Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Maine summed up the crucial developments of human history in his famous formula of the ‘ movement of the progressive societies from Status to Contract ’ . |
| 4 | These included recognition and respect for the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality by all states , in particular the Great Powers ; abstention by the ASEAN states from participation in conflicts between the Great Powers ; guarantees for the zone from the Great Powers — the United States , the USSR and China ; securing the legal rights of Great Powers in the region ; and observance of the obligation of the peaceful settlement of all disputed questions between the states participating in the zone . |
| 5 | Their value , as well as that of peat cut to provide the family 's fuel , must add considerably to the economic returns from crofting . |
| 6 | So the economic gains from land reform in the south might not be that great . |
| 7 | Although what is and is not acceptable in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist changes from minute to minute . |
| 8 | Rawlings , who had retired from the air force on Sept. 14 in order to comply with electoral rules excluding serving members of the armed forces from candidacy , stood for the National Democratic Congress ( NDC ) [ see p. 39084 ] . |
| 9 | The room was crammed with the bric-à-brac of kingship , the usual gifts from brother heads of state around the world : dolls in glass cases , a vivarium , two portraits of George Bush , seals of visiting warships , a porcelain plate from the Republic of China ( which keeps a one-man embassy in Nuku'alofa ) , a map of the moon presented by Mr Reagan , statuettes , umbrellas , a humidor and any number of sets of engraved Waterford glass . |
| 10 | Further , the cited examples from education and planning stretch Dunleavy 's ‘ broad limits ’ to breaking point . |
| 11 | It may be that the cited deviations from price flexibility are empirically unimportant ; that is , they do not significantly affect the ‘ average ’ behaviour of prices . |
| 12 | The seamen are therefore determined that they will have nothing to do with Germans of any description until the Germans have made full reparation for the cruel murders committed and the lives lost on the high seas from submarine action " . |
| 13 | From Semer Water I crossed the road and followed the track above the river Bain through summer meadows , by stiles , some of which were gated and had the rubber soles from wellington boots for hinges . |
| 14 | Rust read through the text , translating the salient points from French into English . |
| 15 | He is a modes man who appears genuinely bemused by the British reaction to him : ‘ I have always been impressed by British democracy and the irony is that — although I have differences with the British leaders from time to time — I sometimes feel my kind of federalism is better understood in Britain than by some of the federalists elsewhere in Europe who always cry , onwards , onwards ! ’ |
| 16 | Devaluation was announced on 18 November , and this was followed in January 1968 by the decision to recall most of the British forces from East of Suez by the end of 1971 . |
| 17 | The meagre returns from tillage stimulated the conversion of arable land to pasture for sheep , which was proceeding actively in the early decades of the century . |
| 18 | ‘ A few years ago one of the old boys from Ham was doing a bit of rabbit poaching up here and a headless horseman went riding by as cool as you please . |
| 19 | Enough death and suffering already laid blood-guilt on her over the old guilts from home . |
| 20 | Approximately one hundred paintings from the museum 's permanent collection include works by all of the principal practitioners from Boudin to Pissarro , Homer to Hassam , and Sickert to Sorolla , with many lesser known followers from Norway , Belgium , Holland , Italy , Germany , Poland and elsewhere . |
| 21 | Richard Vendome invited musicians from the Royal College of Music and the male voices from Tiffin School in London . |
| 22 | While the female crouches , quivering her wings and fluffing up her feathers , the male hops from side to side behind her , pecking at her cloaca ( the joint exit of digestive and reproductive systems ) . |
| 23 | Polarised Zeeman correction methods have been used to improve the quantitative measurements from flame instruments giving greater stability and reducing spectral noise . |
| 24 | Finally , there are the vast profits from heroin and cocaine industries and from illegal arms sales which are laundered , in part , through the Italian economy . |
| 25 | ‘ And the scriptural quotations from Genesis and the Book of the Apocalypse , you have no clue to their meaning ? ’ |
| 26 | Policeman Bob Walker took the individual honours from peg one returning 9lb 15oz . |
| 27 | Advantages to the individual sub-contractors from continuity of work and reduced administration offset the marginal discount in the rates , to cover the overheads of the agency . |
| 28 | It was not under sail , as I would have preferred , but the next best thing , and in this boat we explored most of the Outer Isles from North Rona to Barra Head , and the mainland coast between Lochinver and Oban . |
| 29 | Apart from the sacrosanct hours from midday until two , the main street is quietly busy , with queues at the two boulangeries for each fresh batch of baguettes , petanque players under the plane trees , and , on Sundays , a tiny but comprehensive market . |
| 30 | ‘ Companies need to focus less on dividing their refining and chemical interests and more on capitalising on the tremendous synergies from integration ’ . |