Example sentences of "from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crusading Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser assails this almost weekly for its alleged distribution of ‘ jobs for the boys ’ — and girls , many from the councillors ' own families . |
| 2 | ‘ We went to local council meetings to ask for support from the councillors rather than try to stop the hunt meetings , ’ she adds . |
| 3 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 4 | Of course , these single-employer estates are not closed social fields : indeed , social networks extend outwards from the estates to include other colleagues employed by the same company who live elsewhere in Dunrossness , and perhaps also include a few Shetlanders perceived as having an equal social status . |
| 5 | We 're not from the estates . |
| 6 | Lord Dacre kept twenty-eight indoor servants at Hurstmonceux who , with a constant stream of visitors , needed prodigious quantities of food both from the estates and from farther-flung markets . |
| 7 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 8 | A less elevated but similar claim was made by Eudes II in a letter written to King Robert : ‘ If it is a question of the nature of the benefice you gave me , the fact is that it does not come from your domain , but from the estates which come to me with your consent by hereditary right from my ancestors . ’ |
| 9 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 10 | Moreover the French monarchy found itself , in the generation before 1789 , faced by increasing opposition from the parlements and to a lesser extent from the estates , normally dominated by the nobility , which still existed in one or two provinces . |
| 11 | The administrative function is demonstrated by the exchequers , bookrooms , and muniment stores of many sites , while produce from the estates was stored in large barns and granaries . |
| 12 | Banks like Childs and Hoares received the rents from the estates , made investments in stocks and collected dividends for their landed clients . |
| 13 | It is , in fact , a diversion of resources away from the priorities which existed at the end of 1988 which were to develop the management accounting skills of the NHS : particularly to promote the better use of resources through the RMI . |
| 14 | Certainly , one does not overhear such debates every day in the senior common room or students ' union , and any analysis of the curriculum as knowledge is likely to appear remote from the priorities and concerns of the average lecturer or student . |
| 15 | All these may be part of a general attractiveness but they may be quite separate from the priorities of the job . |
| 16 | So let us turn from the obstacles to applying in practice the theoretical truism in the first proposition of the Plowden Committee — that ‘ there may now well be excessive social services for some purposes ’ — and consider the second proposition — that there may now well be ‘ inadequate ones for others ’ . |
| 17 | By far the most popular parts of the speech , to go from the reactions reported by the SD , were those in which Hitler , claiming new plenipotentiary powers , attacked judges and civil servants and threatened draconian measures to root out corruption and parasitic privilege whatever the rank and status of those involved . |
| 18 | The products from the reactions with carbonyl complexes are often insoluble involatile black powders , but preparing them by using slow diffusion sometimes gives sufficient crystal growth for X-ray structure determination . |
| 19 | From rates derived from the occupiers of property . |
| 20 | It was the practice for mine trucks or waggons to be hauled by small pit horses , probably Galloways , from the hoppers out of the mine to the dressing floors . |
| 21 | They would fill the waggons from the hoppers at the shaft stations on Deep Level , then after coupling them together , say , in sets of three , the horse would be hitched on and the train hauled out to the grizzleys at the dressing floors . |
| 22 | Everyday conversation is actually highly innovative — as can be seen from the neologisms which proved to be such a major part of the lexicon of the tape recordings . |
| 23 | The Wokingham Blacks grew in number and audacity , local sheriffs were met with silence from the locals , many of whom were related to the gang , while others were fed and clothed by them . |
| 24 | I was just holding him down and I got a hammering from the locals . |
| 25 | The reason for this was that they had a different view of tradition from the locals and this caused them to turn to ‘ progressivist ’ ideas and to new ventures put forward by planners in order to effect an entry upon the local political scene . |
| 26 | During that spring and summer the Australians enjoyed a good deal of help from the locals . |
| 27 | It is worth speculating on whether , from the locals ' point of view , the proliferation of village organizations reflects not so much a flourishing of community life as a symbol of its downfall . |
| 28 | So the impression which I get from the locals , is that they 'll be happier when the flats are down . |
| 29 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 30 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |