Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You can get the total figures from a completed P14 or P32 ( from April 1991 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Underwater successes include the fabulous treasures from the Atocha , a Spanish treasure galleon wrecked off the Florida Keys . |
| 8 | This order of magnitude of improvements is reflected in the interim results from the first ten projects . |
| 9 | THE FIRST LAURA ASHLEY ARTICULATED LORRY , WITH ITS BOLD SIXTIES LETTERING , WOULD RUMBLE DOWN THE NARROW LINES FROM CARNO TO LONDON ONLY TO BE ATTACKED BY MARAUDING CUSTOMERS WAITING FOR THEIR FAVOURITE STYLES TO ARRIVE . |
| 10 | On the whole , she thought as she grilled her lamb chop , tossed the broad beans from cullender to plate and regarded the ginger-haired Tobias who had curled up companionably on a copy of the parish magazine in the centre of the kitchen table , it 's an icon of paradise : a garden I did not make , a house I 'm only partly responsible for and , above all , no human contacts unless I seek them out . |
| 11 | On Saturday Mrs Totteridge had ridden in the morning and then at lunchtime had checked her goat with the attendant events from which the whole enquiry had followed . |
| 12 | Maine summed up the crucial developments of human history in his famous formula of the ‘ movement of the progressive societies from Status to Contract ’ . |
| 13 | The door snapped shut behind Duvall as he came , muffling the hideous sounds from below . |
| 14 | Hard by , the persistent salesmen from the Union Society ( membership £70 ) , offered a green plastic folder crammed with professional-looking information sheets . |
| 15 | No later than early 716 Nechtan , son of Derilei , king of the Picts , approached Ceolfrith , abbot of the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow , for guidance on Dionysian Easter tables and the Roman dating of Easter ( HE V , 21 ) — probably at the time that the Northumbrian priest , Ecgberht , was persuading the church on Iona to adopt the same ( HE 111 , 4 ; V , 22 , 24 ) — and in 717 expelled the Columban communities from Pictland into Dál Riata ( AU s.a. 715 , 716 : AT p. 225 ) . |
| 16 | MARSEILLE owner Bernard Tapie will today sue the French soccer authorities following UEFA 's decision to ban the European champions from this season 's competition because of allegations of bribery . |
| 17 | ‘ So , where 's this body ? ’ one of the uniformed guys from Strathclyde asks . |
| 18 | Oh well , I should take advantage now Mark is in , bring the damn things from there . |
| 19 | Among the painted sculptures from the first decade of his activity as an abstract artist are ‘ Midday ’ ( 1960 , MOMA , New York ) , ) , ‘ Prairie ’ ( 1967 , NGA , Washington ) and ‘ Early One Morning ’ ( 1962 ) which the Tate Gallery was persuaded to loan only after Caro had agreed to supervise its restoration at the end of the exhibition . |
| 20 | One train , the 15.4 hrs from Quainton and the 16.15 hrs from Aylesbury on Sunday was cancelled on Sunday for several reasons while the gauging run for King Edward was only carried out an hour prior to departure from Aylesbury of the first ACE . |
| 21 | Although the offer was not completely rejected by the Palestinian side , they made it clear that it fell short of Palestinian aspirations for a legislative council to take over control of the occupied territories from Israel [ see p. 38837 for Palestinian self-government proposal tabled at the fourth round of talks ] . |
| 22 | The sun was shining , the air was warm , and the low murmurs from the radio were beginning to make Juliet feel drowsy . |
| 23 | Also there were major repairs to property to decide on , as well as seasonal considerations , and orders to transmit , with regard to land use of many thousands of acres , the annual survey of cattle and horse stock and especially the great sheep-hirsels in the Lammermuir Hills , the wool from which , largely exported to Flanders and the Low Countries from Berwick-on-Tweed , constituted the lordship 's principal source of wealth . |
| 24 | Gold , scarlet and blazing flame I had seen before , but never like this , washing over the low clouds from below , and backed by the most delicate and limpid green which faded to primrose and then into the shadowy greys of the upper sky . |
| 25 | Consider two beautiful compositions with Athena : the Augean stables from the east ( fig. 121 ) , the Stymphalian birds from the west ( fig. 122 ) , both stories with a Peloponnesian setting . |
| 26 | Indeed the durable models from England listed by Capelle and Vierck ( 1971 ; 1975 ) are mostly later in the period , and may signify a period when larger scale replication was possible ; put the other way , a time when individual designs were no longer necessary , and the functional aspect was becoming more important . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a bit noisy , ’ said someone from Lotus as the booming voices from Microsoft and Borland reverberated around the hall . |
| 28 | Whereas the excavation of settlements can throw light on the useful activities of ancient societies , it is from burials not previously looted by treasure-seekers that archaeologists have recovered artefacts shaped by the finest craftsmen from the most precious substances , veritable trophies of the forces of emulation responsible for the rise of human civilizations . |
| 29 | The intention was for them to be escorted by the combined fleets from Brest and Toulon and the combination of the two , to outnumber any force likely to be brought against them , was a vital part of the French plan . |
| 30 | The possible benefits from this strategy are customer loyalty , exclusion of competitors , less price competition and increased profit margins . |