Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burns 's poetry and songs have played an important part in my life from the earliest years , not only because of their simple beauty , but also because of their directness , honesty , and wry , lop-sided , humour ; the appreciation of which stood me in good stead the last time I was in Mauchline . |
| 2 | As we began to pick up the threads of life in the south once more I found that in my absence from the cutter scene a brand new purpose-built cutter Venturous was operating with great success . |
| 3 | I went back upstairs , drank water in my hands from the bath tap and slept without dreaming . |
| 4 | ‘ I wore my patent of freedom , ’ he told Mrs Thrale , ‘ in my hat from the New town to the Old , about a mile . ’ |
| 5 | I had the sun in my eyes from the windows one side and when I dipped a wing , the stars shining in the other . |
| 6 | I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ . |
| 7 | Although it may be distressing to the mother to find that she has now to take the child back , nevertheless there is no escape in my judgment from the conclusion that the child 's return should be ordered in this case . |
| 8 | Different types of reform unit emerged , but the most common , known as Peasant Committees , were not very different in their organisation from the previous land settlements . |
| 9 | Universally panned by the critics , the film fans who were already vanishing in their droves from the theatres by the mid-Sixties , were given further encouragement to stay away and heads rolled at Warners . |
| 10 | Given the image of BA coupled to the lower fares I can see passengers defecting in their droves from the City 's resident airlines . |
| 11 | In some respects today 's songs have something of the character of the Psalms , in their expression from the heart without the cerebral and linguistic demands of hymnody . |
| 12 | Albanian historians believe that the modern Albanians developed from the ancient Illyrians and that there is a continuity of Illyrian settlement in their country from the Bronze Age to the present time . |
| 13 | The combination of utilitarian function , personal advertisement through statues and inscriptions , and florid architectural ornament is typical of imperial buildings in the Mediterranean provinces in their heyday from the late first century to the early third century AD . |
| 14 | Town Halls will take the extra £1 billion out of the £9 billion in their coffers from the sale of council houses . |
| 15 | In the novel , Balzac , Stendhal , and especially Zola illustrate a developing modernization in content , in their shift from the classical and idealized to the social and the every-day and finally , in Zola 's case , to approximating the fully contingent . |
| 16 | Recognising sharp practice in their dealers from the outset , they would be less likely to blame them for huge losses . |
| 17 | He used a stretched string to plot ray paths that just grazed the book in their transit from the source of the screen . |
| 18 | And at one point , showing how the books were formed into the New Testament by the early Church , the report expressed the belief that God gave the early Church its three gifts of ordering of the New Testament , creeds like the apostles ' creed , and the ministry of bishops in their succession from the apostles . |
| 19 | If parents had it firmly in their minds from the day the child was born , or even before , that their child was , or will be , basically uncivilised , then right from the beginning they would be aware of what they had to do . |
| 20 | One activity that has already been set up is the international Intor workshop , in which groups from the US , Europe , japan and the USSR have met to establish a common set of objectives and an optimum design for demonstrating the technology needed for a fusion reactor based on the tokamak system . |
| 21 | The UN is on the brink of enforcing a no-fly zone over Bosnia , in which jets from the United States , Italy and France would shoot down Serb planes . |
| 22 | Princeton University Press is offering Fields of Vision : Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States by Stephen Daniels ( £32.25 , $45 ) , in which the author explores the ways in which artists from the later eighteenth century to the present day have used landscape as a way of embodying their national feelings , and how painters like Turner and Constable contributed to a ‘ myth ’ of national identity . |
| 23 | Therapy ? 's latest game is ‘ Whose Round Is It Anyway ? ’ in which contestants from the band and crew have to go to the bar and order a drink in the manner of a named personality . |
| 24 | Given that the implications are so profound , however , there is an urgent need to consider ways in which data from the 1991 census and vital registration can be linked in more illuminating ways so as to examine the phenomenon of the unoccupied in more depth . |
| 25 | They will continue to have an effect on sexual function and , in addition , a homeostatic situation will establish itself in which hormones from the gonads will pass to the pituitary and largely control its action in stimulating production of hormones from the gonads themselves . |
| 26 | There are special rooms illustrating the activities of the New English Art Club , with paintings by Stanhope Forbes and other Newlyn artists , Sickert , Philip Wilson Steer and William Orpen ; of Cubism , in which loans from the Berggruen Collection and another private collections are added to works already owned by the museum ; and of recent or new works by the masters of The School of London , including Bacon , Freud , Auerbach , Kossoff , Hodgkin and Kitaj . |
| 27 | The Labour Party is largely a trade union party in which unions from the public sector play an increasing role . |
| 28 | In 1987 , the Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act abolished the existing salary scales ( see the introduction to Figures 7.5–7.8 below ) , and also the Burnham Committees , in which representatives from the teachers ' unions , the LEAs and the DES had negotiated salary structure , levels of pay and conditions of service . |
| 29 | Rory led the way to the disco floor , all too aware of the speculative glances slid in her direction from the other dancers , yet aware too of a peculiar little thrill of pride as she caught the envious looks in the eyes of the other women . |
| 30 | Their financial status seems to have varied at different times in her life from the reasonably comfortable to the distinctly shabby genteel . |