Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , prospective employees know better than to rely on landscaping or other signals put out by employers and attempt , instead , to find out the inside story from their contacts . |
| 2 | But I 've got the inside story from my mate . |
| 3 | The tipsters and sporting gentlemen who frequent the stables and have the inside running from the horse 's mouth as well as from the trainers and jockeys suggest that if you are seeking a handsome return on an investment you should sell your house and put the money on Alain Prost to win the world championship this year . |
| 4 | The total proceeds from the income tax on wage-earners ' and small private business was £27,000 million in 1983 , while the proceeds of VAT was £14,000 million . |
| 5 | A cow or calf lost can reflect a high percentage of the total income from the farm . |
| 6 | However the total income from rent was a gross £36 6 0d : from that had to be deducted a quit rent of 13s 4d to St. Bartholomew 's Hospital , leaving 18 12 8d ( after the other deductions ) to be appropriated by the Company . |
| 7 | The total income from tourism would then equal our present income from North Sea Oil — heralded in the past as a saviour and bonanza . |
| 8 | With the fees for shooting hill stags currently averaging £200 to £250 , the total income from commercial lets is £1.5–£2 million . |
| 9 | Because BR is reluctant to talk about profits , it is difficult to gauge accurately how successful InterCity 's forage into the top end of the charter-train market has been , or how much the total earnings from charter traffic contribute to the sector 's overall profitability . |
| 10 | A 3p final dividend sees the total jump from 7.8p to 12p , payable from earnings per share up from 24.1p to 36.9p . |
| 11 | You can get the total figures from a completed P14 or P32 ( from April 1991 ) . |
| 12 | Until the past two years Drexel was right that the total return from investing in a diversified portfolio of junk bonds overcompensated for the default rate . |
| 13 | The total return from a security in a future time period is dependent on a series of anticipated and unanticipated events . |
| 14 | The £1bn allocated to cost overruns in the Offer for Sale was substantially reduced by two upward revisions of the budget which raised the total cost from £4.87bn in November 1987 to a little under £5bn in March 1989 . |
| 15 | Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme . |
| 16 | A final dividend of 2.8p ( 2.6p ) lifts the total payment from 7.7p to 8.4p . |
| 17 | Among its main points were : * the total emissions from ICI plants of pollutants to land , air and water fell from 8.6 million tonnes in 1990 to 8.3 million tons in 1991 ( down 3.7 per cent ) ; * the company had been prosecuted 36 times in 1990 and 26 times in 1991 for environmental offences , with the number of prosecutions falling in every country of operation with the exception of Britain ; * production of hazardous waste fell from 678 tonnes in 1990 to 476 tonnes in 1991 ( down 29.8 per cent ) ; * the amounts of " non-hazardous " waste dumped in landfills and in the North Sea increased , from 3,509 tons to 3,565 tons and from 150 to 170 tons respectively ; * overall energy consumption fell by 6 per cent in 1991 ( partly due to the sale of 20 subsidiaries and falling product sales ) ; * the company 's expenditure on environment-related projects reached £300 million in 1991 . |
| 18 | The CAPM ( Sharpe , 1970 ) , splits the total risk from owning an asset into two components : systematic ( or market ) risk and unsystematic ( or non-market ) risk . |
| 19 | We can see from Table 16.4 that between 1964 and 1970 the total receipts from all taxes ( including National Insurance ) rose sharply as a proportion of GDP . |
| 20 | Edinburgh District Council very nearly cancelled all evening classes in schools , but have reprieved them on condition that the fee per person rises to £30 , and the income from each class per term is the equivalent of the total fees from eleven full-paying participants . |
| 21 | Thus the total revenue from direct taxes in Edward 's reign , up to 1551 , was only about £300,000 , less than a quarter of the cost of the war . |
| 22 | Historically governments gave firms very generous allowances and permitted them to offset the costs of new capital equipment against profits , so that in practice the total revenue from corporation tax has been relatively low as a share of all revenue . |
| 23 | The total revenue from this tax was 10 per cent of government income in 1990/1 . |
| 24 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the total revenue from duty on tobacco goods in 1990 . |
| 25 | The budget for grants has been increased by £10 million and for loans by £30 million , increasing the total amount from £228 million to £268 million . |
| 26 | A long-term grain accord regulated the sale of US wheat , feed grains , soybeans and other commodities to the Soviet Union , increasing the total amount from the current 9,000,000 tonnes annually to 10,000,000 tonnes [ see also p. 37324 ] . |
| 27 | A 1.8p final dividend on June 26 sees the total cut from 5p to 3.6p . |
| 28 | She knocked loudly on the kitchen door and waited for a moment , aware of the total silence from within the room . |
| 29 | The numbers of people aged 65 and over grew from 1.7 million to 8.8 million between 1901 and 1991 , increasing as a proportion of the total population from 4.7% to 15.8% . |
| 30 | Between 1901 and 1981 the number of people in Britain aged over 65 rose from 1.7 million to almost 8 million , increasing as a proportion of the total population from less than 5 per cent to 15 per cent . |