Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The Czechoslovak government faced a demand from Sudeten Germans for material compensation for their expulsion from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War . |
| 3 | The Humber Tavern , built 1808 , was where the landlord used to try to attract visitors from Hull with a bathing machine . |
| 4 | Before the closing of the railway from Hull to the coastal town of Hornsea , Sutton was a station on the way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The bank made shipments from Timbuktu in the Middle Ages , when African gold was at its finest . ’ |
| 7 | From left : climbing out from Guernsey with a visiting training sailing ship below ; Trislander over Alderney , whose airport may be seen in the background ; the island of Herm on a hazy autumn day , with Sark in the background ; Trislander 's single-pilot-panel — very functional , with mixture knobs oddly set on top |
| 8 | There are many interesting walks around the town and on the Dales and it is also possible to take a mini-bus tour from Middleham of the popular areas of Wensleydale and Swaledale , with a local resident acting as guide . |
| 9 | First was Robert Maxwell , who in 1984 achieved his long ambition to play the press baron role and won the Mirror papers from Reed at an acceptable price . |
| 10 | ‘ Ma mother — ‘ she told Jane , ‘ came from Tennessee in a covered wagon . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , there was high praise from Pringle for the Scottish bowlers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Wally Hammond took over from Hobbs as the Great Man of English cricket . |
| 15 | Unfinished ton and a pair from Murray on a foreign expedition ( 4 ) |
| 16 | John Wildig — BR from Beeching to the Present Day |
| 17 | John Wildig — BR from Beeching to the Present Day |
| 18 | The exception is Old Sarum , Old Salisbury , reoccupied for a time by folk fleeing from Wilton in the Danish raids of the opening of the eleventh century — and it survived to be the site of a cathedral and a Norman castle . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Since 1945 , when it was annexed from Germany by the Soviet Union , it has been Kaliningrad . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Memorex Telex NV has come under the Standard & Poor 's Corp microscope and the ratings agency cut its the rating on its Memorex Telex Corp unit 's $510m 10% guaranteed senior notes due 1998 to B-minus from single-B with a negative rating outlook . |
| 24 | Over a period of five days teams of people walked , ran , cycled , rode , paddled and sailed from Inverness to the Western Isles , taking with them a marble stone — a 1,200 year old saintly relic of St Ronan . |
| 25 | Her parents used to live just inland from Brighton in a converted windmill . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Sometimes there were short races between the Bletchley and Newport workmen 's trains as both were booked away from Wolverton at the same time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The slightly grudging tone is revealing : the AMMA , like most other teaching unions , campaigned against the funding of schools from Whitehall during the last Parliament . |