Example sentences of "from the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was not bashfulness that made her avert her eyes ; it was a deeper , stronger feeling : one that she tried to hide not only from the watchful T'ang , but from herself . |
| 2 | In Saudi Arabia Baker met with foreign ministers from the six GCC countries and Egypt and Syria , who issued a joint statement expressing their appreciation for Bush 's March 6 speech and its " positive treatment " to the Palestinian question . |
| 3 | Chiefs of Staff from the six GCC states held an extraordinary meeting in the Omani capital , Muscat , on Aug. 26-27 , to review preliminary plans for the formation of a joint defence force in the Gulf . |
| 4 | Now there was a double challenge in the 200 metres from the young Ade Mafe , Olympic finalist and European Junior Champion , and Linford . |
| 5 | What differences follow , for example , from the young Elvis Presley starting out from printed song-copies but slowly transforming them in lengthy sessions in Sam Phillips 's Sun studio , as against Lennon and McCartney taking mostly orally worked-out ideas to George Martin who then might transform them through literate methods — for instance , the addition of written parts ? |
| 6 | The pressure finally told when Champness converted East Grinstead 's tenth penalty corner , but it was a spirited performance from the young Holywood team and a not so impressive display from the visitors who were due to face Lisnagarvey this afternoon and Banbridge tomorrow at Blaris . |
| 7 | The severity may have had a cause hidden from the young Ramsey . |
| 8 | And at the heart of all this is a thuggish rock ‘ n ’ roll band not too distant from the young Who or Slade — though historians would prefer The Stooges — singing songs about laziness , boredom , theft and sekshual anguish . |
| 9 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |
| 10 | What a wonderful prospect for piano buffs who for far too long have had to put up with hurriedly performed and inadequately recorded Vox recordings from the young Michael Ponti and others in a ragbag assortment of concerti with ‘ mix and match ’ orchestras and conductors . |
| 11 | This business is therefore defined as falling outside regulated business ( see page 23 above ) and is exempted from the general COB Rules ; the exemption forms part of the foreign business carve-out . |
| 12 | Hailing from the Swiss Alps it prefers rich soil and full sun . |
| 13 | The French Brown originates from the Swiss Brown , imported since 1827 and with its own breed society and herdbook in France since 1911 ; its appearance and qualities are described in the Alpine section , which also includes details of the Simmental group . |
| 14 | Excluded from the technical Pacific , these are now part of the real Pacific . |
| 15 | Their style of life was not much different from the ordinary Zuwaya : they had perhaps recently acquired better housing , but the new villas were not segregated ; food was no more generous , nor more delicate in a rich man 's house ; schooling and medical treatment were uniform . |
| 16 | As the VSG gene promoter directs alpha-amanitin resistant polymerase activity ( 32 ) , this suggested that transcription of the integrated plasmid was not originating from the internal VSG promoter , but from the upstream tubulin promoter . |
| 17 | Maybe this is all that is needed to re-ignite calls for a review of the welfare benefits which single parents receive — a review actually under way earlier this year , but thankfully kicked into touch by Tony Newton when he took over from the hapless John Moore as Social Security Secretary last Summer . |
| 18 | It 's not far from the Imperial Francis . |
| 19 | To the north-west of Nuneaton , multidisciplinary resurveys coupled with detailed work in quarries around Hartshill and Stockingford have shown that the so-called Boundary Fault that separates the Precambrian and Lower Cambrian successions from the overlying Triassic rocks is in reality an unconformity , thus indicating that hard-rock resources in the area are significantly greater than hitherto supposed . |
| 20 | Thus in Arizona , the Redwall Limestone of this age forms the steepest cliff in the Grand Canyon ( plate 1.9 ) , and the name refers to the red staining of the rock from the overlying Permo-Triassic red beds , just as in the Avon Gorge at Bristol , the topmost Carboniferous Limestone is reddened by the overlying Permo-Triassic deposits . |
| 21 | Hanley made two fine saves from the dangerous Mackey . |
| 22 | Few fossils from the critical Oligocene epoch ( 24–36 million years ) are known , and even fewer are described . |
| 23 | This technique was applied to data from the 1981 Greater London Transportation Survey , which were just becoming available , and the corresponding 1971 survey . |
| 24 | The perception of shape and pattern in apparently disorderly ( but dynamic and mobile ) things is usually mentioned with reference to visual perception , and it is commented on in the sciences and the arts alike : it is prominent , for example , in the notebooks of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins ( J. Milroy , 1977 ) , in his careful descriptions of cloud formations , waterfalls and other dynamic phenomena , and much of the poet 's imagery depends on a kind of ‘ observer 's paradox ’ ( rather different from the familiar Labov version ) , through which a dynamic phenomenon can nonetheless appear to have stable shapes and patterns within it and , conversely , a static phenomenon may appear to contain mobility . |
| 25 | As well as Winemark 's specially selected own label wines , several of which were awarded medals , a broad range of wines was entered ranging from the humblest Vin de Pays to the grandest Grand Crus and the Red Wine of the Year — Albor Rioja Tinto 1991 , a firm wine coated with black cherry aromas and flavours and lots of fruit echoing in the finish . |
| 26 | There are exceptions to this rule , for example large fish can be fed on chopped horse 's heart and the okapi ( similar to the giraffe ) could be fed on evergreen oak leaves when in the wild it would eat vegetation from the hot Congo forests . |
| 27 | This modification can also be derived from the modified PRS rule of Section 3.3 |
| 28 | Inclusion of the word " federal " , which the UK government insisted had connotations in English , if not in other EC languages , of a " superstate " was described by the Independent of June 18 as " effectively the price being demanded of Britain , incidentally also of France , for insisting between them that the two main new areas for common action — foreign and security policies and judicial affairs — should be kept separate from the traditional EC constitutional structure as laid down in the Treaty of Rome [ see pp. 15951-59 ] " . |
| 29 | Mr Shuker wants students of all ages and backgrounds to have access to courses at times which suit them and to see a move away from the traditional September to June academic year . |
| 30 | Led by one of the finest clarinet players of that era , the band now has a broad repertoire , ranging from the traditional New Orleans and Dixieland styles of small band jazz to the music of the swing era of the 1940s when swing , boogie and jive were kings . |