Example sentences of "from the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Another headcrunching mixture of ‘ Jungle House ’ ( let's have another term , please : ai n't there enough jibes about black people being from the jungle in Nazis ' heads already ? ) from Rebel MC 's terrifyingly on-the-case label . |
2 | He has opened an exhibition of twenty works on paper , executed in inks , coloured crayons and pastel , by Glenn Baxter ( to 22 January 1993 ) , the surreal humorist , formerly represented by Nigel Greenwood , who derives his style and characters from the illustrations of boys ' adventure books . |
3 | Apart from the subject of drivers ' hours , the rules relating to the fitment and use of tachographs on European journeys need to be thoroughly understood . |
4 | ROI is here at its most valuable as a familiar , easily understood diagnostic tool for appraising the short-term economic performance of an organizational unit such as an SBU or division , decoupled from the evaluation of managers ' performance . |
5 | He returned , he reports , " with a dancing dwarf … from the land of spirits ' , probably a pygmy . |
6 | The judgment on what constitutes an emergency for the purpose of deviating from the rules on drivers ' hours merits close attention . |
7 | In the case of secular centres , most burghs had strips of land leading back from the market-place for burghers ' houses , vegetable plots and space for livestock . |
8 | Most initiatives arose from the ‘ movement left ’ — that amorphous network of local groupings , cultural ventures and autonomous campaigns that was the legacy of the libertarian revolts of the late 1960s and early 1970s — rather than from within the existing labour movement ( apart from the Institute for Workers ' Control , which in the mid-1970s looked as though it might become a major national forum for the newer movements of the 1970s and the earlier generation of intellectuals and trade unionists who had quit the Communist Party after 1956 ) . |
9 | In the previous recession electronics were to some extent protected from the slump by companies ' enthusiasm for replacing old technologies with new . |
10 | At best they serve to legitimize the system , give political experience to a wide cross-section of society and criticize government policy from the perspective of members ' regions and constituencies ( White et al. |
11 | The villages were separated from the town by farmers ' fields . |
12 | Rumours range from the truth through analysts ' exaggerations to blatant lies whose purpose is to make a profit or extract a dealer from an awkward position . |
13 | Because debate is framed in terms of those who are fully competent to exercise academic freedom , and because students almost by definition are not felt to be properly ‘ competent ’ , the exclusion from the debate of students ' rights is hardly surprising . |