Example sentences of "from the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Monday , more academics swam in Johnson 's travelling aquarium : Principal Campbell , Professor Ross and a Dr Gerard , who had ‘ come six miles from the country on purpose ’ . |
| 2 | Aquino also stated that Marcos remained banned from the country on " national interest and security grounds " , despite her frequently stated desire to return so that she could bury her husband 's body in his native soil . |
| 3 | On Jan. 16 Khaled was arrested by police , who found him walking in Brussels , but was released on instruction from the Foreign Ministry and expelled from the country on Jan. 23 . |
| 4 | It was maintained with local support for the next three years , then in 1975 it acquired a three-year grant from the Council on Learning Resources ( CLR ) . |
| 5 | The only opposition to replacing SERPS with occupational or personal pension provision came from the Treasury on the grounds of cost . |
| 6 | Mr Kirkwood ( Roxburgh & Berwickshire ) has accused the Government of pouring money down the drain after receiving figures from the Treasury on lost revenue . |
| 7 | The campaign groups should ideally be voices calling from the wilderness on behalf of the wilderness . |
| 8 | ‘ I want a full statement from the Chancellor on these revelations . ’ |
| 9 | In the Freddy dream , for example , death is obviously adminstered by the demon from the Nightmare On Elm Street movies . |
| 10 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 11 | The St Petersburg mayor , Anatoly Sobchak , made an individual request for food aid from the EC on Sept. 16 , and Ivan Silayev , chair of the Interim Economic Council , had asked for between ECU5,000 million and 6,000 million in aid from the EC on Sept. 9 , although it was unclear whether this was on behalf of all the republics or only the Russian Federation . |
| 12 | The St Petersburg mayor , Anatoly Sobchak , made an individual request for food aid from the EC on Sept. 16 , and Ivan Silayev , chair of the Interim Economic Council , had asked for between ECU5,000 million and 6,000 million in aid from the EC on Sept. 9 , although it was unclear whether this was on behalf of all the republics or only the Russian Federation . |
| 13 | Four republics : Bosnia-Hercegovina , Croatia , Macedonia and Slovenia were reported to have requested recognition from the EC on Dec. 24 . |
| 14 | Escalators carry foot passengers from the concourse on the ground floor to gangway level where a covered walkway leads to the ship gangway . |
| 15 | Speaking from the basilica on the site where the Virgin was said to have appeared in 1917 , he told a crowd of thousands that the Virgin was to be thanked for " leading nations towards liberty " — interpreted as a reference to the collapse of communist regimes in eastern Europe . |
| 16 | Apart from the ban on the export of antiques and other goods , these are likely to include increased customs controls and measures to stop other ‘ illegal transactions . ’ |
| 17 | Despite substantial losses resulting from the ban on exports to Iraq following that country 's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , tea exports rose 35 per cent in the second half of 1990 . |
| 18 | A Romanian Foreign Ministry spokesman on May 13 dissociated the government from the ban on the meeting , saying that it was a local government matter . |
| 19 | The IDA had now commissioned a report from the IIRS on the safe disposal of asbestos waste . |
| 20 | Sound , like light , grew longer and clearer , lingering across the surface of the water : the boy hailing the other boatmen , voices from the villages on the banks , children splashing at the river 's edge , calling to one another . |
| 21 | In Verbivore the focus is switched from the principles on which high technology is based to the media through which it is transmitted . |
| 22 | Behind this announcement is the political point emphasised in the February 1988 White Paper , the short-and-long term unemployed who are ‘ respectable ’ must be differentiated from the sign on and work ‘ unrespectable ’ . |
| 23 | The best eye-witness reports came from European officials living in the two important towns of Batavia and Buitenzorg , where there were even some useful scientific recording instruments — one of them at the Batavia town gasworks — and from the officers on board the various vessels that were on passage through the Straits at the time of the eruption . |
| 24 | Since it was impossible to guarantee that any section of normal roads would be free from other traffic , speeds were calculated from the video on four separate sections of road . |
| 25 | Another fine sight is Catrake Force , quickly reached from the cottages on the left at the bottom of the street in Keld . |
| 26 | In its prime the solid curtain-walled castle could not have been taken by storm up the sheer cliffs rising from the sea on three sides ; and a deep ditch hewn from the rock on the landward side made any surprise attack on the gatehouse or drum towers improbable . |
| 27 | The defending Englishmen were clustered in groups of three at intervals around thirty yards apart , strung out along the stockade itself and its command lookouts ; in the stream that passed through the settlement , and bounded the headland where Belmont 's Great House now commanded the rise , they stood in a double row to bar access to the settlement by that approach ; in the mangroves at the mouth of the stream two young sentries kept watch , though the prevailing easterly breeze rendered it unlikely , the English commanders decided , that the islanders ' attack would come from the sea on that shore . |
| 28 | ‘ If you do n't make more effort to be civil , I may regret fishing you from the sea on your arrival . |
| 29 | The east coast of the United Kingdom between Humberside and Norfolk was affected by an " acid mist " which blew in from the sea on Sept. 9 , 1989 , leading to some leaf loss from trees and the corrosion of aluminium instruments . |
| 30 | The city lies on rising ground , from the sea on the north side to hills on the south . |