Example sentences of "from the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these may be part of a general attractiveness but they may be quite separate from the priorities of the job . |
| 2 | They would fill the waggons from the hoppers at the shaft stations on Deep Level , then after coupling them together , say , in sets of three , the horse would be hitched on and the train hauled out to the grizzleys at the dressing floors . |
| 3 | Slovenian-made goods such as iron utensils from the forges in the forested uplands which lay alongside the Laibach-Trieste artery ; timber ; quicksilver from the mines at Idrija ; farm produce , notably wool , cattle , fruits , grain and honey , were the principal exports . |
| 4 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 5 | In the seventies , after a rise in the birth-rate from the midfifties to the mid-sixties , creating a ‘ bulge ’ in the school and student population in the 1970s , there was a gradual decline in the birthrate in the seventies . |
| 6 | Spain , its two kingdoms brought together by the dual monarchy of the Catholic Kings , Ferdinand and Isabella , and beginning to benefit from the riches of the New World , was emerging out of its previous isolation and preoccupation with internal affairs to become one of the two dominant powers of Europe . |
| 7 | From the windows of the train , the world appeared to be emerging still from the waters of the Deluge . |
| 8 | One had heard the ominous rumblings from the singers regarding the complexity of both choral and works , and the language of one of them ( Hebrew ) , but in performance on Saturday evening they sounded tremendous . |
| 9 | She tries the locked doors of the taxi , now streaked with grit and salt from the winds of the sea . |
| 10 | After studying the listings he decided that all the criteria had been met and witnessed a demonstration of the package build and test , entirely from the sources of the modules within LIFESPAN . |
| 11 | Many of the sheriffships were also heritable offices , which again conferred powers of private patronage upon their holders where this had not been specifically reserved to the Crown , and a great magnate who had inherited a small empire of such judicial rights had considerable powers of influence in his region , both from the offices themselves and the opportunities which they gave to oblige friends , and from the powers of the courts , for regalian jurisdiction was extended over the possessions of landowners who held their estates as the vassals of the magnate . |
| 12 | Some Conservative members may have a desire to do so , but there is no real strength of commitment to the promotion of competition and , for example , to the toughening up of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and the greater detachment of that body from the powers of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , who seems more interested in the argument about French nationalised industries than in the promotion of competition in our domestic economy . |
| 13 | Li Yuan studied them a moment , trying to get the key to their relationship — something more than could be gained from the summaries in the file — then returned to the desk and sat , leaving them standing . |
| 14 | A large extended family tribe , all brand new Barbour-outfitted from the boots to the hats , looked almost threateningly military and morose by comparison . |
| 15 | Also there was a marked tendency for all efficient personnel , especially Communists , to move quickly up the hierarchy from the villages to the guberniia centres . |
| 16 | The drive to an industrialised Britain brought many people from the villages to the towns , and alerted the authorities to the widespread presence of mentally handicapped people who had previously been contained within farming communities and cared for by their families . |
| 17 | Sound , like light , grew longer and clearer , lingering across the surface of the water : the boy hailing the other boatmen , voices from the villages on the banks , children splashing at the river 's edge , calling to one another . |
| 18 | In the distance a mess of lights were spread out across the face of the night like a shovelful of glowing cinders , flickering and scintillating in the currents of air rising from the villages in the plain between . |
| 19 | The retreat from the principles of the 1977 White Paper occurred in the context of the economic crisis of the 1970s , which culminated in the 1976 resort to the International Monetary fund . |
| 20 | In the next 20 years the NHS did not escape criticism from academic Fabians but it never reached the volume and intensity of the criticism which , for example , social security and income maintenance attracted as they appeared to retreat further and further away from the principles of the Beveridge Report . |
| 21 | In some cases it has not been clear from the notes to the accounts whether the directors consider that they have departed from a specific statutory rule and that the true and fair view override is being invoked . |
| 22 | The crucial difference between the Germans and the Poles who profited from the efforts of the Colonisation Commission and the Polish banks through the sale and resale of farms and estates was that , while the Germans would eventually sell up for good and move away westwards to retire on money invested in Germany 's growing industrial enterprises , the Poles would stay put , use their money to consolidate their farms and purchases , and deposit their savings in the Land Purchase Bank . |
| 23 | With difficulty — to judge from the efforts of the Catholic scholar Martin del Rio , who actually addressed the issue . |
| 24 | Apart from the efforts of the American embassy in London to explain British problems and points of view , the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) was active in promoting the view that — for all her weaknesses — Britain was an indispensable ally . |
| 25 | Midnight turned as the Captain moved through light beams spreading from the windows across the yard . |
| 26 | Sunlight streamed in from the windows above the gallery , bathing the polished panels of the walls in a warm glow . |
| 27 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 28 | Individuals were seen jumping from the windows of the buildings straggling the French and Soviet sectors of the city before they could be bricked up . |
| 29 | Soft lights glowed from the windows of the shops in Wine Street . |
| 30 | She sheltered in a summer-house twenty metres from the windows of the music room . |