Example sentences of "[adj] of [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teams of paddlers ( some of them from the SBS ) and the navigators therefore spent two weeks making periscope reconnaissances , drawing the profiles of the hinterland to target beaches . |
| 2 | Aye , Master Joe , you 'd suppose not if you saw some of them from the towns . |
| 3 | In his earlier work Hare seemed to believe that there were alternative moral stances to the world , each of which might be equally rational , though we may quite properly condemn some of them from the perspective of the morality which we ourselves advocate . |
| 4 | Letters pour into the correspondence columns from all over — some of them from people who sound several years older than himself , and some of them from the most exclusive neighbourhoods , well beyond the pockets of any of his friends . |
| 5 | Ivy was growing up its trunk and the recent gales had wrenched some of it from the bark . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 8 | There were a few of the I-am-not-really-dead-but-just-popped-out-for-a-packet-of-fags sort of lines , which all went on a little long for Henry 's taste , and quite a number of death-as-a-viable-alternative-to-life stuff , much of it from the fathers of the early church . |
| 9 | The Columbus cast is half old-timers and half new blood , much of it from the so-called alternative comedy set . |
| 10 | THE RAFFLE for the Charlotte Starmer-Smith Medical Fun at the Royal Berkshire Hospital , Reading , raised £17,500 ( Fund total now £97,000 ) — much of it from the rugby community . |
| 11 | Given that about 7 million tonnes of surplus straw is produced each year , much of it from the cereal-growing area of East Anglia in my constituency , does my hon. Friend agree that it is an important source of energy ? |
| 12 | This produced a rich seam of tips , much of it from the artists at the Theatre Royal during rehearsals . |
| 13 | In a tough speech to the Crime Reporters ' Association he said the IRA would cease their evil trade if they could see the level of public support given to the police — much of it from the Irish community . |
| 14 | Under the agreement the Philippines obtained a $712,500,000 loan from 82 banks , 10 of them from the Philippines . |
| 15 | And then some at Jailside Parkses and in the , during the winter months we used to , we had a spot to meet about half a dozen of us from the various factories , because we were afraid to walk home through and that way er because men used to wait in Lane . |
| 16 | So , I 'd got this house and two or three of us from the refuge went up to the old house and packed everything ready to move . |
| 17 | David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways . |
| 18 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 19 | So that £780 million is being paid by all of us from the generality of taxation . |
| 20 | It was , or it has been , a believe that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 21 | It was , or it has been , a belief that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However there 's not too many of them from the dam as the section back to the car park is a tame ramble running through a clearing in the trees . |
| 24 | Gazing from the window of the taxi , she watched the small groups of tourists , many of them from the ship , strolling in and out of shops eagerly purchasing souvenirs . |
| 25 | Many of us from the so-called developed countries are engaged in advising developing countries on their rural and other development problems . |
| 26 | However , a commitment to Free Will somehow understood , or the force of some image of Free Will , is likely to keep many of us from the further conclusion that the circumstance was exactly a necessitating circumstance . |
| 27 | The government had recognised that the largest of these had a claim to continued autonomy and proposed to exclude ten of them from the jurisdiction of their surrounding counties . |
| 28 | And it would be helpful , I know it 's short notice , but if erm those of you from the erm tt er design function groups who will interface with the project engineers , I E bridge works , BES and and P Way , if you could also attend it i if if it would be possible . |
| 29 | It is a bloody , those of us from the south , now is as Watford , Hertfordshire , sorry about that , you know , we 're well happy , you stand no chance of oh dear , I 've got in the eye here , you know , we declared independence years ago . |
| 30 | Those of us from the South who left behind tree-strewn roads and gardens after the devastation of the recent October storm , were delighted to be in such beautiful surroundings again and to meet with our Lilleshall friends from other parts of the country . |