Example sentences of "[noun pl] from [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 2 | In that year em waves from Venus at radio wavelengths greater than about 10 mm were detected by means of radio telescopes . |
| 3 | Over the last decade or so , new types of financial instrument have been developed to help businesses manage the risks from fluctuations in interest and exchange rates . |
| 4 | As new evidence came to light the risks from exposure to radiation appeared worse and worse . |
| 5 | They must , of course , take calculated risks from time to time to achieve objectives which they perceive to be right but not universally popular . |
| 6 | The Lord has won a victory over my feelings in this area although there are still skirmishes from time to time ! |
| 7 | The Commission issues guidelines from time to time on its views on appreciability . |
| 8 | And when their great Emperor Gia Long finally rose from the Mekong delta a century ago to unify all the peoples from Saigon to Hanoi , had n't he triumphantly renamed his new empire " Viet Nam " ? |
| 9 | The belief , common to warrior peoples from Viking to Samurai , that the souls of those slain in battle went straight to heaven . |
| 10 | Natural resources and environment : water , soil , possibly vegetation , climate ( reflected in the growing season with hot-cold , wet-dry combinations from year to year ) . |
| 11 | But such enthusiasm for working on as many projects as possible has lead to serious cautions from doctors for Merton . |
| 12 | The markings should be located as follows : a spot over each eye ; on cheeks ; as a strip around each side of muzzle , but not on the bridge of the nose ; on throat ; triangular mark on either side of prosternum ; on forelegs from carpus downwards to toes ; on front of rear legs from hock to toes , but not completely eliminating black from back of rear pasterns ; under tail ; black pencilling on toes . |
| 13 | Use hand-over-hand stroking movements on legs from ankle to thigh . |
| 14 | She stretched her legs from thigh to toes — and let go . |
| 15 | The tummy toner , for example , raises and lowers the bottom half of the body , and the waist trimmer swings the legs from side to side . |
| 16 | Obviously she 'd have to go out to the shops from time to time , but she 'd had her hair dyed black on the Saturday , bought a new winter coat and a large pair of dark glasses . |
| 17 | The software also runs in a variety of environments from mainframes to client-servers to personal computers , and , he added , can , therefore , be used on a company-wide basis . |
| 18 | Many women met their husbands from work at dinner time and did their weekly shopping , taking advantage of the cheaper prices at the market and some to ensure they got their housekeeping money before their spouses spent their wages on drink . |
| 19 | At first sight , a number of proteins ( PI3' , phospholipase C , p120-GAP , for example ) implicated in transducing signals from receptors to Ras are left out of the picture . |
| 20 | During this time signals from tissue from tissue with a short T2 , for example , the gut wall , can experience appreciable decay and thus appear dark . |
| 21 | In September the government announced new austerity measures including a reduction in public spending to counter the adverse effects of the Gulf crisis [ see p. 37697 ] which , taking into account the loss of remittances from Bangladeshis in Iraq , loss of exports and a squeeze on jobs in other Gulf states , was expected to cause a loss of US$250,000,000 . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , large numbers of Namibians are extremely poor and many more are still dependent on remittances from workers in South Africa for a living . |
| 23 | India 's foreign-exchange reserves have been severely eroded by high oil prices and the loss of remittances from workers in Kuwait and Iraq . |
| 24 | The loss in remittances from workers in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States by the end of 1991 was expected to be in excess of US$150 million . |
| 25 | But as soon as a company takes the first tentative steps from data to information , its decision processes , management structure , and even the way its work gets done begin to be transformed . |
| 26 | New annual premiums up from $25.3m to $30.3m and single premiums from $62.5m to $159.5m . |
| 27 | Increased market share as new annual premiums rose from $39m to $45.8m and single premiums from $126m to $241.6m . |
| 28 | New annual premiums were up from $51.6m to $57.2m and single premiums from $189.3m to $334.4m . |
| 29 | Painting as an art form became news once more , and young artists were said to be rediscovering a Romantic tradition in English painting that encompassed landscape artists from Turner to Paul Nash , and visionaries from Blake to Stanley Spencer . |
| 30 | Homeworkers , who engaged in a wide variety of trades from matchbox-making to furpulling , did indeed suffer disproportionately from disease , particularly tuberculosis , and regulation was instigated not merely for the protection of the workers but also for the sake of the whole community . |