Example sentences of "or from [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the challenge to the court came , it was not from the heirs of the rebels or from the discontented northerners , but from the queen . |
| 2 | ‘ I oppose the amendments and I will vote against them irrespective of whether they come from the Government or from the honourable members whose names appear on the amendment paper , although a glance at these names makes my blood run cold ... |
| 3 | Then you had to show the clothes when the buyers came in — people from America or from the grand shops . |
| 4 | It was difficult to determine whether the explosions were from the German shells or from the Allied shells passing over , with the usual one or two dropping short . |
| 5 | Alkaline waters may come from hard-water sources or from the softening processes . |
| 6 | The particular accommodation offered will inevitably depend on what is available to the local authority from its own resources , or from the accessible resources of others . |
| 7 | Did they learn from the professors or from the other participants ? |
| 8 | Distantly she could feel the tremor of a heart still recognizably her own — though whether it shook with terror or from the first stirrings of a ferocious excitement was hard to distinguish now . |
| 9 | The range of coins available was sufficient for even the smallest transactions , and we can glimpse from reading a Latin novel such as The Golden Ass of Apuleius or from the many papyri which have survived from Egypt that these societies used coinage very much as we do . |
| 10 | From 1334 to 1343 the clergy voted for no fewer than eight tenths , or from the combined provinces — and at a conservative estimate — roughly £140,000 ; in the next decade almost as much , seven tenths or some £124,000 were conceded ; during the second half of the 1350s only two tenths were granted , £35,000 ; the peace of Brétigny brought a respite from royal taxation until 1370 , after which until the end of the reign £100,000 was raised by traditional subsidies , £50,000 was sought as a special grant in 1371 ( though little of this was effectively collected ) and a graduated poll tax was imposed in 1377 . |
| 11 | From Merligen ( or from the Beatus Caves ) an expeditious but interesting return to Thun can be made by car or by the bus service noted above . |
| 12 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |
| 13 | Mentally disordered offenders who have been admitted to ordinary hospitals from the courts , or from prison , or from the Special Hospitals such as Broadmoor may require such a period of care in conditions of medium security . |
| 14 | Apprehension about the Spaniards turned out to be unjustified ; they had serious problems with the Dutch , who were moving forward in the West Indies , and also with the trade winds , that blew from the east and made it very hard for ships from the Spanish Main or from the larger islands like Cuba to reach the smaller islands . |
| 15 | Whether of the early Imperial centuries or from the later periods of the fourth and fifth centuries , Aphrodisian portrait sculpture stands out among the best , especially in the intensity displayed by the late-Roman physiognomies . |
| 16 | 2 the inner half severed medially of the internal non-load bearing walls that divide the Premises from the adjoining unit[s] in the Centre or from the Retained Parts |
| 17 | In addition , two other courses are taken which may be chosen from a wide range of other science subjects or from the Social Sciences or Arts . |
| 18 | The Gardens of England and Wales , detailing open days , is available from bookshops , or from The National Gardens Scheme , Hatchlands Park , East Clandon , Guildford , Surrey GU4 7RT ( 0483 211535 ) , price £2.75 inc p & p . |
| 19 | More than once Miller emphasised that roses , being natives of northern countries or from the cold mountains of warmer ones , relish their freedom . |
| 20 | However , the organism was not cultured from the spirometry handpiece or from the wooden arms of a chair gripped by each of the patients during spirometry . |
| 21 | How much this resulted from Cruickshank 's own approach to maintaining contact and diplomacy with individual people and concerns — he 's more generally credited with being a man for the ‘ big picture ’ — or from the excessive demands put on anyone trying to run and change such a vast and politically sensitive organisation , is open to debate . |