Example sentences of "from the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |
| 2 | Thus the very vibrancy of Impressionist or Pointillist paintings may well result from the discrimination of thousands of similar bits of colour data , all emerging as dots of similar hue , brightness , size or shape so that each momentarily stands out as a mini-figure against all the rest . |
| 3 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 4 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 5 | All these may be part of a general attractiveness but they may be quite separate from the priorities of the job . |
| 6 | Hydra sprawls from the boundary of Canis Minor through to the south of Corvus and Virgo . |
| 7 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 8 | THE woods seem but just freed from the horror of primeval sea , if that is not primeval sea washing their bases . |
| 9 | Protect your family from the horror of a house fire — this Sleep-safe Smoke Alarm is yours FREE with your Reader 's Digest DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN . |
| 10 | He lashed out at it and sent it flying down the road , away from the trio of kids . |
| 11 | The next example shows double canon by inversion from the Trio of the Minuet of Mozart 's Serenade No. 12 ( the entire piece is canonic ) . |
| 12 | From rates derived from the occupiers of property . |
| 13 | This is a race ; in Europe it will have taken 35 years from the signing of the Treaty of Rome to attain the European Community 's planned single market in 1992 . |
| 14 | Duration : SHALL BE FOR TWO YEARS FROM THE SIGNING OF THIS AGREEMENT . |
| 15 | Marketing activity is being targeted on central and eastern Europe and the Company considering setting up an office in Seoul to take advantage of new business opportunities which could arise from the signing of a bilateral agreement between the UK and Korean Governments . |
| 16 | What puts Monteverdi 's Orfeo ( produced at Mantua , 1607 ) in quite a different class from the operas of Peri and Caccini or the Dafne ( 1608 ) ( again on Rinuccini 's text ) of a younger Florentine , Marco da Gagliano ( C. 1575–1642 ) , is quite simply that it is the work of an immeasurably more gifted musician . |
| 17 | Mr Robert Maxwell suggests that some aspects of the successful ambulatory care initiative in New York could be adapted by the capital 's primary care providers while the secondary services might learn from the rationalisation of specialist services in Paris . |
| 18 | Miss Margaret Medlow ( now Mrs Johnston ) retired from the Superintendency of the Primary Sunday School , thus ending an association of over 50 years with the Sunday Schools . |
| 19 | The United Liberation Front of Assam is a Marxist outfit operating from the jungles of Myanmar ( Burma ) , and wants an independent country for the Assamese people . |
| 20 | These days the top schools send their cricket and rugby teams to Africa , New Zealand and the West Indies ; the school choir may tour Japan , while geography and biology pupils go on fact-finding expeditions anywhere from the jungles of Borneo to the Himalayas . |
| 21 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Stockdale had taken control of Eagle Trust in the wake of the resignation and subsequent departure from the country of John Ferriday , and had discovered that £13.7m of funds could not be accounted for . |
| 23 | No doubt the young Englishman was unpleasant , no doubt the Italian tomcats are exceedingly shallow — but the picture that emerges most convincingly is of a sensitive Englishman parted from the country of his birth and not quite within that of his choice . |
| 24 | Jesus had just returned from the country of the Gerasenes . |
| 25 | Parliament listed a number of goods , known as the ‘ enumerated articles ’ , which the colonies were not allowed to send anywhere outside the empire , and which were to be carried out only in ships from England or from the country of origin . |
| 26 | This organisation happily ploughs a furrow totally at odds with the notion of free trade , by making it as difficult as Possible for non-German companies to sell their wares in Germany without DIN approval — even where EEC law says that the only approval necessary is from the country of origin . |
| 27 | Do not lean backwards or jerk the barbell upwards as this will put great strain on the lower back area and detract from the development of the biceps . |
| 28 | MRS THATCHER will fly to Strasbourg for the two-day European summit tonight with no intention of making a conciliatory gesture over the Social Charter or economic integration to lessen the likelihood of Britain being isolated from the development of the rest of the community . |
| 29 | For over twenty years from the development of the first military reactors at the end of the Second World War , the nuclear industry continued to experiment and expand against a background of general public approval . |
| 30 | The other approach was to switch the emphasis away from the development of new sources of electricity supply to the issue of how the demand for power could be controlled in the first place . |