Example sentences of "from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The takeover target review , on the other hand , would be undertaken primarily by Strategy Services , with support from MAS and general practice , principally in contested situations or where a candidate is being analysed in detail prior to an approach being made . |
| 2 | The incidence of pancreatitis discharges increased from 46.6 to 73.4/100000/year . |
| 3 | The incidence of pancreatitis discharges in the whole population increased from 46.6 to 73.4/100000/year ( by 58% ) during the two decade study period ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 4 | from childlike simplicity |
| 5 | In conclusion to this section on depositional fabrics it can be seen that a considerable amount of information can be gained from petrographic studies which can be used to supplement field studies and gain insight into the origins of the sediment . |
| 6 | Thus the presence of many ancient meteoric vadose zones may be difficult to determine from petrographic evidence and from field/core or geochemical techniques . |
| 7 | The archaism of the settings , in short , goes along with an escapism of intention , a deliberate turning away from real life and from present-day experience . |
| 8 | We may supplement our observations on /Ε/; by considering evidence from present-day Ulster dialects . |
| 9 | It was presumably from present-day Manchuria that the Tungus tribes gradually spread northwards to pervade the taiga as far as the Arctic zone , from the Sea of Okhotsk in the east to the Yenisei in the west . |
| 10 | ‘ He travelled with us from Saudi , along the border and into Kuwait , and , amazingly enough , finished up 30 kilometres northwest of Kuwait City , which is where I last saw him . |
| 11 | Iraq 's oil production is some 1 million barrels per day less than Iran 's but its war effort has been supported by aid from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait both by direct practical aid and by gifts of oil , sent out from Saudi and Kuwaiti ports , but marketed by Iraq . |
| 12 | But round the clock televised commentary by David Dimbleby and British officer types on loan from the Gentleman 's Club Of Choice or press conferences chaired by Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf live from Saudi could never tell the whole story . |
| 13 | Oh the big fella from Saudi Air ? |
| 14 | We 've got a group of journalists , twelve journalists , from Dubai in Bath today and erm some , a wave of journalists coming in from Saudi a little later in the month , so everything 's happening and there 's a erm tremendous amount of activity going on to restimulate the market . |
| 15 | From Saudi , I R N's Phil Edwards . |
| 16 | A kindly man who is trying to nudge Mr Karimov away from repressive measures , Mr Zakhidov admitted that the government apparatus was as corrupt as ever but suggested that the president himself was clean . |
| 17 | It was one of CI5 's many ‘ dirty tasks ’ to afford protection for the lives of exiles , visitors from repressive Governments , and the representatives of Governments with which Britain maintained the most reluctant and tenuous of diplomatic relations . |
| 18 | But economic reform is passing power from central government to the provinces , and from repressive institutions to individual enterprises . |
| 19 | Durkheim then sought to show that the movement from repressive to restitutive forms of law , from those based on penal sanctions to those aimed at restoration of relations before the law was violated , was indicative of a transition from a society based on ‘ mechanical solidarity ’ , or shared values , to a society founded on ‘ organic solidarity ’ , or functional interdependence . |
| 20 | There were reports from Carole Fuller on the number of congregants which had increased from 128 to 141 over the past ten months , and on the musical life of the church . |
| 21 | The rouble has collapsed as Russia 's prices have soared : it now takes 934 roubles to buy a dollar , up from 128 a year ago . |
| 22 | In both male and female controls systolic pressures rose significantly ( p<0.001 ) from 128 to 134 mm Hg and from 124 to 131 mm Hg respectively , but there was no significant change in diastolic pressure ( 79 and 78 mm Hg respectively on both occasions ) . |
| 23 | And last but far from least , the greatest pleasure of all — and sometimes the most hard-won — freedom . |
| 24 | Once there was virtually nothing ( what there was usually only available in Japan ) , now there is a positive deluge of reissues and , indeed , of duplications from Pearl , Biddulph , Music and Arts and , far from least , from EMI . |
| 25 | increasing the proportion of Stage II over which classification is calculated ( 18/20 for BA/BSc from 18/24 ) ; |
| 26 | There were two deaths from anastomotic leakage ( one control and one PSBR rat ) . |
| 27 | Her bust has reduced from 39½ inches to 35 inches ( a loss of 4½ inches ) , her waist from 35 inches to 28 inches ( 7 inches ) her hips from 43 inches to 37½ inches ( 5½ inches ) and her widest part ( around the lower hips and thighs ) had reduced by 7 inches from 45 inches to 38 inches . |
| 28 | Over the same period BR 's annual freight tonnage fell only marginally , from 169 million tonnes to 149 million tonnes , so the reduction in size of the wagon fleet was a remarkable achievement . |
| 29 | Not coincidentally , the number of women guardians increased in that year from 169 to 877 ( Clifford 1895 ) . |
| 30 | A number of more specific indices may be calculated from aggregate death and population data . |