Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thumb was out as I resolutely walked along the road shielding my eyes from oncoming lights and wistfully following the tails lights of cars that sailed by . |
| 2 | My pensions from former employers , together with income from investments , brings me into the age allowance scale , while my wife receives a reduced state pension based on my contributions together with building society interest , which alone would not cover the allowances . |
| 3 | First of all I do have some sympathy with my colleagues from other districts who , while not being in sympathy with the policy , would n't want to be excluded if there 's er certain development opportunities being thrown in . |
| 4 | These churches had gained many of their possessions from wealthy laymen as a result of the noble piety which characterised the monastic reform movement of the tenth century , when substantial numbers of new monasteries were created and old ones re-established . |
| 5 | The longstanding quota of 14 per cent on foreign imports was still in place , but Channel 4 was buying a quarter of its programmes from independent companies , and the BBC was moving in the same direction . |
| 6 | In South America the same thing had happened ; even the continuing presence of a large native population and wars of liberation had not much differentiated their institutions from European models . |
| 7 | Stray bullets flying across their heads from both trenches ensured that they kept themselves low to the ground . |
| 8 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 9 | In deciding whether material depraves and corrupts , the jury must lift its eyes from mere details and consider the tone and overall presentation . |
| 10 | During this festive season , the population of the island is swollen with Madeirans returning home for their festivities from all parts of the globe , as well as a vast influx of tourists . |
| 11 | The trick was to adjust the temperature in their cages from 27 degrees celsius to 20 degrees over three weeks . |
| 12 | The National Health Service claims its funds from three sources . |
| 13 | So why did it recruit its presenters from Tory Wankers Against Taste ? |
| 14 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 15 | Catholics and protestants became more and more segregated by school , as the Roman catholic bishops sought to bind in their flocks from outside influences , on the one hand to protect them from proselytism , and on the other to use the schools as a vehicle for the maintenance and development of faith . |
| 16 | I saw the hospital where Pat works which is beautifully made , and met some of her workmates from different countries . |
| 17 | The Lords of the West Marches and their Commissioners from both sides of the border , wherever that was thought to be at the time , met there to resolve complaints and grievances . |
| 18 | However , this leaves open the possibility that the Earth , Venus and Mars acquired most of their volatiles from volatile-rich bodies by post-accretional veneering . |
| 19 | Water from the Arghuri brook , thought Miss Logan ; or perhaps that sourish milk which they had already received many times on their travels from obliging shepherds . |
| 20 | By imperial unification they meant at this time a federal union of Britain and the white dominions , a scheme differing little in its essentials from other schemes of imperial union which had occupied the minds of the British political classes from time to time during the latter part of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | Her bust reduced from 42&½ inches to 40½ inches , her waist from 36½ inches to 34½ inches and her hips from 42½ inches to 40 inches . |
| 22 | Her bust has reduced from 39½ inches to 35 inches ( a loss of 4½ inches ) , her waist from 35 inches to 28 inches ( 7 inches ) her hips from 43 inches to 37½ inches ( 5½ inches ) and her widest part ( around the lower hips and thighs ) had reduced by 7 inches from 45 inches to 38 inches . |
| 23 | Short of reliable military forces the government obtained its troops from many sources : some regular dragoon regiments were sent as garrisons , particularly during the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | ( The Soviet Union subsequently reached agreements with Czechoslovakia and Hungary to withdraw all its troops from those countries — see p. 37258 . ) |
| 25 | I think what went wrong was that they took a lot of their ideas from western countries and they sort of felt because this was in all the other countries , we should bring it to Ireland as well . |
| 26 | Many of those who call themselves farmers because they still own land derive the major part of their incomes from non-agricultural occupations . |
| 27 | Whereas conventional radar systems emit a beam and analyse its reflections from other ships in the area to avoid collision , Watchman simply pinpoints the radar beams that other ships transmit . |
| 28 | The University 's International Office is glad to provide the relevant information to any students and their families from such backgrounds who wish to establish such local contacts . |
| 29 | The University 's International Office is glad to provide the relevant information to any students and their families from such backgrounds who wish to establish such local contacts . |
| 30 | Amongst its other activities it hosts Members Days at Henley each summer , when the College is pleased to welcome members and their families from all countries to Greenlands . |