Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still on the first of these two categories , more can be said about Potidaia from the Athenian Tribute Lists . |
| 2 | The two chief rivals for Dalmatia from the ninth century to the twelfth were the Croats and the Venetians . |
| 3 | Why were the large new steelworks and rolling mills built in a different part of Sheffield from the old cutlery works ? |
| 4 | For readers already familiar with the transmogrification of Sheffield from the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire to something altogether more ‘ pragmatic ’ , you could be forgiven for believing that the drama unfolding around the boardroom table was just one more step along this route , with committed socialists playing the stock market with the best of them . |
| 5 | In the courtyard is a wooden statue of Hercules from the second quarter of the 18C , attributed to L. Widmann . |
| 6 | LIMA — Peru is to propose the expulsion of Panama from the so-called group of Eight at the third summit of Latin American presidents beginning today because of the refusal of its military dictator , General Antonio Noriega , to institute democracy , writes Simon Strong . |
| 7 | Princess Victoria waved to the people of Swanage from the little window within the pediment . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , he condemned that same deluded world for its previous exclusion of Spain from the European Recovery Programme , thereby exacerbating the effects of a long period of exceptionally low rainfall . |
| 9 | Anglican polemicists had promised that they would allow the Dissenters some degree of toleration , if they helped them protect the Church of England from the Catholic onslaught , whilst the bishops in their petition affirmed that they did not act " from any want of due tenderness to Dissenters , in relation to whom they are willing to come to such a temper as shall be thought fit , when the matter shall be considered and settled in Parliament and Convention " . |
| 10 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 11 | Its 1,360cc four-cylinder engine , mated to a five-speed gearbox , is new , having been developed specially for the new generation of AXs from the mainstream-car petrol engine . |
| 12 | IN SEARCH of ‘ Socialist Realist ’ art styles , New York art dealer Paul Judelson recently shipped two statues of Lenin from the Soviet Union to offer for sale in America . |
| 13 | He had previously pedalled his way to make the first cycle crossings of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco , and of Lapland from the Arctic Ocean to the Baltic Sea . |
| 14 | The omission of IBM from the initial list is down to its lack of commitment to open systems , according to John Hille , D&B 's director : ‘ When we chose the platforms there were other vendors more committed to open systems . |
| 15 | The removal of Franca from the upper storey was perhaps the sign that her arrival was imminent . |
| 16 | A referendum on the independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union was held on Sept. 21 . |
| 17 | The scenes between Hilarion , Giselle , Albrecht and Bathilde are reminiscent of the scenes that develop Tybalt 's hatred of Romeo from the first fight between Montague and Capulet to his discovery of Romeo with Juliet after their first meeting at the ball , and finally to the fight that ends in Tybalt 's death . |
| 18 | The demonstrators held banners demanding both the secession of Georgia from the Soviet Union and the full integration of the Abkhazian republic , which had itself been seeking to secede from Georgia and to resume the union republican status it had enjoyed from 1921 until 1931 . |
| 19 | The mayor of the the island of Capri has suggested that negotiations be opened at a diplomatic level for the return of the Altar of Cybele from the British Museum . |
| 20 | He also accused Western forces of aggression and demanded more understanding of Iraq from the international community . |
| 21 | At this village north of St Austell is the Wheal Martyn China Clay Works , now preserved as an open-air museum of the industry that brought prosperity to this part of Cornwall from the mid-eighteenth century , when William Cookworthy , a Plymouth Quaker and apothecary , discovered kaolin , the chief ingredient of porcelain , which had been a secret closely guarded by the Chinese for over a thousand years . |
| 22 | The expulsion of Cripps from the Labour Party in 1939 increased the probability that the Labour Executive would take action against the Club , which had publicized his " Unity Memorandum " , though not officially supporting it . |
| 23 | Similarly , Jacqueline Hill was a strong contender for the part of Barbara from the very start , thanks to her critically acclaimed part in the TV play Six Proud Walkers . |
| 24 | The Belgian government has ordered the first multi-language version of Chemdata from the National Chemical Emergency Centre . |
| 25 | The procession , which included only the Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Kent from the Royal Family , arrived at the chapel in pouring rain . |
| 26 | THE NARROW stretch of sea dividing the island of Skye from the Scottish mainland is embroiled in a debate over private investment in road building . |
| 27 | Lambeth Palace Library ( London ) The library holds registers of the archbishops of Canterbury from the thirteenth century onwards , and the archives of many societies connected with the Church of England , together with those of bishops and statesmen . |
| 28 | Costing about £150,000 , the exhibition traces the development of trams in towns and cities throughout Britain from the Victorian era . |
| 29 | Milton adopts a classical tragic high style and models Samson to participate in Renaissance humanist parodia Christiana , the transference of Classical literary principles to Christian settings , a methodology common throughout Europe from the fifteenth century onwards especially among neo-Latin writing . |
| 30 | Dyson got off on the wrong foot with Morris from the very beginning , even though Morris politely stopped writing while Bob introduced them , and sat back in his chair to look at Dyson . |