Example sentences of "[conj] from [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 When the challenge to the court came , it was not from the heirs of the rebels or from the discontented northerners , but from the queen .
2 ‘ I oppose the amendments and I will vote against them irrespective of whether they come from the Government or from the honourable members whose names appear on the amendment paper , although a glance at these names makes my blood run cold ...
3 Then you had to show the clothes when the buyers came in — people from America or from the grand shops .
4 It was difficult to determine whether the explosions were from the German shells or from the Allied shells passing over , with the usual one or two dropping short .
5 Alkaline waters may come from hard-water sources or from the softening processes .
6 The particular accommodation offered will inevitably depend on what is available to the local authority from its own resources , or from the accessible resources of others .
7 Did they learn from the professors or from the other participants ?
8 Distantly she could feel the tremor of a heart still recognizably her own — though whether it shook with terror or from the first stirrings of a ferocious excitement was hard to distinguish now .
9 The range of coins available was sufficient for even the smallest transactions , and we can glimpse from reading a Latin novel such as The Golden Ass of Apuleius or from the many papyri which have survived from Egypt that these societies used coinage very much as we do .
10 From 1334 to 1343 the clergy voted for no fewer than eight tenths , or from the combined provinces — and at a conservative estimate — roughly £140,000 ; in the next decade almost as much , seven tenths or some £124,000 were conceded ; during the second half of the 1350s only two tenths were granted , £35,000 ; the peace of Brétigny brought a respite from royal taxation until 1370 , after which until the end of the reign £100,000 was raised by traditional subsidies , £50,000 was sought as a special grant in 1371 ( though little of this was effectively collected ) and a graduated poll tax was imposed in 1377 .
11 From Merligen ( or from the Beatus Caves ) an expeditious but interesting return to Thun can be made by car or by the bus service noted above .
12 For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages .
13 Mentally disordered offenders who have been admitted to ordinary hospitals from the courts , or from prison , or from the Special Hospitals such as Broadmoor may require such a period of care in conditions of medium security .
14 Apprehension about the Spaniards turned out to be unjustified ; they had serious problems with the Dutch , who were moving forward in the West Indies , and also with the trade winds , that blew from the east and made it very hard for ships from the Spanish Main or from the larger islands like Cuba to reach the smaller islands .
15 Whether of the early Imperial centuries or from the later periods of the fourth and fifth centuries , Aphrodisian portrait sculpture stands out among the best , especially in the intensity displayed by the late-Roman physiognomies .
16 2 the inner half severed medially of the internal non-load bearing walls that divide the Premises from the adjoining unit[s] in the Centre or from the Retained Parts
17 In addition , two other courses are taken which may be chosen from a wide range of other science subjects or from the Social Sciences or Arts .
18 The Gardens of England and Wales , detailing open days , is available from bookshops , or from The National Gardens Scheme , Hatchlands Park , East Clandon , Guildford , Surrey GU4 7RT ( 0483 211535 ) , price £2.75 inc p & p .
19 More than once Miller emphasised that roses , being natives of northern countries or from the cold mountains of warmer ones , relish their freedom .
20 However , the organism was not cultured from the spirometry handpiece or from the wooden arms of a chair gripped by each of the patients during spirometry .
21 How much this resulted from Cruickshank 's own approach to maintaining contact and diplomacy with individual people and concerns — he 's more generally credited with being a man for the ‘ big picture ’ — or from the excessive demands put on anyone trying to run and change such a vast and politically sensitive organisation , is open to debate .
22 However , there was also little positive support for William , except from the Presbyterian extremists , who wanted a radical constitutional and ecclesiastical settlement .
23 The light supplementing that from the small portholes came from a central paraffin lantern .
24 This shows that from the earliest days of government interest in organizing the labour-market , Beveridge at least saw juvenile labour as a separate category which would require the formulation of a joint approach by the exchanges and local education authorities .
25 There it seems that from the earliest days of the pioneer settlers the black cat was linked with the devil so strongly that it was , in any context , an evil force .
26 It is perhaps not surprising , therefore that from the early days when the state became involved in the education of the masses one of the principal aims of the curriculum enunciated by successive Presidents of the Board of Education , Ministers of Education and Secretaries of State for Education has been that of the preparation for citizenship .
27 Will my hon. Friend confirm that one of the representations that he must have received was that from the Liberal Democrats advocating their policy of imposing an extra 50p a gallon on petrol ?
28 It will look at the entirety of the obligations undertaken by the firm and determine the nature of the relationship from the whole contract construed in the light of its commercial context rather than from a few words in the contract .
29 Schools and colleges continue to provide the vast majority of candidates ; there were nearly twice as many candidates from local authorities ' community education centres than from the private centres .
30 In the normal intestine , water absorption was similar from WHO-ORS ( 87.4 ( 45.1–124.6 ) µl/min/g ; median and interquartile range ) and UK-ORS ( 57.6 ( 41.5–87 ) ) but less than from the hypotonic solutions ( p<0.02 ) ; water absorption from RS-ORS ( 181.8 ( 168.5–193.8 ) ) and RP-ORS ( 195.7 ( 179.3–207.9 ) ) was similar but less than from HYPO-ORS ( 241.3 ( 230.6–279.7 ) ; p<0.005 ) .
  Next page