Example sentences of "of [n mass] from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and Hayling emerged with £11,000 from Manchester City Council , £7,000 from the TGWU , £6,000 from SOGAT and a total of £10,650 from six others — National Union of Public Employees ( NUPE ) , £3,500 ; National Communications Union ( NCU ) , £2,000 ; National Union of Journalists ( NUJ ) , £2,000 ; National Association of Local Government Officers ( NALGO ) , £2,000 ; Association of Cinematograph , Television and Allied Technicians ( ACTT ) , £650 ; and the tiny TGWU-dominated Bakers ' Union , £500 . |
| 2 | None the less , the South Western Board was clearly in financial difficulties , and in 1954 the Central Authority did make a subvention of £250000 from central reserves , with the possibility of further help five years later , hoping that the Board would now make reasonable charges to its consumers to cover expenditure . |
| 3 | Taking into account the influence of a number of factors that affect levels of child mortality , including maternal age , one study demonstrated with results of data from developing countries that participated in the WFS , that elimination of fourth and higher order births ( i.e. , termination of childbearing at third parity ) would reduce infant and early childhood mortality by approximately eight per cent ( Trussell and Pebley , 1984 , p.29 ) . |
| 4 | SGE has launched Delta software which allows simultaneous acquisition and processing of data from two chromatographs , each with two detectors , and still allows editing and reprocessing of data . |
| 5 | Marine geophysics The final phase of the continental shelf programme funded by the Department of Energy included the integration of data from other organisations ' marine gravity surveys with the BGS dataset . |
| 6 | The functions they provide may include a selection of the following : electronic mail , fax , telex , word processing , records storage and retrieval ( both individual and shared ) , diary scheduling ( people and facilities ) , internal reference information , spreadsheets , access to other applications , and the importing and repackaging of data from other applications . |
| 7 | The relative risks estimated on the basis of data collected at interview and on the basis of data from obstetric notes are generally similar . |
| 8 | An analysis was made of data from 60 speakers , 32 males and 28 females . |
| 9 | There is increasing interest among social scientists in the linking of data from different sources , including the national census of population based on a system of enumeration districts ( EDs ) . |
| 10 | Exploration and production companies have to manage huge amounts of data from diverse databases and business disciplines . |
| 11 | After a two-year legal battle , Richard Branson and Virgin Atlantic won libel damages of £610,000 from British Airways over its ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign . |
| 12 | With winnings of £75,134 from 11 tournaments this year , De Lorenzi is almost assured of retaining her Order of Merit title . |
| 13 | Winston was picking a team of folk from all walks of life to see them as soon as they could . |
| 14 | A mixed party of kin from both sides , including the bride and the gatekeeper cross-cousin but not the bride 's parents , returned in procession to the house of the groom 's parents . |
| 15 | This means that her reproductive tract will contain a mixture of sperm from several sources and it becomes almost a matter of chance as to which particular male 's sperm fertilizes each of her shed eggs . |
| 16 | While the Canadian business has been profitable , WH Smith believes the returns being obtained on £75m of sales from 200 outlets are not comparable with the returns that can be obtained in other markets and did not justify the future investment necessary to develop the chain . |
| 17 | For the occasion the gallery has been stocked with loans of Johns 's work in a full range of media from various museums as well as from two important private collections : those of Mr Castelli and Mr Johns . |
| 18 | In general , and in addition to the contribution of the outside agencies mentioned earlier , the keys to the successful implementation of the project so far have been simplicity , communication and the involvement of staff from other sections within the Personnel Department at all stages of the development . |
| 19 | During the field trial , this exploration was carried out in a conventional manner , eg by gathering background information relevant to the client organisation , by becoming familiar with the physical layout of the offices involved , and by interviewing a representative sample of staff from both departments and from the central support unit . |
| 20 | Opportunities for joint supervision with members of staff from these bodies are available when suitable candidates with appropriate research topics present themselves . |
| 21 | Twelve teams made up of staff from 20 departments entered the competition to compete in five sports — squash , snooker , darts , pool and table-tennis . |
| 22 | The Government responded to the concerns of MPs from both sides of the House by proposing its own electricity efficiency clause . |
| 23 | Maeve Binchy 's gift for drawing readers into the lives of people from small communities , and for describing the evolution of friendships , have won her millions of readers . |
| 24 | These twin processes led to the gradual displacement of people from rural areas . |
| 25 | As with place-names , a wide background of reading and an enduring love of language is needed for the study of surnames , possibly even more so , for in twentieth-century England the population is made up of people from many lands , many languages , social attitudes , cultures and customs , all of which — since the first coining of surnames — have enlarged the vocabulary of words from which patronymics and other additional gnomen ( early name ) forms are drawn . |
| 26 | In London the needs of people from ethnic groups are being looked into by other organisations like the Standing Conference of Ethnic Minority Senior Citizens ( address on page 155 ) . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the high proportion of inner urban populations composed of people from ethnic minorities , and the high incidence among these groups of all the indices of poverty and social and environmental hardship — combined with the specific problem of inter-racial rivalry , harassment , and tension — make race and ethnicity an aspect that is central to any analysis of the inner cities and of any ameliorative approach . |
| 28 | Stamina , poise , wisdom , dedication , a love of people from all walks of life — ’ |
| 29 | ITED has been developed through a number of task groups , utilising the skill and experience of people from all sectors of the Group , and was piloted across a sample of UK businesses in 1991 . |
| 30 | environmental constraints if the organization is big enough to qualify as strategic , and I am really concerned about the planning er application in which I know that Da Professor Lock is interested that I think developments of that scale have nothing to do with the employment needs of the district , that they would in fact involve bringing in large numbers of people from other areas who as I have said before , might appreciate jobs nearer their present places of employment , and it would also unbalance the Harrogate housing market and put on pressure for more land to be taken in and around Harrogate for housing for the people who 'd come to that development . |