Example sentences of "from the [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return the press , from tabloids to music magazines , got vicarious thrills from the Mondays ' precarious lifestyle , great copy in a dull climate . |
| 2 | Aristotle noted a distinction between income from the public land and that from the citizens ' private estates . |
| 3 | Whether or not it is correct , it quite clearly differs from the parents ' explicit account of their perception of how the decision has been reached and the implications it will have for George . |
| 4 | The silent war between the United Company of Undertakers and the Worshipful Company of Upholders did not last long , for by 1748 the imprimatur had been dropped from the Upholders ' blank funeral invitations and we no longer hear from the United Company of Undertakers again . |
| 5 | The puppets then begin enacting some scenes from the adventurers ' recent exploits in the Castle , growing progressively more sarcastic and venomous in their dialogue . |
| 6 | Sweeping up from the adventurers ' blind side ( either a ridge line above their heads or out of the mist ) comes a ragged flock of Carrion , one of these undead birds for every two adventurers ( but at least three in any event ) . |
| 7 | Soon after completing The Death of Nelson Minton asked Ronald Searle to sign David Tindle 's application for money from the Artists ' General Benevolent Institution . |
| 8 | Starting from the artists ' personal standpoints , the exhibition shows the diversity of artistic perception of reality today . |
| 9 | ‘ Red light ’ girls offered massages for £25 and full sex for £60 at the Eclipse Health Club just yards from the cops ' Blue Lamp bar , Cardiff Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 10 | These losses all exceed what would be ‘ expected ’ from the areas ' detailed industrial structure ( which would have forecast the greatest rates of decline in Gwent , West Glamorgan and South Yorkshire ) , and the balances can be mapped as ‘ differential shifts ’ ( Figure 5.3B ) . |
| 11 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 12 | What is questionable is whether they make the best use of this information , particularly of that which , if they were competent to extract it , could be deduced from the companies ' published accounts . |
| 13 | But continued success in cutting tax rates is at risk from the Tories ' present policies . |
| 14 | Quite apart from the borders ' incessant claims on the tsar 's attention , they tied down his troops . |
| 15 | The union side at this level is composed of senior officers and lay negotiators from the unions ' national executive committees . |
| 16 | Equally disappointing is the exaggerated sharpness and presence of the bass-line articulation by the cello and organ in the Op. 1 No. 12 Largo e puntato , which distracts the listener from the violins ' ravishing suspensions . |
| 17 | The following is from the Guerrillas ' recent ‘ Letter to Uncle Sam and the News Media ’ : |
| 18 | With a flourish he produced another motley collection of spinning components , this time cobbled together from the Chelonians ' technical stores . |
| 19 | In an attempt to distinguish their notion of topic from the grammarians ' sentential topic , Keenan & Schieffelin ( 1976 ) used the term discourse topic . |
| 20 | The Pahls in their study had quite a high rate of non-co-operation : twenty of the group of 113 managers whom they wanted to study did not complete the questionnaire ( although the response rate was higher from the wives ' postal questionnaire ) ; of the twenty-nine couples who were asked to give home interviews , six refused and six did not answer the letter . |
| 21 | But the plan has drawn criticism from the Palestinians ' Arab peace talks partners , who accuse Arafat of lack of consultation , and from hardline Palestinian groups who denounce it as a sell-out . |
| 22 | Louis did not at all resemble Dahl 's amiable dream dispenser as Preston remembered him from the twins ' illustrated paperback . |