interest within investment businesses .
29 In addition , those rivalries enabled him in peacetime to go on playing his wartime role of common denominator ; the arbiter who remained detached from conflicts of particular interests ; the provider of unity .
30 Investor protection legislation overlaps with both prudential and structural regulation in that the investor is in theory protected from financial institutions becoming insolvent through excessive risk-taking and protected from conflicts of interest by separation of types of business , but also extends much further into the manner in which investment business is carried out — the size of commissions , advertising regulations , cold calling etc .
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