Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capt. Laurent Sedogo , the then Minister of Peasant Co-operatives , and Lt. Francois Etienne Ouedraogo , a member of the Popular Front 's executive committee , were among six officers dismissed from the armed forces on May 23 , 1990 , to " reinforce Army discipline " . |
| 2 | Only 247 individuals appeared in both returns ; the local parish register records the burial of 61 people in the intervening period , but another 226 individuals disappeared from the local scene . |
| 3 | Tallis-Holly watched and soon three riders passed from the human world , an old man , a young man , a woman with a face like stone . |
| 4 | The aircraft took-off at 1537 hours piloted from the left hand seat ; on becoming airborne , at a position a little over halfway down the runway , the crew saw a flock of birds ahead flying just above the ground . |
| 5 | It will display over 600 objects dating from the fifth century to the present and is funded to the tune of £430,000 by the Korean Samsung corporation with a further £25,000 from the government-funded Business Sponsorship Incentive Scheme . |
| 6 | If , however , continuous variation is required , this preset can be omitted from the board and three wires taken from the relevant board points up to a conventional 1k rotary potentiometer mounted on a front panel , along with any metering . |
| 7 | Three children survived from the first marriage , John , Richard , and Alice , who married Thomas Smith [ q.v. ] , the customs official , and one daughter from the third , Elizabeth , who married Sir William Morgan of Monmouthshire . |
| 8 | There were three doors opening from the little hall . |
| 9 | More than 120 paintings dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth century have been loaned from The State Museum of Ukrainian Art , Kiev , the majority nineteenth-century portraits and genre scenes but also some fine icons such as ‘ The Miracle of Saint George ’ , second half of the fifteenth century , from the Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross , Zvyzhen ( Galicia ) , and a group of avant-garde works from the private collection of the Kiev collector Ihor Dyehenko . |
| 10 | Sites acquired included Balkwell Farm ( 130 acres acquired from the copyholder , with the Duke of Northumberland 's interest as Lord of the Manor bought out ) , the Meadowell Farm ( 135 acres bought from the Ducal estate in the 1930s ) and land at Hunt Hill and Cullercoats . |
| 11 | In the lower panels , the 32 P-end-labelled fragments used were 250 bp Xba I- Pvu II fragments isolated from the p13-152 derivatives as indicated above each panel . |
| 12 | Other lots include a seventeenth-century Florentine bronze pacing stallion from the workshops of Antonio Susini ( est. £40,000–60,000 ; $61,200–92,000 ) , and a collection of about seventy ivories dating from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries , comprising French gothic reliefs , South German concentric turned goblets , several statuettes and a number of tankards . |
| 13 | These did not , however , include the 100,000 residents evacuated from the 30 kilometre zone around the reactor soon after the accident . |
| 14 | It 's been a gloomy time in gloucestershire for industry in general , with more than a thousand jobs dissapearing from the Dowty group , the counties largest engineering employers , over the past twelve months . |
| 15 | : Table 3.8 shows the results for the first ten words selected from the relative frequency distribution list . |
| 16 | The subjects were 36 drivers taken from the Applied Psychology Unit 's subject panel , 18 male , 18 female . |
| 17 | 3 members drawn from the Regional Council or from the Education Committee ; |
| 18 | She had a friend who kept them caseless in huge straw baskets and crunched the loose cases to bits , muttering ‘ Oh , shit ’ as he wandered through to a five-by-eight foot kitchen where nine wires ran from the central lightbulb . |
| 19 | The second notable point is the one which , when the remit was published , led to much criticism of it , and which is registered in paragraph 1 of the minority report signed by three of the nine members remaining from the ten who at the outset composed the Committee : Certainly , the terms of reference specified industrial democracy as an extension of the activities of trade unions into the control of enterprises , other than public sector enterprises , by which the members of those unions were employed . |
| 20 | Thus there are over 40 contributions ranging from the single page to one of 30 as differing aspects of the conference are covered . |
| 21 | A little later , in the four years 1776–80 , over 42,000 men deserted from the British navy ; and there is no reason to suppose that this was an unusual number by contemporary standards . |
| 22 | Of 15 ministers dropped from the previous Cabinet , 13 had failed to win seats in the February 1989 elections in which the NRC had been expanded from 98 members to 278 [ see p. 36455 ] . |
| 23 | In teacher training only 1 in 40 students come from the Afro Caribbean or Asian community.In PGCE and final year Bed courses about one third of PGCE and a little over two-fifths of B.Ed . |
| 24 | Although emphasis was initially upon recognition of the variety of landscape features , sediments and structures that could be developed under periglacial conditions , the potential subsequently arose of developing a greater knowledge of phases of periglacial landscape development , and in Poland and other countries in Europe this emphasis was clearly evident in research in the 1960s and much of the research was reflected in Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1975 ) which was one of two books to derive from the earlier Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) . |
| 25 | This joint initiative did not preclude individual mediation efforts by GCC member states : in 1985 Saudi Arabia promoted an exchange of foreign ministers ' visits with Iran and made other efforts to overcome the estrangement between the two countries resulting from the Eagle-Phantom air battle and Iran 's resentment of Saudi and other GCC support for Iraq . |
| 26 | One hundred errors collected from the written work of a class on one assignment about parachute jumping . |
| 27 | In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib . |
| 28 | No. 76 , in page 40 , line 42 , at end insert — ( 2 ) For a period of two years commencing from the first transfer date , a member ( whether elected or appointed ) or an employee of a local authority , shall not be eligible for appointment as chairman , but , after that time has elapsed , no such restriction shall apply . ' . |
| 29 | There seems to be no sense in which the idea of the Commonwealth can be said to have developed from Indirect Rule , but the similarity of the language employed , and the fact that enthusiasts for one were usually enthusiasts for the other , would appear to suggest that the two ideas sprang from the same rich soil , composted over the years of imperial fact and imperial fancy . |
| 30 | The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family . |