Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | No thank you ’ came the rather strange reply from the dark . |
| 2 | the English working class … can never do anything decisive here in England until it separates its policy with regard to Ireland in the most definite way from the policy of the ruling class , until it not only makes common cause with the Irish , but actually takes the initiative in dissolving the Union established in 1801 , and replacing it by a federal relationship . |
| 3 | After his show yesterday we asked Fluff to tell us about the most memorable records from his 32-year career . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most memorable sequence from any Vietnam War film : Kilgore 's Air Cav attack the coastal village in Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) in a wave of scout , gunship and troop-carrying helicopters . |
| 5 | It 's a little rich coming from the former sultan of sleaze . |
| 6 | ‘ My only wish , ’ said Morse , looking now with somewhat irrational distaste at the remarkably well-preserved Lothario from Los Angeles , ‘ is to set , as you say , the record straight . |
| 7 | Club cruises start at a remarkably low price from Corfu or Rhodes with itineraries that take you to some of the most idyllic of the Greek islands . |
| 8 | Courses range from foundation courses for the complete beginner through to the most advanced qualifications from the Royal Yachting association ( RYA ) and Department of Transportation ( DTp ) . |
| 9 | His main point was that the marked differences in income and wealth persisted between the social classes throughout the inter-war years had provoked little animus and a remarkably timid response from the working class . |
| 10 | This downward mobility is now being reinforced by educational changes that operate not only to prevent the most disadvantaged children from benefiting from the increased degree of upward social mobility , but also prevent many of them entering the labour market at all . |
| 11 | The seven oils include a splendid ‘ Portrait de l'Artiste ’ , executed in his early palette-knife technique of around 1866 and signed in bold red capitals ( est. £1–1.5 million ; $1.8–2.8 million ) ; two landscapes , ‘ Maison dans les Arbres ( Auvers ) ’ of 1879 ( est. £1.4–1.8 million ; $2.5–3.5 million ) , and ‘ Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan ’ of 1878 ( est. £1.6–2.2 million ; $3–4 million ) ; a ‘ Cinq Baigneurs ’ of 1880–82 , one of the most complete canvases from the Bathers series ( est. £2.5–3.5 million ; $4.5–6.5 million ) ; and a brilliantly-coloured ‘ L'Homme à la Pipe ’ , the only surviving study for the pipe-smoking spectator in the ‘ Card-Players ’ , now in the Metropolitan Museum , New York ( est. £1.5–2.5 million ; $2.5–4.5 million ) . |
| 12 | Moreover , the large number of coins which have survived and the way they have survived in hoards has made them the most datable objects from the ancient or medieval worlds that we possess . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , since 1985 attempts have been made by the prosecution , against the most strenuous objections from Mr. Osman and the applicant , to take evidence in Malaysia pursuant to letters of request . |
| 14 | The most striking finding from this comparison ( Woll , 1983 ) is that the average percentage of similar signs in two different sign languages is 35–40 . |
| 15 | Probably the most striking shift from the public to the private sector not only in Britain , but also in France and the USA has taken place in the provision of housing . |
| 16 | The most striking difference from Smolensk lay in the large numbers of peasant communes : before 1917 most Belorussian farms had belonged to individual families . |
| 17 | She sighed and scraped a little dry clay from under her nails , letting the words of her book flow over her eyes . |
| 18 | Been talking to a few folk , a nice woman from New Zealand , and some Glasgow lads , and an incredibly chatty pseudo-zealot from California . |
| 19 | AT THE other end of the spectrum from the golden ray of new Manc pop starts , sit five crimped and rather grubby greboes from Stourbridge , Birmingham . |
| 20 | AT THE other end of the spectrum from the golden ray of new Manc pop starts , sit five crimped and rather grubby greboes from Stourbridge , Birmingham . |
| 21 | ‘ Hogg has a very badly broken nose from an unfortunate incident which saw a local player being sent off , ’ said Scotland boss Allan Hoise . |
| 22 | Aplysia may be a special case because it is easy to study , but it would be straining credulity to believe that it organized its learning behaviour along fundamentally different principles from those of other invertebrates , or indeed vertebrates with reasonably sized nervous systems . |
| 23 | That is only possible where the signer can establish ( a ) that he/she signed the document without negligence and ( b ) that he/she mistakenly thought he/she was signing a document of a fundamentally different type from that actually signed ( Saunders v Anglia BS [ 1971 ] AC 1004 ) . |
| 24 | There are no breaks in it in the sense of special divine interventions ; and while every event is in its own way particular , individual and unique , none is qualitatively of a wholly different kind from all others . |
| 25 | If no organic being excepting man had possessed any mental power , or if his powers had been of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed . |
| 26 | The appeal for Law in last year 's Library Report prompted a most generous response from Old Somervillian Lawyers . |
| 27 | Among the most conspicuous absentees from the lists of nominees were Ligachev , Medvedev and Yakovlev . |
| 28 | Hence gangs of navvies ( mainly Irish ) were set to work on the task of excavation and works ; they lived in mud huts , huts which would only offer the most primitive shelter from the elements . |
| 29 | The principle of cloze testing is based on the gestalt theory of " closure " ( closing gaps in patterns subconsciously ) and thus the cloze tests measure the reader 's ability to decode " interrupted " or " mutilated " messages by making the most acceptable substitutions from all the contextual clues available . |
| 30 | After giving due praise for the ‘ truly magnificent score o 68 gross ’ ( not an official record as a temporary green was in use ) , Jack goes on to write , with sensitive appreciation , ‘ Spare a thought if you will for Fred Willson who had handed in a card of 43 points in the same competition , a Stableford round , which in ordinary circumstances surely would have entitled anyone to anticipate receiving the most acceptable prize from the Captain . |