Example sentences of "[conj] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The importance of these spiritual disciplines is also recognized in Islam , where from earliest times there has been a certain class of men known as ‘ The Weepers ’ , who devote themselves to ascetic practices . |
2 | In 1878 , the Castle became a museum where from 1 August visitors can see the Civil War exhibition . |
3 | Attachment may be the result of friction , locking soil into irregularities in the surface or electrostatic attraction where soil and surface have opposite charges , or from chemical interaction between soil and surface made possible by a change of state of both at the interface . |
4 | The ladies would stand on the leaded roof of the projecting porch and watch the hunt run from Nether Handley to Apperknowle , or from Butchersick Farm to Moortop Farm . |
5 | But no corroboration was forthcoming , either from local residents or from former camp officials . |
6 | But even here there were signs that we were not far from the sea or from strange phenomena . |
7 | The titles of punk rock singles were then being taken from Penguin Classics , or from European cinema . |
8 | Paul 's description of the first Gentile Christians scattered round the Mediterranean coastlands of the first century AD would be true of the family into which I was born : ‘ not many wise as men reckon wisdom , not many in positions of power or from noblest families , not many wealthy ’ ( 1 Corinthians 1:26 ) . |
9 | Tamed instincts may protect the individual from vulnerability to external aggression or from emotional abandonment by one to whom he or she is fully committed in an act of love ; but in the process they also render life experiences flat and stand in the way of necessary instinctual release . |
10 | Trading down from fillet steak to mince or sausages , from Cooper 's Oxford marmalade to supermarket own brand or from real coffee to soft-focus Gold Blend is as much a symbol of the 90s as lengthening dole queues and expanding cardboard box- dwelling communities . |
11 | Biliary HCO 3 - secretion may be an important driving force for bile acid independent canalicular bile flow , although whether this secretion orginates from hepatocytes or from small bile ductules is unclear . |
12 | It came in the form of imports from the ports of Dunkirk , Le Tréport , Dieppe , and Rouen , or from home-grown stocks dispatched from stations in the Vexin , Valois , and Picardy . |
13 | Although there is no precise information about the provenance of all of these finds , it is reasonable to assume that they came from the original excavation of the ‘ villa ’ or from adjacent sites . |
14 | This is obtainable from manufacturers or from many bureaux , and will give numbers of synonyms , their distribution and comparisons with the ‘ ideal ’ randomized distribution . |
15 | When all the nasties had been driven extinct , there was no way in which any of the nice strategies could be distinguished from Tit for Tat or from each other , because they all , being nice , simply played COOPERATE against each other . |
16 | However ‘ competitive ’ the discount houses ' offer to sell bills to the Bank may look superficially , we can be certain the houses will not make offers which are very far from either the price the bank desires or from each other . |
17 | Iraq was thought to possess between 500 and 1,000 Scuds , which could be launched either at fixed sites or from mobile launchers . |
18 | Nevertheless , they should be possible to obtain from elderly patients undergoing orchidectomy in the course of treatment for prostatic cancer , or from young men undergoing infertility investigations . |
19 | Alternatively fistulas have presented later after operation ( n= 14 ) due to unrecognised Crohn 's disease ( n=4 ) , chronic obstruction at the ileoanal anastomosis ( n=3 ) , from a stitch sinus ( n=1 ) , or from possible reactivation of latent cryptoglandular infections ( n=6 ) . |
20 | Fifty per cent may come through the books , the other half tax-free and in cash either from bar takings , fruit machines or from non-existent ground repairs — such as replacing broken seats . |
21 | The second proposal , therefore , is that variations in sensitivity may depend upon receptor heterogeneity ( Box 2 ) arising from the presence of different gene products , from alternative splicing or from post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation or autophosphorylation ( because the IP 3 R can function as a protein kinase ) . |
22 | They have taken great pains to eliminate explanations based on freak signals from side walls , or from inanimate objects ( although we can not entirely discount such hypotheses until we have specifically investigated them ) . |
23 | Staff senior to the area supervisor play an active part in shaping the standard to be set only rarely , in cases involving what a supervisor described as ‘ very contentious issues : possibly major discharges from the Authority 's own works or from industrial activity where there has been a history of wrangling and debate about standards from that particular section of the industry ’ . |
24 | Some cities , such as Dar es Salaam in Tanzania , do not have enough water , either from rain or from industrial waste , to flush the sewage through the network . |
25 | The equilibrium transcript level was estimated after RNA extraction from isolated adult flies mitochondria , or from total RNAs . |
26 | A recent study by the University of Michigan suggests that 90% of the parts in Japanese cars built in America come either direct from Japan or from Japanese manufacturers which have set up shop in the United States . |
27 | The event — which last year raised over £68000 for the benefit of young people who are disabled , unemployed on probation or from ethnic minorities — consisted of numerous tests , designed to challenge the lads ' teamwork , communication , leadership and ingenuity . |
28 | The petitioner took the view that involuntary agency could not properly be distinguished either from notification au parquet , to which the authors of the Convention were clearly opposed , or from such devices as service upon a State official , typically the Secretary of State , permitted in various United States jurisdictions . |
29 | purchaser is seeking to take account of areas of potential expenditure after acquisition for events occurring prior to acquisition as identified by the purchaser 's due diligence or from other sources . |
30 | Determined to be utterly independent of Bart , he slowly worked his way up , starting as a groom and finally getting his own yard , buying ponies cheap off the race track , or from other players who could n't get a tune out of them , making them , and selling them on , which he detested because he got so fond of them . |