Example sentences of "[noun] from [adj] [noun pl] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indications are that the situation has n't improved much , so any cash injection from new men on the board will go towards settling the debts . |
| 2 | The superbly ornamented gold drinking vessels from Mycenaean tombs on the Greek mainland ( fig. 18 ) remind us that the artificers of the Aegean world had already acquired almost all the basic skills involved in working precious metals . |
| 3 | Probably the most depressing words that have ever been pronounced about any slimming diet are those enthusiastic phrases from well-meaning medics on the lines of ‘ This is a diet that you can follow for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 4 | During the talks an agreement was reached to withdraw all armed forces from both countries from disputed areas on the Lao-Thai border , namely the districts surrounding the village of Ban Rom Klao , the scene of heavy fighting in late 1987 and early 1988 [ see p. 36292 ] , and the three villages of Ban Mai , Ban Klang and Ban Sawang , the scene of fighting in 1984 [ see p. 33662 ] . |
| 5 | The knots running crossways from small ridges on the warp strands , which makes them easy to count , and those running lengthways correspond to each individual weft yarn . |
| 6 | Superdrug says in the past the big perfume houses have refused to supply them out of ’ snobbishness , ’ so they 've now bought stocks from alternative suppliers on the continent . |
| 7 | The BBC is particularly singled out for criticism for its recent coverage and the exclusion of senior Presbyterian Church figures from televised discussions on the worsening political situation and from a BBC radio debate on Church representation on education boards . |
| 8 | Such lists as were drawn up by James are now thought to contain deliberate inaccuracies in details , such as the number of pages in certain books , thus enabling James to remove and offer pages from illuminated Qur'ans on the international market . |
| 9 | Her detailed report , which began with the call she had taken reporting the accident , included her call to the county ambulance , accounts from other men on the shop-floor , the foreman 's version of what happened , first aid given , and on-the-spot treatment that had been administered by the factory medical team . |
| 10 | Other storage solutions include hanging objects from hooks attached to the undersides of shelves or wall cupboards ; suspending objects from wooden slats on the wall using S-hooks ; and using wire baskets beneath shelves to give additional storage capacity . |
| 11 | The three states , now looking to the west for hard currency earnings , have the advantage of strategically vital port facilities and generous development support from Scandinavian neighbours on the Baltic . |
| 12 | In addition to borrowing money from the building society on the security of the property , the Hammonds raised money from other sources on the same security . |
| 13 | There is little exciting news from German publishers on the whole ; no experiments or adventures are in sight . |
| 14 | and the second reason is that we wish , we wish to take professional advice from experienced accountants on the merits or demerits of the structured settlement |
| 15 | I have received representations from various sources on the subject of a statutory payroll levy related to employers ' training expenditure . |
| 16 | The most notable feature of the river frontage is the ‘ L ’ shaped tidal defence wall built in 1986 to prevent flooding from tidal surges on the Humber estuary , at a cost of nearly £3 million . |
| 17 | Using an electromagnetic modelling method called method of moments , AEA Technology discovered that one particular antenna on a satellite was likely to be highly susceptible to interference from other antennas on the same satellite , and its design was adjusted during the initial design phase . |
| 18 | The Jacobite threat , which until the middle of the century seemed to all British statesmen very real , led to intensified efforts of this kind , with attempts to obtain keys to the cyphers used by foreign governments and to gather information from postal centres on the continent such as Danzig , Brussels , Leyden , Antwerp and Hamburg . |
| 19 | Will the Lord President urge the security services to concentrate their search for the alleged theft of information from hon. Members on the organisations that regularly spy on hon. Members , including the organisation that last week published a ludicrous volume full of slanders and innuendos about hon. Members ? |
| 20 | It can be proposed that the ‘ market room ’ ( on the platform ) for newcomers who have not generated completely new demand markets , is provided by their capture of markets from local firms on the platform . |
| 21 | ‘ For example , ’ he went on , ‘ The corporate plan of United Motors is to phase-out vehicle and component manufacture in the UK and import its requirements from new plants on the continent , from East Europe , the Far East — including Japan — and from the United States itself , with the loss of fifty thousand UK jobs , one hundred and fifty thousand if one includes jobs lost in the UK supplier chain . ’ |
| 22 | Our ships may be small , Mr. Mottram , but in the old days they were liners — that is , they made regular , scheduled runs from various ports on the Continent to the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | ‘ Object viewing ’ , whereby users assemble compound documents from various files on the desktop and , linked to this , file transfer . |
| 24 | The dangers of too close inspection are obvious , and Long Kin West especially calls for caution : this hole descends vertically for over 500 feet from a rock bridge across its top carrying a track from Cold Cotes on the old road . |
| 25 | The object of this project is to gather extensive material from Dutch archives on the largely unstudied aspects of Dutch government initiatives to defend and promote Dutch economic primacy in Europe and the wider world in the period 1650-1713 . |
| 26 | He suggested , ‘ with my tongue heavily in my cheek , ’ that family doctors should be subject to a parallel system in which independent assessors would move into a GP practice and interview patients about the efficiency of correspondence , with marks from fellow doctors on the reliability of diagnoses . |
| 27 | The turf , dense and springy after the summer 's rain , was rolled into even stripes which led the eye away to the pine woods in the middle distance ; the forest obscured what had once been an inspiring view of the valley of the Dee , but shielded the castle from curious passers-by on the road that followed the river banks . |