Example sentences of "[adj] from the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Different from the time the Radiological Protection Unit had been out , and different from the Boilermakers ' stoppage . |
2 | Dyer 's doings are the same as but also different from those investigated by the fretful man he resembles , just as Hawksmoor 's investigative Scotland Yard is the same as but also different from the architects ' department of that name attended by Dyer . |
3 | It seems clear from the overseers ' accounts for the late 18th century that two of the four adult Titford brothers were living as occupants of houses once held as leasehold properties by their better-off ancestors . |
4 | ( c ) The most efficient delivery arrangement will be direct from the builders ' merchant or manufacturer to an individual site , rather than to the builder 's store . |
5 | Jinkwa had used cremation ceremony speech number 401 from the officers ' manual to stimulate just that effect . |
6 | The Labour Party has an economic policy which is almost indistinguishable from the Tories ' . |
7 | I have sampled a range of cordless tools , chosen mostly at random from the manufacturers ' catalogues , broadly representing the market spectrum . |
8 | The crusading Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser assails this almost weekly for its alleged distribution of ‘ jobs for the boys ’ — and girls , many from the councillors ' own families . |
9 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
10 | Either condition is unsatisfactory from the banks ' point of view . |
11 | The findings are actually somewhat more encouraging from the Tories ' point of view than they appear on the surface . |
12 | Aristotle noted a distinction between income from the public land and that from the citizens ' private estates . |
13 | It was a small shed , rather like a Dutch oven in shape , set well up into the prow to remove it as far as possible from the passengers ' cabins . |
14 | Mutual cooperation was undesirable from the generals ' point of view , because it was n't helping them to win the war . |
15 | This Committee comprises three members of the Board , two lay and two solicitor members from regional duty solicitor committees , two nominees from the Law Society , and one each from the Justices ' Clerks Society , the Magistrates ' Association and the Association of Chief Police Officers . |
16 | One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance . |
17 | Years spent at university are financially unrewarding from the parents ' perspective . |
18 | It 's also very important from the adults ' point of view that erm it does n't matter if you are a so called single parent , which , I by the way , am , or whether you are within erm a couple but actually in in fact you 're , you 're a single parent because you 're getting no support . |
19 | Available from The Ramblers ' Association , 1–5 Wandsworth Road , London SW8 2XX . |
20 | Available from the Economists ' Bookshop using this order form : |
21 | It remains unanswered from the patients ' point of view . |
22 | A scheme , more successful from the settlers ' point of view , was that in part of Ecuadorian Amazonia , where a ‘ settlements first ; roads second ’ philosophy prevailed . |
23 | The Pahls in their study had quite a high rate of non-co-operation : twenty of the group of 113 managers whom they wanted to study did not complete the questionnaire ( although the response rate was higher from the wives ' postal questionnaire ) ; of the twenty-nine couples who were asked to give home interviews , six refused and six did not answer the letter . |
24 | With the blessing of the Norfolk Naturalists ' Trust and with special permits in our pockets ( obtainable from the Visitors ' Centre ) we had walked along their famous bank from road to sea . |
25 | Examples of teaching practice are rejected because they seem too remote from the trainees ' own situation : " Yes but … my students would never ( work in pairs/bring things to class/respond to a video screen . ) " |
26 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
27 | Such payments accorded the payers with rights of exemption from the interference of bishops and hence were thought worthwhile from the payers ' point of view . |
28 | However , it is difficult to say if this is desirable from the residents ' point of view , or whether they would prefer to live in a mixed group of people with differing levels of disability ; when asked , most patients express a preference for being with others who do not have behavioural problems . |
29 | Under the influence of excessive risk aversion managers are thus liable to cause the firm to grow to an inefficient size and to engage in other forms of behaviour which are sub-optimal from the shareholders ' point of view , such as making low dividend payouts and an inadequate use of the company 's borrowing capacity . |
30 | Is this true from the clients ' point of view ? |