Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Birmingham Six case was the latest in a series where convictions had been overturned in cases arising from the Irish Republican Army 's 1974 public house bombings in England , the " Guildford Four " having been freed in October 1989 [ see p. 36983 ] and the " Maguire seven " in June 1990 [ see p. 37536 ] . |
| 2 | They assume that there is a trade-off between labour-augmenting and capital-augmenting technical progress , and that firms maximize the instantaneous rate of unit cost reduction ( i.e. firms are myopic , or are able to appropriate returns for only one instant ) This ‘ innovation possibility frontier ’ captures the notion of choice but leaves open a number of questions , notably the determination of its shape and location , which must in part result from the deliberate allocation of resources to research and development . |
| 3 | Some of these are essentially historical : the interest developed in part as a reaction or antidote to Chomsky 's treatment of language as an abstract device , or mental ability , dissociable from the uses , users and functions of language ( an abstraction that Chomsky in part drew from the post-Bloomfieldian structuralism that predominated immediately before transformational generative grammar ) . |
| 4 | Micrografx staff drew attention to themselves by wandering around in gear stolen from the Mexican extras in a spaghetti western . |
| 5 | I recognized some pirated recordings of Sade in cabaret coming from the upper floor and , louder , some mid-period John Coltrane from the living-room . |
| 6 | Although assembled in units separate from the lay force , the clergy were sometimes supervised by a layman , just as occasionally clerics had charge of the lay contingent . |
| 7 | The short-term forces in question emanate from the political parties contesting the election and can be divided into three categories : the political context of the election , the candidates in the constituency and the standing in public opinion of the national parties and their leaders . |
| 8 | Most would like to see the auditor 's period away from the audit in question extended from the proposed two years ( which , as Touche Ross says , ‘ could lead to this guidance being perceived as a cosmetic exercise' ) , but can not agree over how long . |
| 9 | The damsel in question comes from the other side of the family — it 's Great-Grandma Rosenbloom , at age eighteen . ’ |
| 10 | The SNS chairman Vitazoslav Moric , who on Oct. 25 had called for a civil disobedience campaign against the language law , was in consequence recalled from the Federal Assembly Presidium by the deputies on Nov. 26 . |
| 11 | Where these double spits are found in positions sheltered from the dominant westerly winds , as at Poole , Christchurch , in Hampshire and Pagham in Sussex , it is possible to regard them as being formed by longshore drift from two directions . |
| 12 | Of greater concern was the decline in quality resulting from the increased inputs of pollutants by sewage works and industrial plants . |
| 13 | Then , in the predicate , there is the pay-off , which I should like to express , in terms derived from the preceding discussion of the meaning of ‘ I meant … ’ , by saying that what is , from outside , a sentence is , from inside , what is thought ( 54 , 290 ) , where ‘ from inside ’ refers to the thought-symbol 's actually playing the role ( 238 ) which characterises the reality in question . |
| 14 | As the Servant of Yahweh , Jesus treads the path of suffering and obedience right the way to Calvary : so much so that Peter could describe his suffering and death in terms culled from the famous prophecy of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah : |
| 15 | French legionaries have been drowned while encamped in wadis draining from the southern Atlas of Algeria , due to the rapid advance of floods from storms in the high mountains of which they had heard or seen nothing . |
| 16 | They vary considerably in size ranging from the magnificent Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal ( over 300 metres long and 36 metres above ground level ) to the much smaller Engine Arm Aqueduct on the Birmingham Canal Navigations at Smethwick . |
| 17 | The grass was added in staccatto strokes from the angular corners of a selection of Polychromos Pastels , offering a tonal scale of green colour values . |
| 18 | But within the arts , and indeed within any one discipline or medium , one can distinguish the ‘ scholarly ’ emphasis on textual and historical accuracy from the more interpretative and responsive ‘ readings ’ , which in turn differ from the active , creative mode of ‘ doing ’ the arts . |
| 19 | That confiture d'oignons , for instance , for which the recipe appeared in Michel Guérard 's Cuisine Gourmande and which has since made the tour du monde surely derived from Pomiane 's dish of sweet-sour onions in which the sweetening elements were sultanas and pain d " épices , the spiced honey cake of central Europe , and which Pomiane had in turn borrowed from the Jewish cookery of his native Poland . |
| 20 | The new districts were very largely based on amalgamations of existing district authorities which in turn derived from the sanitary districts created in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 21 | The strength of bonding in diamond derives from the small size of the carbon atoms . |
| 22 | The train newly arrived on a European covered in dust blown from the Gobi Desert , or encrusted with salt spray from the Bosporus . |
| 23 | 11.2 In relation to commercial exploitation the Non-academic Parties and the Academic Parties agree that the terms and conditions for exploitation of and licenses granted under intellectual property rights in results deriving from the Academic Parties shall have regard to the extent to which such results are incorporated in or applied to the manufacture of commercially exploited products ( particularly where there had been substantial product development outside the project ) and to the SERC guidelines which are set out in a letter from SERC dated 13 August 1984 , together with its attachments . |
| 24 | According to the Department of Industry Intermagnetics was offered £400 000 as a discretionary grant and has also received £100000 in training grants from the European social fund . |
| 25 | Studies of in vitro aggregation in diabetics date from the late sixties and early seventies . |
| 26 | Japan 's interest in Manchuria dated from the Meiji period . |
| 27 | At the time he reached his last book , Human Knowledge , he had abandoned the claim that you could show that the world could be logically constructed out of sense experiences , and adopted a much more Kantian outlook , in which , while he erm said that all our inferences about the world must begin from sense experiences , all that the philosopher can do , is to make explicit the premises that are required in order to infer from the transitory data of my own experiences to the enduring existence of material things and the much more sophisticated kinds of existence which their minute constituents have . |
| 28 | The film recovers only in the brilliantly Hitchcockian scene when Michael , in a crowded theatre , pretends to believe that the blowing , twisting red ribbons behind a vindictive ballerina ( Tamara Toumanova ) really are the fire that they represent , and panics the whole crowd in order to escape from the secret police . |
| 29 | Jesus is the Messiah who must suffer and die in order to rise from the dead and return to establish God 's kingdom on earth . |
| 30 | Her old father was extricating himself from the front seat slowly , painfully , gasping , as though he had to push open a heavy coffin lid in order to rise from the dead . |