Example sentences of "from the [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |
| 2 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 3 | Hydra sprawls from the boundary of Canis Minor through to the south of Corvus and Virgo . |
| 4 | He lashed out at it and sent it flying down the road , away from the trio of kids . |
| 5 | The products from the reactions with carbonyl complexes are often insoluble involatile black powders , but preparing them by using slow diffusion sometimes gives sufficient crystal growth for X-ray structure determination . |
| 6 | From rates derived from the occupiers of property . |
| 7 | What puts Monteverdi 's Orfeo ( produced at Mantua , 1607 ) in quite a different class from the operas of Peri and Caccini or the Dafne ( 1608 ) ( again on Rinuccini 's text ) of a younger Florentine , Marco da Gagliano ( C. 1575–1642 ) , is quite simply that it is the work of an immeasurably more gifted musician . |
| 8 | There 's also a baseline heavy enough to hang half a dozen DJs from , and a funk aesthetic that you can currently detect in everyone from the Sandals to Galliano , Brand New Heavies to D-Influence . |
| 9 | Mr Robert Maxwell suggests that some aspects of the successful ambulatory care initiative in New York could be adapted by the capital 's primary care providers while the secondary services might learn from the rationalisation of specialist services in Paris . |
| 10 | These days the top schools send their cricket and rugby teams to Africa , New Zealand and the West Indies ; the school choir may tour Japan , while geography and biology pupils go on fact-finding expeditions anywhere from the jungles of Borneo to the Himalayas . |
| 11 | The United Liberation Front of Assam is a Marxist outfit operating from the jungles of Myanmar ( Burma ) , and wants an independent country for the Assamese people . |
| 12 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 13 | And Richard took it upon himself to make his friend more sociable , bringing him up from the country for dinners and parties , to Oldfield 's obvious disinterest . |
| 14 | On Monday , more academics swam in Johnson 's travelling aquarium : Principal Campbell , Professor Ross and a Dr Gerard , who had ‘ come six miles from the country on purpose ’ . |
| 15 | On Jan. 16 Khaled was arrested by police , who found him walking in Brussels , but was released on instruction from the Foreign Ministry and expelled from the country on Jan. 23 . |
| 16 | Parliament listed a number of goods , known as the ‘ enumerated articles ’ , which the colonies were not allowed to send anywhere outside the empire , and which were to be carried out only in ships from England or from the country of origin . |
| 17 | This organisation happily ploughs a furrow totally at odds with the notion of free trade , by making it as difficult as Possible for non-German companies to sell their wares in Germany without DIN approval — even where EEC law says that the only approval necessary is from the country of origin . |
| 18 | Mr Stockdale had taken control of Eagle Trust in the wake of the resignation and subsequent departure from the country of John Ferriday , and had discovered that £13.7m of funds could not be accounted for . |
| 19 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 20 | Stratford traded first in Cheshire cheese and woollen hose , sent from the country by Robinson 's chapmen , but then switched to rough flax , linen yarn , wheat , and rye , bought from Eastland ( Baltic ) merchants in exchange for English broadcloth . |
| 21 | By way of illustration , let us take an example from the development of Newton 's theory that we have considered several times before , and consider the situation that confronted Leverrier and Adams when they addressed themselves to the troublesome orbit of the planet Uranus . |
| 22 | The exclusion of many heads from the development of PNP , and the attempt to use PNP coordinators to carry the Authority 's versions of good practice directly from Merrion House to the classroom , had unfortunate consequences for both the success of the programme and school-LEA relationships . |
| 23 | BT 's involvement in the provision of business information services derived originally from the development of delivery systems such as Prestel and e-mail ( Telecom Gold ) . |
| 24 | THE GREAT American transport adventure , with its twin rival thrusts from the railways and highways , was inseparable from the development of energy use and the country 's future . |
| 25 | Yes , there will be three points of access onto the road , one from Mr Lingard 's property , one from the development by Grant Construction , and another one from the bridle track . |
| 26 | Only when a significant amount of food preparation moved from the home to food factories and when people became considerably more interested in what they were eating in the 1960s was there pressure to have more informative labels . |
| 27 | Home Insurance policies normally cover property temporarily away from the home including countries outside the UK . |
| 28 | Jewellery and cricket memorabilia worth £10,000 have been stolen from the home of Jim Parks , the former England wicketkeeper , in Worthing , Sussex . |
| 29 | ‘ I am speaking from the home of Mrs Browning , ’ I said . |
| 30 | DETECTIVES are investigating the theft of £300,000 of gems belonging to a high-class madam from the home of actor David Niven 's son . |