Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports in late January spoke of a stalemate in the autonomy talks and of the effectiveness of the government 's economic blockade of Kurdistan [ see pp. 38458 ; 38598 ] which was enforced by a heavily fortified military line across north-eastern Iraq , running from Qasr-e-Shirin on the Iranian border east of Kirkuk and south of Arbil to the Turkish border west of Zhako . |
| 2 | Before the closing of the railway from Hull to the coastal town of Hornsea , Sutton was a station on the way . |
| 3 | The first of these described two arduous journeys from Constantinople via Salonika ( taking in Mount Athos , which he climbed ) across the Scardus and Bertiscus ranges , then further north into Montenegro and across the Mirdita country of central Albania ; while the second described a journey from Samsun across the Anatolian plateau , through Cappadocia , past Lake Van to Erzerum , and so back to Trebizond , the latter stretch roughly across the route taken by Xenophon and the Ten Thousand . |
| 4 | When Shah Jehan moved the court from Agra to the new city of Shahjehanabad in 1648 , it was Jahanara Begum who built the Chandni Chowk , the principal avenue of the Old City . |
| 5 | In the summer the ferry also runs from Quiberon to the little fishing port of Sauzon , which is almost postcard-pretty from a distance but given satisfying reality in close-up by the sounds and smells of its trade and the stacks of water-roughened lobster traps and water-soaked nets and floats . |
| 6 | Wally Hammond took over from Hobbs as the Great Man of English cricket . |
| 7 | John Wildig — BR from Beeching to the Present Day |
| 8 | John Wildig — BR from Beeching to the Present Day |
| 9 | Clearly established as the European success of the year after a triumphant progress from Cannes to the continental box office , CYRANO DE BERGERAC stars Gerard Depardieu in characteristic form as the 17th century soldier-poet , a stoic bearer of tragi-comic disfigurement , secretly in love with his cousin Roxanne ( Anne Brochet ) . |
| 10 | Over 15,000 piglets have died in transit from Germany at the Spanish border , after officials delayed their passage through concern that they might be carrying a newly discerned pig illness . |
| 11 | Since 1945 , when it was annexed from Germany by the Soviet Union , it has been Kaliningrad . |
| 12 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 13 | Linnaeus respected Miller 's work and corresponded with him after his return to Europe ; there are ten letters from Chelsea in the Linnaean collection covering the period from 1752 to 1768 . |
| 14 | Ex. 21 as there is an unlimited number of models to be found among the works of the great masters of orchestration from Haydn to the present day . |
| 15 | The repertoire of the Vanbrugh Quartet stretches from Haydn to the present day , and that span is reflected in the programme they are playing for the Festival . |
| 16 | Nickle moved to St Helens from Sheffield in the close season and , despite injuries , has managed to establish himself in the side . |
| 17 | The remains of Letelier were returned on Nov. 4 from Venezuela to the Chilean capital , Santiago , where they were buried in the central cemetery following a state funeral attended by President Patricio Aylwin Azócar and his entire Cabinet . |
| 18 | For Bradford 's visit , Leeds — whose squad has been strengthened by the arrival from Barrow of the Australian forward Cavill Heugh — have dropped the Great Britain prop Lee Crooks . |
| 19 | The senior course was from Windsor to the Royal Canoe Club at Teddington , taking in eight locks and a River Thames course which was choppy because of all the powered craft . |
| 20 | During his time in Israel Baker received no formal response from Shamir to the Syrian acceptance of the US plan . |
| 21 | After his ordination Siferwas perhaps moved from Guildford to the Dominican community in Salisbury or Ilchester . |
| 22 | In Turkestan , the issues were at their most stark , for the province was cut off from Moscow during the Civil War . |
| 23 | The journey from Marseilles to the Holy Land should have taken fifteen days . |
| 24 | He also took courses in Continental , European and American Drama ( from Ibsen to the present day ) ; and English Prose from Francis Bacon to the Present ( which included both fiction and non-fiction ) . |
| 25 | The lesser main road from Twycross to the local market-town of Ashby de la Zouch was to have a minimum width of twenty-two yards ; and the other roads of the parish were to be ‘ of a proper width ’ . |
| 26 | This prophecy came true when in 1870 the Dingwall & Skye Railway opened its line from Dingwall on the eastern seaboard to Strome Ferry on the west on the shores of the waters of Loch Carron . |
| 27 | They imported via Kythera two fine ornamental stones , Spartan basalt and rosso antico , from Lakonia on the Greek mainland . |
| 28 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the inhabitants of Nouvion — two hours from Boulogne on the main road to Paris — remain unaware of the fame their village 's name enjoys in Britain . |
| 30 | In A.D. 409 it was established at Ravenna and this area of the Adriatic coast from Ancona to the Istrian peninsula — designated the Ravennate — became the connecting link between Constantinople and the western half of its empire . |