Example sentences of "from [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a re-run Senate by-election in Lublin on June 11 , the Citizens ' Committee candidate won almost 51 per cent of the vote against his opponent from Private Farmers ' Solidarity who took just over 48 per cent . |
| 2 | But , as Tylor noticed , while some cultures prescribed very strong avoidance behaviour between sons and parents-in-law , others were more concerned to keep daughters and parents-in-law from each others ' throats . |
| 3 | If we can keep 'Lash and Bash from each others ' throats for long enough there 'll be another round-up of reader queries next issue . |
| 4 | Charities give varying reasons for entering the Annual Report and Accounts Award , from wanting to know if their report 's overall structure is moving in the right direction , to learning from specific judges ' criticisms , but in the end , they all boil down to a desire to improve the standard of their accounts . |
| 5 | These intermediaries are immediately faced with questions about how to distinguish consumer preferences from professional carers ' judgements of need and of which , among them , to give most weight to . |
| 6 | The study sample did not differ significantly from the totality of new referrals in terms of age distribution , sex ratio , or referring agency , apart from having a lower proportion of referrals from old peoples ' homes ( 8/100 v 10/378 ; χ 2 =4.87 ; p<0.05 ) . |
| 7 | The decision is made harder by the knowledge that almost all terminally ill patients are receiving medication and may be suffering pain and distress , all of which could affect their mental competence , quite apart from some doctors ' reluctance to ‘ give up . ’ |
| 8 | — from German Students ' War Letters ( ed . |
| 9 | The evidence we have from foreign firms ' experiences in Kenya bear out de Soto 's thesis : state intervention can be costly and corrupting . |
| 10 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 11 | Such a child might be subject to a rehabilitation period of ten years — the same period as for an adult sentenced to from six months ' to thirty months ' imprisonment , the longest period covered by the Act . |
| 12 | And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall . |
| 13 | He first became a builder in 1953 , in Communist Czechoslovakia , after being released from three years ' working in the uranium mines of Jachymov as part of a five year prison sentence for political offences . |
| 14 | The revision phase of the operation differs from the initial phase in that it takes account of weaknesses ( and strengths ) inherent in the stock from previous years ' book buying , and also in that it provides indications of the need for weeding the stock of individual categories , in addition to purchasing . |
| 15 | Section two , there was a revised estimate for nineteen ninety two ninety three and there are two main points to mention , firstly members will see that the revised estimates in total are less than the original estimates and this is because affording interest rates have made it cheaper to service the outstanding debt from previous years ' capital programmes . |
| 16 | G cells developed in the antrum from 18 weeks ' gestation and their distribution did not differ between the fetal and infant stomachs . |
| 17 | Provisions for parental leave range from 18 months ' low flat rate pay in Germany , or six months ' leave at 30 per cent of earnings in Italy , to three months ' unpaid leave in Greece . |
| 18 | Thus the criminal law defines only some types of avoidable killing as murder : it excludes , for example , deaths resulting from acts of negligence , such as employers ' failure to maintain safe working conditions in factories and mines ( Swartz 1975 ) ; or deaths resulting from an organization 's reluctance to maintain appropriate safety standards ( Erickson 1976 ) ; or deaths which result from governmental agencies ' giving environmental health risks a low priority ( Liazos 1972 ) ; or deaths resulting from drug manufacturers ' failure to conduct adequate research on new chemical compounds before embarking on aggressive marketing campaigns ( Silverman and Lee 1974 ) ; or deaths from a dangerous drug that was approved by health authorities on the strength of a bribe from a pharmaceutical company ( Braithwaite and Geis 1981 ) ; or deaths resulting from car manufacturers refusing to recall and repair thousands of known defective vehicles because they calculate that the costs of meeting civil damages will be less ( Swigert and Farrell 1981 ) ; and in most jurisdictions deaths resulting from drunken or reckless people driving cars with total indifference to the potential cost in terms of human lives are also excluded . |
| 19 | close oneself to awareness from other viewpoints ; indeed , if full awareness were , required for the intelligent choosing of means , our thesis would invite the rejoinder : - ‘ If ‘ Be good' ’ follows from ‘ ‘ Be aware from all viewpoints ' ’ , why does not the urgent need to be aware of the people with whom we deal compel us all to be moral ? ’ |
| 20 | I think that 's true of the women , but of course an awful lot of our young men erm come from all boys ' schools and quite a lot of our young women from all girls ' schools , so this is the first time , when they get to Oxford , that they are interacting with each other , on a day-to-day basis I should say , and I think that in itself will they are not sure how to act towards each other and there 's going to be confusions . |
| 21 | I think that 's true of the women , but of course an awful lot of our young men erm come from all boys ' schools and quite a lot of our young women from all girls ' schools , so this is the first time , when they get to Oxford , that they are interacting with each other , on a day-to-day basis I should say , and I think that in itself will they are not sure how to act towards each other and there 's going to be confusions . |
| 22 | He also announced the cancellation as of Jan. 1 of the collection of RPT membership dues by means of deductions at source from all workers ' salaries . |
| 23 | Stukeley in his diary for 1745 , however , claimed that the medieval university evolved from All Saints ' College , established in 1109 at Wothorpe , by Joffied , Abbot of Crowland Abbey . |
| 24 | Deductions are made from 52,000 Scots ' benefits to pay off fuel debts . |
| 25 | It was expected that these service engineers would have sufficient parts from their own stocks to do simple repairs , and the theory was that major parts could be provided from Argent Distributors ' warehouse within 48 hours . |
| 26 | Recognisable acid fast bacilli were identified microscopically in 10 of the 31 long term cultures , originating from 29 patients ' tissues . |
| 27 | Apart from improving villagers ' gardens , the Conservation Group has a unifying effect . |
| 28 | The balance of the field will be selected from those Tours ' leading money winners . |
| 29 | JELLYFISH KISS ‘ Big Driving EP ’ new three-tracker from Peel favourites , currently working on their next LP and a track from Imaginary Records ' forthcoming Monkees tribute album |
| 30 | It seems to be confirmed , moreover , by the resemblance between the meccanico ostinato figure at Ellen 's entrance after the " Old Joe " round ( originally the " away from tidal waves ' motif ) and the crapshooting ostinato in Act One of Porgy , among other similarities of detail . |