Example sentences of "from their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal moment I 'm left with is a shot of two smoky essences in bottles , the sound of dry autumn leaves rustling through a chill night wind , and the voices of Cecil Kellaway and Veronica Lake , father and daughter , conversing from their adjacent bottles . |
| 2 | For example , if mutations reduce adult survival 16 times more than they reduce juvenile survival ( that is , v= 16 ) , a net mutation rate reduces juvenile and adult survival from their optimal values ( 0.945 , 0.505 ) to ( 0.866 , 0.155 ) ; if the mutations only affected adult survival , a mutation rate U 0.067 would reduce adult survival to zero . |
| 3 | But the testing time has now arrived ; because for the first time posts of leadership in humanities departments are being taken up by a generation of scholars who have been familiar with the computer from their earliest schooldays , scholars who are neither frightened by , nor over-respectful of , the new powers which the computer has brought . |
| 4 | In what is heralded as a vote of conscience , any conscience ought to be deeply troubled by the agonising choice between respecting human embryos from their earliest moments and responding to the plight of infertile couples . |
| 5 | Yet the evidence from their earliest word uses , their requests for the names of things , and their repairs to their own utterances , all indicate that they opt for Conventionality as they begin to use their first language . |
| 6 | From their earliest days they were battling it out — sometimes for the same parts . |
| 7 | Fire had been a constant hazard in woollen mills from their earliest days , as a result of the large amount of grease and oils used gradually soaking into the wooden floors . |
| 8 | 16.8 We hope parents will share books with their children from their earliest days , read aloud to them , and talk about the stories they have enjoyed together . |
| 9 | Opposite From their earliest days Cooks used the power of advertising to promote new ideas . |
| 10 | From their earliest days the local groups relied upon the cooperation of schools and education authorities , and to a lesser extent club workers , to supply them with the necessary information concerning pupils who were about to leave school . |
| 11 | As usual the author traces the history of the stations from their earliest days , 1891 in the case of Pwllheli , and has located some early photographs including one of the unusual ‘ tubular ’ lifeboat which served at this station on the Lleyn Peninsula for a short time after it was first opened . |
| 12 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 13 | Men are taught from their earliest days to value autonomy , the right to do what they want to do , when they want to do it . |
| 14 | Essentially , people in their work roles are caused to respond from their unconscious world of internal objects . |
| 15 | This project of revitalising the moral ground of liberalism was particularly important at a time when industrialisation had destroyed traditional sources of social cohesion by cutting individuals off from their fellow citizens and reducing their opportunities for self-expression through economic specialisation . |
| 16 | Forthright debate flourished and the 85 seminar members were treated to a variety of views from the speakers and from their fellow members . |
| 17 | Ideal for students wishing to spend their time at a different location away from their fellow countrymen . |
| 18 | The applause from their fellow athletes a welcome sound some had never been fortunate enough to enjoy before |
| 19 | Cox 's subjects were , by any definition , outstandingly creative , to the point of being almost qualitatively distinguishable from their fellow men . |
| 20 | And ‘ if the tam batting second has not had the opportunity to complete the required number of overs their target score will be the runs scored by the team batting first from their equivalent number of highest scoring overs . ’ |
| 21 | Teachers ' union officials admit that many teachers earn more from private tutoring than from their official jobs . |
| 22 | Wasps can only wish then that this weekend 's activities are as fruitful , the students putting on a brave show with two second-half tries from their dashing wing , Andy Parton , but Wasps — fielding only two of this season 's first-teamers — winning with something to spare thanks largely to the goal-kicking of Paddy Young . |
| 23 | It also , by the simple fact of providing a space in the school day where girls are separated from boys , can relieve the stresses for girls who may be suffering harassment from their male peers — in or out of the classroom . |
| 24 | My work was during my student days , when much hampered with other cares , and I can excuse them for not thinking it what they would expect from their future minister . |
| 25 | Personally , I am not in favour of mammoth jail sentences except for the deserving few — and that 's not so much a matter of punishment as a means of keeping society free from their future depredations . |
| 26 | This lack of individual and cultural expression may detract from their future collectability , but as furnishing items they can be extremely attractive , well made and comparatively inexpensive . |
| 27 | Even those who are active in the Party expressed concern at the diversion of energies from their primary task of building the Church . |
| 28 | Many of the costs are hidden in the time of teachers who are distracted from their primary task by the managerial and administrative requirements of examinations . |
| 29 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 30 | Many postgraduate students will have proceeded without interruption from their primary degrees ; many other participants are seeking career-enhancing or professional development qualifications by either full-time or part-time attendance after deferring the desire to seek postgraduate entry for some years . |