Example sentences of "of [pron] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheap petrol at present does not reflect the true environmental costs of global warming and the effects on the health of everyone from the atmospheric pollutants discharged by road vehicles . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , by 1911 there were only 89,000 12–14 year olds in such state-aided secondary schools , and 33,000 aged 15–18 , few of them from the working class . |
| 3 | Between 1914 and 1918 almost 900,000 British Empire soldiers had died in the trenches , most of them from the working class . |
| 4 | Gifts were part of the occasion too : 3,500 children gathered in the Town Hall on the morning of 1 August , 3,000 of them from the Baptist Sunday schools and the rest from the Lancasterian and Infant Sunday schools , and were each given a booklet commemorating the end of apprenticeship . |
| 5 | Nor did he for any of the other hopeful interviewees , most of them from the national papers . |
| 6 | Perhaps after all it was nothing more than that the man reminded him of someone from the old days , and it was not unknown for people from the palace compound to slum in the harbour quarter now and then . |
| 7 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 8 | As she passed through the gate , to walk beside the stream , Bob Lamb caught sight of her from the other bank of the beck . |
| 9 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 10 | She could see the lights of it from the upper windows but never got any nearer . |
| 11 | Given that about 7 million tonnes of surplus straw is produced each year , much of it from the cereal-growing area of East Anglia in my constituency , does my hon. Friend agree that it is an important source of energy ? |
| 12 | In a tough speech to the Crime Reporters ' Association he said the IRA would cease their evil trade if they could see the level of public support given to the police — much of it from the Irish community . |
| 13 | Aha and that gets rid of it from the front page . |
| 14 | And then some at Jailside Parkses and in the , during the winter months we used to , we had a spot to meet about half a dozen of us from the various factories , because we were afraid to walk home through and that way er because men used to wait in Lane . |