Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] from [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The route : a complete crossing of the French Pyrenees from Hendaye-Plage on the Atlantic to Banyuls-Sur-Mer on the Mediterranean . |
| 2 | Third , there was another British vessel , the Sir Robert Sale , which was at the eastern , narrower end of the Straits , sixty-four kilometres from Krakatoa on the twenty-sixth , and attempted to sail westwards ( towards Krakatoa ) on the twenty-seventh , but was quite unable to do so . |
| 3 | They had to operate from a precariously-held line stretching 800 kilometres from Akyab on the Bay of Bengal to Ledo at the foot of the Tibetan mountains . |
| 4 | The Russian frontier , running some 1,450km/900mls from Memel on the Baltic Sea to the Bukovina in northern Romania , was highly vulnerable to a German attack southward from East Prussia , especially if this were matched by an Austrian advance northward from Galicia . |
| 5 | Such an act may well have provoked strong reaction in both ecclesiastical and lay circles , and Osred , exiled son of Alhred , was tempted back the following year from exile on the Isle of Man by the oaths of certain Northumbrian nobles ; but his supporters then deserted him and he was captured by King Aethelred and killed at Aynburg on 14 September 792 . |
| 6 | It also recorded over 2,000 inquiries from employers on the centre 's computers . |
| 7 | When I moved to Cornwall to live with them first , their home was a bracing , windswept ( take your pick ! ) clifftop cottage at Widemouth Bay , three miles from Bude on the North Cornish coast . |
| 8 | The algal bloom stretches for over 600 miles from Mungindi on the Queensland border to Wilcannia , New South Wales , and is spreading southwards towards the Murray river . |
| 9 | She need n't have worried ; a brief note from Dana on the kitchen table said that Roman was taking her out to dinner and that she was not to wait up , neither was she to wake Dana in the morning ; she would come for her fitting in the afternoon . |
| 10 | At the other end former Bangor striker Francis Smith , making his first appearance for Tobermore , went close after receiving a good ball from White on the right wing . |
| 11 | Thus the action failed and the case is authority for the immunity of an assignee of an equitable lease from liability on the covenants . |
| 12 | CANBERRA may seem an awful long way from exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons over the European Monetary System . |
| 13 | You will find us 9 miles from York , 11 miles from Malton on the road from the A64 to Sheriff Hutton , just along from the Blacksmiths Arms and Elm Tree Antiques . |
| 14 | Firbush Point Field Centre is situated 80 miles from Edinburgh on the south shore of Loch Tay . |
| 15 | The Honey Bee had taken ten hours from Troon on the Clyde coast to Ardrishaig ; the cruiser two hours . |
| 16 | Faced with a deepening penal crisis on the one hand , and continuing intransigence from sentencers on the other , there was growing pressure throughout the 1990s from a broad constituency — comprising not only penal reformers but also senior civil servants , prison visitors , and prison governors — for the government to accept the need for more effective techniques for the control of sentencing discretion than it had been prepared to concede in the past . |
| 17 | On the half-hour he got on the end of a short pass from Vialli on the edge of the penalty area and hit a fine shot that brought an equally fine save from Pumpido . |
| 18 | Gould 's brother-in-law 's station , 160 miles from Newcastle on the coast up the Hunter River at Yarrundi , far exceeded Gould 's expectations both in size and in beauty . |
| 19 | From the village of Derrylin — about twelve miles from Eniskellen on the Belturbet Road — you follow the Ulster Way eastwards . |
| 20 | These include : the postmodern as a tendency within the modern ; a notion of the ‘ sublime ’ and postmodernism 's related freedom from dependence on the concept of totality ; a distinction between the postmodern conceived in terms of the externalised and impersonal as against a view of the modern as characterised by the internal and ‘ impressionist ’ ; and a claim that it is the characteristic of the postmodern to signify figurally rather than discursively ( ? ) . |
| 21 | The presence of a very occasional lesser white-fronted goose from Scandinavia on the reclaimed land of the Severn is well-known to have been a crucial factor in Sir Peter Scott 's choice of site for the new wildfowl refuge and research station he had dreamed of creating during the War . |
| 22 | He set off again almost as soon as he had returned to Hobart to make up for lost time on an overland expedition to Launceston and George Town , 60 miles from Hobart on the North Coast of the island . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the inhabitants of Nouvion — two hours from Boulogne on the main road to Paris — remain unaware of the fame their village 's name enjoys in Britain . |
| 24 | The village is 14 miles from Hull and eight miles from Withernsea on the east coast . |
| 25 | In the little office set aside for him , Wycliffe brooded over the accumulating mound of paper , the expanding case file , and among the rest a preliminary report from Franks on the autopsy . |
| 26 | The largest cost is associated with the most exothermic stacking interactions , while the range of values is consistent with earlier conclusions from data on the fusion of hydrocarbon chains ( lower value ) , and with entropy changes in covalent isomerisations of small molecules involving severe restrictions ( upper value ) . |
| 27 | It is not the student returning but a flood of visitors — a lady coming to teach Hungarian to students about to visit Budapest , a social worker sorting out a student with severe memory loss whose phone is about to be cut off , a personnel officer from the Civic Offices to recruit potential employees from students on the scheme and one or two others who just seem to have wandered in off the streets . |