Example sentences of "from its [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estate was organic from its beginning in the Seventies , with a large proportion of the wonderful Herault wild herb garrigue retained as habitat for pest predators . |
| 2 | The Grand Army had been marching along the west bank of the Goldbach , parallel to enemy , and away from its base in the Austrian capital . |
| 3 | However , the collapse in the birth rate from its peak in the mid 1960s , which was primarily responsible for this , was itself a major event with long-term implications . |
| 4 | What is even harder for historians to estimate is the extent of the fall in population before 1377 from its peak in the earlier years of the century , whether or not this point was reached around 1300 , the most generally accepted date , or on the eve of the cataclysm caused by the Black Death . |
| 5 | Debt net of cash has been reduced more than 60% from its peak in the third quarter of 1989 and debt net of cash to capital ratio is now 42% compared with a peak 61% in second quarter 1991 ; the company 's goal is to get to 25% or less . |
| 6 | In the past three months output has fallen by an annualised 10.8% from its level during the three previous months . |
| 7 | Indeed commentators on test-case litigation in both the UK and the USA appear agreed that the main value of test-case litigation derives from its contribution to the broader process of political mobilisation rather than from any direct change in the law which it might be expected to bring about . |
| 8 | If I am lucky a red fire-boat may come storming up from its station on the Grand Canal . |
| 9 | The second function which gives the Bank power to influence financial markets derives from its management of the National Debt . |
| 10 | It had been woken from its sleep by the central heating and in a state of despair and paranoia dive-bombed the double glazing in a vain effort to escape . |
| 11 | From its rediscovery in the early fifteenth century Polybius ' history was taken in turn to be a treatise on constitutional forms , a handbook for army officers and a guide for politicians , especially diplomats . |
| 12 | From its terminus at the new roundabout on Glasgow Road , the Sighthill Section follows a gently curving alignment in a southerly direction for some 4.7 km ( 3 miles ) until it connects with the northern end of the Colinton Section close to Clovenstone Roundabout on Westerhailes Road . |
| 13 | However , the film 's impact derived more from its depiction of the dehumanising effect of war . |
| 14 | THE risk of war with the former Soviet Union may have vanished , but plenty of fighting is still going on ; not least over which military bases should be shut down as the Pentagon tries to trim $1.1 billion from its budget over the next four years . |
| 15 | On Thursday Mrs Marian Flowers , CHC member and herself a diabetic , criticised the district for again omitting any such appointment from its budget for the 1992–93 financial year . |
| 16 | The silence was broken by the clip-clop of hooves as a horse was led from its stable at the far side of the courtyard by an Indian . |
| 17 | From its inception through the late 1960s and into the 1970s the courses proposed to , and approved by , the CNAA remained predominantly in science and technology . |
| 18 | It will bring with it some very focused ideas about binary compatibility and implementation issues that face the industry , derived from its experience with the 88000 . |
| 19 | It 'll bring with it some very focused ideas about binary compatibility and porting issues that face the industry , derived from its experience with the 88000 . |
| 20 | As time went on , and the sultans who succeeded Mehmed II built their own medreses , the Sahn slipped from its position as the highest class of medreses , and , in the fully elaborated hierarchy , is only the sixth of twelve grades above the 40-akce level . |
| 21 | Like the Royal Society from its foundation in the 1660s , the BAAS was kept off questions touching party politics or religion , partly in the belief ( or hope ) that real science could and should be value-free , and partly for pragmatic reasons — an unwillingness to alienate any group . |
| 22 | As a trans-Pyrenean kingdom , Navarre lasted from its foundation in the ninth century until the sixteenth century , when it got broken in two , Spanish Navarre becoming Spanish in 1512 while French or Basse-Navarre was incorporated into the French crown in 1589 , when its current king became king of France as Henri IV . |
| 23 | The catechumens and candidates have been going through the process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( R.C.I.A. ) and in his sermon Bishop Brewer gave an outline of the R.C.I.A. 's activities from its foundation after the Second Vatican Council in 1972 to the present . |
| 24 | However , the outcome will be interpreted as a considerable victory for WPP in its attempt to stop the movement of staff and advertising clients from its subsidiary to the rival shop . |
| 25 | MAI was also released from its guarantee of the outstanding bank loans of MAI Deutschland , its former German subsidiary , which was about $8m as of March 15 . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the content of an indexed paragraph is not obvious from its reflection in the semantic net . |
| 27 | The bird jumps from its nest at the last minute and runs off making a special squeaking call . |
| 28 | Called by Olybrius ' anger , the dragon rushed on crimson wings , down from its home in the cold north . |
| 29 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 30 | The quivering line of Southern Italian black figure vase-painting , so different from its counterpart on the Greek mainland in its general insouciance and amiability , was being drawn in Rubi more than two thousand years before Davide was born . |