Example sentences of "[prep] they from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dean of York presided and addressed the gathering for nearly an hour on the subject of " The History of the Deaf and Facts about Them from the Earliest Era " . |
| 2 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was inevitable that an attraction should have blazed between them from the first . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , by 1911 there were only 89,000 12–14 year olds in such state-aided secondary schools , and 33,000 aged 15–18 , few of them from the working class . |
| 5 | Between 1914 and 1918 almost 900,000 British Empire soldiers had died in the trenches , most of them from the working class . |
| 6 | Gifts were part of the occasion too : 3,500 children gathered in the Town Hall on the morning of 1 August , 3,000 of them from the Baptist Sunday schools and the rest from the Lancasterian and Infant Sunday schools , and were each given a booklet commemorating the end of apprenticeship . |
| 7 | Richards and King put on 139 for the fifth wicket in just seventy-seven minutes , King annihilating the bowlers to the tune of three sixes and ten fours in his 86 , most of them from the three part-time bowlers who conceded , by coincidence , 86 between them . |
| 8 | Nor did he for any of the other hopeful interviewees , most of them from the national papers . |
| 9 | It will now be a limited handicap which should mean avoiding the farce of last year when only three went to the post , two of them from the same stable . |
| 10 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |
| 11 | The first generation might practise some " levelling " — an adaptation and " evening-out " of any highly marked regionalisms in their speech — but would basically stick to the linguistic habits they brought with them from the Caribbean . |
| 12 | The shapes of the things we make are , as a general rule , imposed upon them from the outside : we do not make ‘ embryo ’ machines which acquire complex shapes by intrinsic processes . |
| 13 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 14 | The ‘ conversion ’ of the UK government has been briefly described earlier ; it is manifested in their July 1989 commitment to spend £10m. on climate change research in 1989/90 and the confident request to them from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) for an extra £11m. in 1990 and £13m. in the two succeeding years for additional environmental research . |
| 15 | Most degree courses have very flexible structures and allow students to include subjects of special interest to them from the large selection available in the University . |
| 16 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that some British companies have not received the compensation due to them from the Turkish authorities controlling northern Cyprus ? |
| 17 | Further funding will cover , in part at least , the shortfall between the amount allocated to them from the common fund and their total expenditure . |
| 18 | Indeed there are strong resemblances between them , especially when one looks back on them from the present day and across all that has happened in theology since Ritschl . |
| 19 | It is possible that local managers were looking over their shoulders in planning ahead ; there was little pressure on them from the informed public to achieve rundown and disperse asylum services . |
| 20 | A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch . |
| 21 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |