Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Maine summed up the crucial developments of human history in his famous formula of the ‘ movement of the progressive societies from Status to Contract ’ . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ So , where 's this body ? ’ one of the uniformed guys from Strathclyde asks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a bit noisy , ’ said someone from Lotus as the booming voices from Microsoft and Borland reverberated around the hall . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 1927 she swam the 120 miles from London to Folkestone in stages ; and on 7 October 1927 , at her eighth attempt , she became the first Englishwoman to swim the Channel ( from France to England in 15 hrs. 15 min . ) . |
| 15 | Constructed " on a large scale " , she was en route from her birthplace in Scotland to London , and had steamed the 120 miles from Milford Haven against a head wind at an incredible 10 knots . |
| 16 | For instance , among the 22 Arg residues 19 are coded by AGA , 1 by AGG , CGT and CGC , the codons CGA and CGG being not used at all ; furthermore , triplets ending in A or T are preferred to those ending in C or G. This picture was confirmed when the analysis was extended to the eleven genes from S.solfataricus which have been sequenced so far , whereas the comparison with the codon usage by the corresponding genes in Escherichia coli and rat liver showed a completely different pattern ( 7 ) . |
| 17 | These included recognition and respect for the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality by all states , in particular the Great Powers ; abstention by the ASEAN states from participation in conflicts between the Great Powers ; guarantees for the zone from the Great Powers — the United States , the USSR and China ; securing the legal rights of Great Powers in the region ; and observance of the obligation of the peaceful settlement of all disputed questions between the states participating in the zone . |
| 18 | The Corpach lock keeper suggested a German yacht waiting to ascend Neptune 's Staircase , the eight locks from sea to the first stretch of canal . |
| 19 | Linda Williamson worked with the RSSPCC social worker , Liz McLean in most of the interviews with the eight children from Orkney 's large problem family , who had been taken into care in November 1990 . |
| 20 | Two teams are running the 550 miles from Edinburgh to London down the east and west of the country . |
| 21 | Mr. Cowan then laid on the table the fifty volumes from Cassells Library which he presented to the Society . |
| 22 | The following July , 1880 , he got the fifty francs from Theo and made reluctant contact again . |
| 23 | It was no ordinary train , but one made up of fifty-seven carriages and hauled by no less than six locomotives that ran the fifty miles from London to the ‘ Daphne ’ of the Metropolis , as Brighton has sometimes been called ( to quote from The London Illustrated News of 7 December 1884 ) ; the journey took four and a half hours . |
| 24 | The greatest sculptures from Sicily in this period have none of this backward-looking character : the metopes from the temple of Hera at Selinus . |
| 25 | The limited application of traffic calming in Britain has been , as we have seen , principally in new housing areas , yet the greatest gains from traffic calming are likely to appear in existing residential areas where adverse traffic conditions lead to a lack of safety . |
| 26 | Moreover , if shipper A entrusted his goods to faithless agent B who shipped the goods , obtained an ‘ order ’ bill of lading and endorsed it to C who acquired it for value and in good faith , A could not replevy the entrusted goods from C. A bank then , could be assured that it would become an ‘ absolute purchaser of goods upon deposit with it of [ a ] draft and bill of lading … [ and would acquire ] absolute title to property , unless it took with notice of some infirmity . ’ |
| 27 | The field was swarming with sightseers from Glasgow , and the sweating guards from RAF Abbotsinch were having little luck preventing the looting of souvenir items from the scattered wreckage . |
| 28 | At a very gentle pace , it took me less than 7 minutes to cycle the 1.5 miles from Muirwood Rd. to Wester Hailes Shopping Centre — and 10 mins. to get back ( it 's uphill ) . |
| 29 | Their value , as well as that of peat cut to provide the family 's fuel , must add considerably to the economic returns from crofting . |
| 30 | So the economic gains from land reform in the south might not be that great . |