Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE FIRST LAURA ASHLEY ARTICULATED LORRY , WITH ITS BOLD SIXTIES LETTERING , WOULD RUMBLE DOWN THE NARROW LINES FROM CARNO TO LONDON ONLY TO BE ATTACKED BY MARAUDING CUSTOMERS WAITING FOR THEIR FAVOURITE STYLES TO ARRIVE . |
| 2 | On the whole , she thought as she grilled her lamb chop , tossed the broad beans from cullender to plate and regarded the ginger-haired Tobias who had curled up companionably on a copy of the parish magazine in the centre of the kitchen table , it 's an icon of paradise : a garden I did not make , a house I 'm only partly responsible for and , above all , no human contacts unless I seek them out . |
| 3 | Maine summed up the crucial developments of human history in his famous formula of the ‘ movement of the progressive societies from Status to Contract ’ . |
| 4 | No later than early 716 Nechtan , son of Derilei , king of the Picts , approached Ceolfrith , abbot of the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow , for guidance on Dionysian Easter tables and the Roman dating of Easter ( HE V , 21 ) — probably at the time that the Northumbrian priest , Ecgberht , was persuading the church on Iona to adopt the same ( HE 111 , 4 ; V , 22 , 24 ) — and in 717 expelled the Columban communities from Pictland into Dál Riata ( AU s.a. 715 , 716 : AT p. 225 ) . |
| 5 | In 1927 she swam the 120 miles from London to Folkestone in stages ; and on 7 October 1927 , at her eighth attempt , she became the first Englishwoman to swim the Channel ( from France to England in 15 hrs. 15 min . ) . |
| 6 | These included recognition and respect for the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality by all states , in particular the Great Powers ; abstention by the ASEAN states from participation in conflicts between the Great Powers ; guarantees for the zone from the Great Powers — the United States , the USSR and China ; securing the legal rights of Great Powers in the region ; and observance of the obligation of the peaceful settlement of all disputed questions between the states participating in the zone . |
| 7 | The Corpach lock keeper suggested a German yacht waiting to ascend Neptune 's Staircase , the eight locks from sea to the first stretch of canal . |
| 8 | Two teams are running the 550 miles from Edinburgh to London down the east and west of the country . |
| 9 | It was no ordinary train , but one made up of fifty-seven carriages and hauled by no less than six locomotives that ran the fifty miles from London to the ‘ Daphne ’ of the Metropolis , as Brighton has sometimes been called ( to quote from The London Illustrated News of 7 December 1884 ) ; the journey took four and a half hours . |
| 10 | The greatest sculptures from Sicily in this period have none of this backward-looking character : the metopes from the temple of Hera at Selinus . |
| 11 | Although what is and is not acceptable in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist changes from minute to minute . |
| 12 | The Way is waymarked the 92 miles from start to finish and a book giving detailed route descriptions is available for £3.40 , including postage . |
| 13 | Karin went down with a group of 20 divers expecting to come across the usual remnants from ships like portholes and anchors . |
| 14 | there are also exhibits of bicycles , trams , motor cycles , carriages and motor cars — including the Amphicar which drove across the 30 miles from Scotland to Ireland in 1968 . |
| 15 | ‘ Charlie is not as experienced as the top men from Europe in the race , but the horse is not difficult , ’ added Hills . |
| 16 | Israel had captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and had formally annexed the territory in 1981 . |
| 17 | Rust read through the text , translating the salient points from French into English . |
| 18 | He is a modes man who appears genuinely bemused by the British reaction to him : ‘ I have always been impressed by British democracy and the irony is that — although I have differences with the British leaders from time to time — I sometimes feel my kind of federalism is better understood in Britain than by some of the federalists elsewhere in Europe who always cry , onwards , onwards ! ’ |
| 19 | Devaluation was announced on 18 November , and this was followed in January 1968 by the decision to recall most of the British forces from East of Suez by the end of 1971 . |
| 20 | Passengers will be able to travel the 3,440 miles from London to New York on Virgin flights for less than a 40-minute business-class trip across the Channel . |
| 21 | The 113 kilometres from Bucharest to Piteŝti is the only stretch of four-lane motorway in Romania and the national speed limit of 100 k.p.h. applies on it . |
| 22 | Observation of zoo animals and the few accounts from naturalists in the field suggest they are a fairly stormy procedure , consisting of mock chases , vicious swipes of the female 's paw as well as obvious kisses and caresses . |
| 23 | Latinos surged up to Hollywood Boulevard , one of the few breakthroughs from south of the Santa Monica Freeway , and trashed better-bred temples of consumption , such as Fredericks of Hollywood , the famous knicker store . |
| 24 | Approximately one hundred paintings from the museum 's permanent collection include works by all of the principal practitioners from Boudin to Pissarro , Homer to Hassam , and Sickert to Sorolla , with many lesser known followers from Norway , Belgium , Holland , Italy , Germany , Poland and elsewhere . |
| 25 | While the female crouches , quivering her wings and fluffing up her feathers , the male hops from side to side behind her , pecking at her cloaca ( the joint exit of digestive and reproductive systems ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The six months from July to December last year had a definite European theme in Lothian . |
| 28 | Advantages to the individual sub-contractors from continuity of work and reduced administration offset the marginal discount in the rates , to cover the overheads of the agency . |
| 29 | Apart from the sacrosanct hours from midday until two , the main street is quietly busy , with queues at the two boulangeries for each fresh batch of baguettes , petanque players under the plane trees , and , on Sundays , a tiny but comprehensive market . |
| 30 | But it is unlikely to find that goal outside the premier routes from London to Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds and Newcastle . |