Example sentences of "from the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the northern produce has come from the subpolar maritime fringe , notably whalebone and whale oil from the open sea , seal oil , hides and furs from islands and sea ice , fish , and , most recently , shrimps from the continental shelf and slopes . |
| 2 | The latter , represented by people like Yves Congar , Henri de Lubac and Louis Bouyer , appealed away from the post-medieval neo-scholastic synthesis of contemporary official Catholic theology to a far more creative use of biblical and patristic sources ; it accepted the rightness of part of the classical Protestant critique of Roman Catholicism ; it fully adhered to the highest standards of modern scholarship , but in a really quite traditional way . |
| 3 | When they tried to stop him from taking into the colony a youth from the Political Special Section of the Army First Reserves , he appealed over their heads to the Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ( Rabkrin ) , which came down on his side . |
| 4 | Vlok said that the move was a further effort to " remove the police from the political playing field " . |
| 5 | This has been a very busy year and the committee has been lucky with the commitment of its Vice Chairmen and members who of necessity reflect a microcosm of the Bar from the young criminal practitioner to the experienced commercial silk . |
| 6 | Ancestral voices whisper from the young dry garden hedge , as Steve starts up his Ford Cortina . |
| 7 | ‘ It will do for starters , ’ Yanto replied , and ordered two pints of half and half cider from the young pleasant-faced landlord . |
| 8 | Apart from the possible financial hardship of retirement many find it hard to adjust to having little to do . |
| 9 | Although The Art Newspaper has written extensively during the last few months about the problems the international art trade will be facing in just over half a year from now , I nevertheless want to bring to your attention some other serious difficulties which the art market will have to confront , issues which are quite separate from the general economic malaise affecting business at the moment . |
| 10 | Of course , this involves a departure from the general subjective principle of criminal liability , since it involves imposing a duty on the defendant to ask about the victim 's consent before continuing with his conduct . |
| 11 | As already indicated , JIT stemmed from the general Japanese philosophy of continual improvement . |
| 12 | Advice about eligibility for registration with the Council may be obtained from the General Medical Council . |
| 13 | SCIENTISTS from the General Electric Company in New York have come up with a way of measuring how much charge is left in a lead-acid battery . |
| 14 | Karajan was by instinct and training a man of the theatre and it is another of those paradoxes surrounding his career that this central aspect of his art has to some extent been obscured from the general public gaze . |
| 15 | And apart from the glazed doting madness in their eyes . |
| 16 | There were reports in mid-February that leaders from the 17-party Joint Action Committee of the Iraqi Opposition ( JACIO ) established in Damascus in December 1990 [ see p. 37927 ] and the pro-Western Free Iraq Council ( FIC ) formed in London on Feb. 9 , had gathered in the Saudi capital , Riyadh , to discuss the formation of a government-in-exile . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , representatives from the 17-party Joint Action Committee of the Iraqi Opposition ( JACIO ) [ see p. 37987 ] , meeting in Paris on May 6 , called for the establishment of democratic government and the removal of Saddam Hussein . |
| 18 | He hinted that she might even receive an honour from the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher if she gave her support . |
| 19 | Justin Lekhanya , who seized power in 1986 from the then Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan , was himself led into the studio of Radio Lesotho by troops on April 30 and made to broadcast his own resignation as Chairman of the six-member ruling Military Council . |
| 20 | The first 16 feet of ramp arrived from the then defunct skatepark in Wokingham in November 1979 . |
| 21 | Edinburgh , Glasgow , and London ( particularly Imperial College ) universities have all been involved in major research projects in this area , although the major structural problems had been elucidated in 1906 by scientists from the then Geological Survey of Scotland ( Peach and others . |
| 22 | I sought to score points earlier on the cavalier way in which previous Ministers dismissed the suggestions from the then Select Committee , by which we sought to limit the rate of increase in the residential care part of the Government 's budget . |
| 23 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 24 | Luhti bought the team this year from the Swiss slot-machine magnate Walter Brun , who had bought it from Bernie Ecclestone , the head of the Formula One Constructors ' Association ( Foca ) . |
| 25 | Those works derived from the broad Marxist tradition will pursue the theme of domination in capitalist societies , whilst pluralists will still shy away from generalizations , preferring detailed empirical work . |
| 26 | If this social ascendancy depended on land it was reinforced by the widespread rebuilding of country seats in the eighteenth century and the reordering of the ornamental parks which surrounded them ; the symmetrical English formality of the grander Tudor houses and gardens gave way to a new Italianate classicism which combined with an image of the countryside often quite distinct from the comparative agricultural disorder which remained outside the pales of their civilised owners . |
| 27 | All along the centre of the position the Dutch had collapsed , leaving a great inviting hole into which the French could swarm , yet from the far right flank there still came the sound of reassuring volleys , proof that Saxe-Weimar 's men were defending staunchly . |
| 28 | In their efforts to present a clear-cut conservative alternative to the liberal Democrats , the Republicans chose a candidate from the far right wing of the party , Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona . |
| 29 | Disenfranchisement in the first sense relates to the virtual exclusion of certain substantive issues from the ordinary political agenda . |
| 30 | However , in several ways Qaddafi departs from the ordinary Libyan image . |