Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stan Weatherall and ‘ Darkie ’ A. Harrison paddled their two-man canoe from Salen down the broad , rocky loch Sunart into the open sea on a clear day in February 1941 . |
| 2 | Reports in late January spoke of a stalemate in the autonomy talks and of the effectiveness of the government 's economic blockade of Kurdistan [ see pp. 38458 ; 38598 ] which was enforced by a heavily fortified military line across north-eastern Iraq , running from Qasr-e-Shirin on the Iranian border east of Kirkuk and south of Arbil to the Turkish border west of Zhako . |
| 3 | The Czechoslovak government faced a demand from Sudeten Germans for material compensation for their expulsion from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War . |
| 4 | Before the closing of the railway from Hull to the coastal town of Hornsea , Sutton was a station on the way . |
| 5 | The first of these described two arduous journeys from Constantinople via Salonika ( taking in Mount Athos , which he climbed ) across the Scardus and Bertiscus ranges , then further north into Montenegro and across the Mirdita country of central Albania ; while the second described a journey from Samsun across the Anatolian plateau , through Cappadocia , past Lake Van to Erzerum , and so back to Trebizond , the latter stretch roughly across the route taken by Xenophon and the Ten Thousand . |
| 6 | ‘ The bank made shipments from Timbuktu in the Middle Ages , when African gold was at its finest . ’ |
| 7 | There are many interesting walks around the town and on the Dales and it is also possible to take a mini-bus tour from Middleham of the popular areas of Wensleydale and Swaledale , with a local resident acting as guide . |
| 8 | When Shah Jehan moved the court from Agra to the new city of Shahjehanabad in 1648 , it was Jahanara Begum who built the Chandni Chowk , the principal avenue of the Old City . |
| 9 | However , there was high praise from Pringle for the Scottish bowlers . |
| 10 | In the summer the ferry also runs from Quiberon to the little fishing port of Sauzon , which is almost postcard-pretty from a distance but given satisfying reality in close-up by the sounds and smells of its trade and the stacks of water-roughened lobster traps and water-soaked nets and floats . |
| 11 | Wally Hammond took over from Hobbs as the Great Man of English cricket . |
| 12 | John Wildig — BR from Beeching to the Present Day |
| 13 | John Wildig — BR from Beeching to the Present Day |
| 14 | The exception is Old Sarum , Old Salisbury , reoccupied for a time by folk fleeing from Wilton in the Danish raids of the opening of the eleventh century — and it survived to be the site of a cathedral and a Norman castle . |
| 15 | Clearly established as the European success of the year after a triumphant progress from Cannes to the continental box office , CYRANO DE BERGERAC stars Gerard Depardieu in characteristic form as the 17th century soldier-poet , a stoic bearer of tragi-comic disfigurement , secretly in love with his cousin Roxanne ( Anne Brochet ) . |
| 16 | He went from Rugby to the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , whence he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 28 July 1915 . |
| 17 | Over 15,000 piglets have died in transit from Germany at the Spanish border , after officials delayed their passage through concern that they might be carrying a newly discerned pig illness . |
| 18 | The shop now caters for the mainstream market , but it was built upon bringing in exclusive trainers from Germany in the early Eighties , trainers that had nothing to do with America , but a lot to do with the nomad Scousers , and Wade Smith often supplemented his stock by buying from Liverpool ‘ entrepreneurs ’ with time on their hands to travel to Deutschland and acquire , by various methods , the much sought after , exclusive Adidas Trim-Trab . |
| 19 | Since 1945 , when it was annexed from Germany by the Soviet Union , it has been Kaliningrad . |
| 20 | America 's Patriot anti-missile batteries , hastily airlifted to Israel from Germany after the first two Scud attacks , failed to stop a third attack but worked well the following night . |
| 21 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 22 | Over a period of five days teams of people walked , ran , cycled , rode , paddled and sailed from Inverness to the Western Isles , taking with them a marble stone — a 1,200 year old saintly relic of St Ronan . |
| 23 | Like many of Nicolae Ceauşescu 's critics within the Romanian Communist Party , Borila had been an émigré from Romania during the 1930s . |
| 24 | Even the US Army in West Germany was fed on beef and pork from Romania in the early 1980s . |
| 25 | His Jewish mother had narrowly escaped from Romania in the 19305 when the local Iron Guard goon squad began slaughtering Jews with a barbarity which sickened even their Nazi German allies . |
| 26 | Linnaeus respected Miller 's work and corresponded with him after his return to Europe ; there are ten letters from Chelsea in the Linnaean collection covering the period from 1752 to 1768 . |
| 27 | Sometimes there were short races between the Bletchley and Newport workmen 's trains as both were booked away from Wolverton at the same time . |
| 28 | Ex. 21 as there is an unlimited number of models to be found among the works of the great masters of orchestration from Haydn to the present day . |
| 29 | The repertoire of the Vanbrugh Quartet stretches from Haydn to the present day , and that span is reflected in the programme they are playing for the Festival . |
| 30 | The slightly grudging tone is revealing : the AMMA , like most other teaching unions , campaigned against the funding of schools from Whitehall during the last Parliament . |