Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total income from tourism would then equal our present income from North Sea Oil — heralded in the past as a saviour and bonanza . |
| 2 | With the fees for shooting hill stags currently averaging £200 to £250 , the total income from commercial lets is £1.5–£2 million . |
| 3 | However the total income from rent was a gross £36 6 0d : from that had to be deducted a quit rent of 13s 4d to St. Bartholomew 's Hospital , leaving 18 12 8d ( after the other deductions ) to be appropriated by the Company . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A 3p final dividend sees the total jump from 7.8p to 12p , payable from earnings per share up from 24.1p to 36.9p . |
| 6 | The £1bn allocated to cost overruns in the Offer for Sale was substantially reduced by two upward revisions of the budget which raised the total cost from £4.87bn in November 1987 to a little under £5bn in March 1989 . |
| 7 | A final dividend of 2.8p ( 2.6p ) lifts the total payment from 7.7p to 8.4p . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Historically governments gave firms very generous allowances and permitted them to offset the costs of new capital equipment against profits , so that in practice the total revenue from corporation tax has been relatively low as a share of all revenue . |
| 10 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the total revenue from duty on tobacco goods in 1990 . |
| 11 | The budget for grants has been increased by £10 million and for loans by £30 million , increasing the total amount from £228 million to £268 million . |
| 12 | A 1.8p final dividend on June 26 sees the total cut from 5p to 3.6p . |
| 13 | The normal change from larva to adult is triggered by the larva ceasing production of juvenile hormone . |
| 14 | ‘ Dead-end ’ partnerships evidently bring little reward to women who miss out on the normal progression from junior to senior status and the accompanying benefits . |
| 15 | The gilt-edged selection from Tennyson into which he dipped , before reading him more extensively ( around his fifteenth year ) , belonged to his mother . |
| 16 | The board is lifting the interim dividend from 12p last time to 12.5p after what it calls ‘ a larger increase in pre-tax revenue than seemed likely six months ago ’ . |
| 17 | The Secretary of State may try to dodge the issue but tonight he is asking us to allow him and British Coal to pay for the top-of-the-range redundancy levels which the interim report from Rothschild urges as a necessary prerequisite for privatisation — |
| 18 | Fergie 's on hand as Eugenie gets the high-flying treatment from Johnny |
| 19 | AT THE first bend in the narrow lane from Guestwick to Corpusty there are the vestiges of an old carriageway turning off into a field in a south-westerly direction . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So far , this has been handled by visits to Unipart 's headquarters in Oxford to understand the wholesaling operation from start to finish and to see the ‘ parts superstores ’ that are typical of the UK retail market . |
| 23 | Maine summed up the crucial developments of human history in his famous formula of the ‘ movement of the progressive societies from Status to Contract ’ . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | One problem is that appeals to the European Court from decisions of DGIV tend to take a very long time , and there is also some doubt as to whether the Court is an appropriately constituted body to act as a review tribunal in the sense described above . |
| 26 | The events will mark Britain 's Presidency of the European Community from July to December . |
| 27 | ‘ So , where 's this body ? ’ one of the uniformed guys from Strathclyde asks . |
| 28 | Brückner had bought the painted ceiling from Italy and had it fitted . |
| 29 | I wonder if the friendly gent from Gloucester I met on the bank at Bo'ness some days back has noted that steam is heading his way on Saturday ? |
| 30 | 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 . |