Example sentences of "[noun prp] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standard & Poor 's Corp says it has cut the rating on Tandy Corp 's and Tandy Credit Corp 's senior and shelf-registered debt to A-minus from single-A and their commercial paper ratings to A-2 from A-1 . |
| 2 | The agency also cut Tandy Corp 's subordinated debt and preferred stock to triple-B-plus from A-minus and Tandy Employee Share Ownership Plan 's senior notes to A-minus from single-A , affecting about $1,650m of debt . |
| 3 | He was imprisoned at Verdun from 1811 until his release in 1814 . |
| 4 | Thereafter he saw distinguished service in the Peninsular war in Portugal from 1809 under Sir Arthur Wellesley ( later first Duke of Wellington , q.v . ) . |
| 5 | Gen. Michel Aoun 's two-year-long rebellion finally ended in October when Hrawi invited Syrian forces to extract Aoun from Christian East Beirut . |
| 6 | With the help of Mick Neil from Imperial Pottery 's engraving department , George has designed a poster warning of the dangers of carbon monoxide fumes which will be displayed in all departments throughout the factory . |
| 7 | I must admit I did n't remember Neil from those Yeovil days when he turned up at Taunton as our newcomer in 1986 , ’ said Robinson . |
| 8 | A quarter of a century separates the birth of Mitterrand from that of de Gaulle but Mitterrand , like the latter ( and unlike Pompidou and Giscard ) was already a national political figure in the 1940S . |
| 9 | After 65 minutes , Green mishit a backpass and could only stand horrified as Hibberd pounced on the mistake and coolly slotted the ball past the stranded Burt from 20 yards . |
| 10 | Finds only Music Of The Pyrenees from last holiday , unplayed . |
| 11 | Philip Schofield of Going Live ! introduces a glittering range of children 's programmes , featuring well-known TV personalities and characters like John Noakes from Blue Peter , Noel Edmonds , Scott Tracey of Thunderbirds , Hammy Hamster and Zippy . |
| 12 | The sculpted figures of mineworkers with their lamps are the work of M. B. Braun from 1721–5 and are a salient reminder that without the silver mines of Jihlava and Kutná Hora royal patronage of the arts would not have been possible . |
| 13 | The relatives of both Leofsige , abbot of Ely from 1029 to 1044 , and of Ælfwine , bishop of Elmham in Cnut 's reign , granted estates in Norfolk , Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to Ely when their sons entered the monastery , and the Liber Eliensis says that it was Leofsige 's own policy to accept no monk who was not well-educated and of good birth , so that the church might be enriched by liberality . |
| 14 | The group included Gustav Husak , general secretary of the CPCz from 1969 to 1987 and President of the Republic from 1975 to 1989 ; Lubomir Strougal , federal Prime Minister from 1970 to 1988 and a former member of the CPCz presidium ; and Jan Fojtik , Karel Hoffmann , Alois Indra , Jozef Lenart and Miroslav Zavadi , all former members of the CPCz presidium . |
| 15 | ‘ Great numbers of visitors come to Tatton from urban areas . |
| 16 | This proposal for foreign guarantees against external interference in Afghanistan was intended to strengthen the current regime in that state by sealing off the contesting forces in Afghanistan from Western and Pakistani ‘ assistance ’ while legitimising the continuation of Soviet ‘ assistance ’ . |
| 17 | Table 9.5 Personal Social Services for children aged 5–17 : contributions ( in pounds per child aged 5–17 ) to GRE from lone-parent families , assessed at average values for Inner London |
| 18 | This species has been recorded from off Madeira south to Angola from 640–1440 m . |
| 19 | Samuel anoints David , and we read that ‘ the Spirit of the Lord came mightily ( literally ‘ leaped ’ ) upon David from that day forward' ( l Sam . |
| 20 | Dundee yesterday signed Lionel David from French Second Division club La Rochelle . |
| 21 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 22 | The case was concerned with a claim by the Secretary of State for an injunction restraining Hoffmann-La Roche from charging prices for certain drugs in excess of those specified in an Order , approved by both Houses of Parliament , made following an enquiry and report by the Monopolies Commission in which the Commission concluded that the prices charged by Hoffmann-La Roche were excessive . |
| 23 | The winner was 15-year-old Sarah Hardy from Old Alresford , a student at Perin 's School . |
| 24 | Buy a Goblin Steamatic from any retailer between 14 March 1991 and 30 April 1991 . |
| 25 | They visit Winson House , High Street , Petersfield , from 1.30 to 4 p.m. on Mondays ; Barbados House , Bordon , from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursdays , and the Forest Community Centre also in Bordon from 10 a.m. to 12.30 on Tuesdays . |
| 26 | The liens will be open to Kathleen from 12.30 tomorrow . |
| 27 | This year 's International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show takes place at the Seventh Regiment Armory from 24 to 29 October . |
| 28 | The gate may have been down at Sanford Smith 's fourth annual Works on Paper exhibition in New York 's Park Avenue Armory from 3 to 5 April , but most of the participants had little to complain about . |
| 29 | The Art Dealers Association of America holds its fifth annual show , The Art Show , at the Armory from 25 February to 1 March . |
| 30 | FASTRAK ACCESS CODE : AMS from 1 January 1992 |